Events Articles

Penn College's Walk-It-Out Committee (with the help of Peggy A. Barbour, Advisement Center specialist) is holding a basket raffle to benefit the American Cancer Society. The raffle features a lottery wreath and more than 16 baskets of various themes. The Walk-It-Out Basket Raffle runs through April 20 in the Bush Campus Center lobby.

The Penn College Chess Club held itssecond successful spring tournamentfrom 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. March 31in the Bush Campus Center. Ten players competed in two sections, Open and Student, playing five rounds using a Game/30, 5-second-delay clock setting. Joseph Mucerino, who holds a U.S.

Le Jeune Chef Restaurant experts, as well as faculty/staff mentors and sponsors, guided an impressive assemblage of Penn College students – many of whom attended from academic classes or student organizations – through the third annual Etiquette Dinner on April 2.

School counselors and other K-12 educators spent the day on campus Wednesday to participate in Penn College's semiannual College and Career Readiness Conference.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently welcomed Chef Scott Endy back to campus as part of its Visiting Chef Series, in which the 1996 alumnus – now executive chef for the Las Vegas Convention Center – guided School of Hospitality students through preparation of a March 30 meal that helped raise money for scholarships. — Photos by Jennifer A.

All three organizational entries in Penn College's inaugural "Canstruction" anti-hunger benefit will go on to international competition on the basis of the contest judges' decisions announced at an awards reception Monday evening.

Forestry Field Day was held Monday at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood, giving 15 students from three schools the opportunity to see the nature-trail system, log yard and sawmill. The students representing Wellsboro and Bald Eagle high schools and West Branch Christian Academy also competed in Dendrology, Forest Mensuration, a Forestry Quiz Bowl, and Lumber and Log Scaling.

Sixteen students participated in the School of Natural Resources Management's second annual High School/CTC/AVTS Field Day, held in conjunction with Penn College's Spring Open House on March 24. Various students from each of the schools Derry Area High School (with seven students and instructor Roy Campbell); Franklin County Career and Technology Center (with six students and instructor David G.

Thirty-seven Penn College employees and students were added to the roster of Awesome Women Exemplars during the seventh annual recognition reception in the Thompson Professional Development Center's Mountain Laurel Room. They join nearly 200 other campus luminaries on the list, which is expanded each year in conjunction with Women's History Month. Kimberly R.

Penn College was one of seven sites where students studying for careers in health care gathered for The Northeastern/Central Pennsylvania Interprofessional Education Coalition's third annual Collaborative Care Summit this week.