Events Articles

More than two dozen high school sophomores and juniors graduated recently from the Pennsylvania College of Technology Youth Leadership Program, a series of team-building exercises and other activities designed to improve communication and build character among select area teenagers.

"Boomtown Williamsport," a live "State of Pennsylvania" town meeting about the transformative andcontentious issue of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale play, will be broadcast live from Penn College at 7 p.m. Thursday on WVIA.

About 1,015 seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students from 11 schools and one home school participated in hands-on activities across campus Monday during Outreach for K-12’s semi-annual Career Day. Originally scheduled for March but postponed due to snow, the day offers younger students the opportunity to see a college campus while learning about a wide variety of careers.

Spring Commencement exercises were held May 13-14 at Williamsport's Community Arts Center for nearly 950 students graduating from Pennsylvania College of Technology. Friday's 3 p.m. ceremony celebrated students from the schools of Construction and Design Technologies, and Health Sciences; the 10 a.m.

WBRE aired a segment Thursday evening about this weekend's "Trash to Treasure" sale in Penn College's Field House. Stef Davis, the NBC affiliate's Williamsport bureau chief, prepared the piece about the yard sale, which will be held from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday.

The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, will host "Floreal Stratum," a collection of textile art by Meredith Setser, from May 19 to June 26. Setser's work features large installations primarily composed of handmade and industrial felts printed with traditional processes, such as etching, relief and screen printing.

Penn State President Graham B. Spanier joined new and recently tenured faculty members from the university in a visit to Pennsylvania College of Technology on Monday, May 9, the first leg of a three-day Road Scholars bus tour.

"Design: 2011," a portfolio exhibition by senior graphic graphic majors, officially opened Friday in The Gallery at Penn College.

Penn College held its Spring Sports Banquet in the Thompson Professional Development Center on Sunday, honoring student-athletes from the archery, bowling, dance, baseball, softball, men's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, and wrestling teams.

An annual reception in recognition of scholarship donors and the students who benefitfrom their generosity, featuring a Tropical Delights pastry buffet prepared by School of Hospitality students, was held Sunday afternoon in the Keystone Dining Room.