Events Articles

Students at Pennsylvania College of Technology are doing their part to help the working poor in other nations by organizing a fair-trade sale of handcrafted goods Nov. 18-20. The students, who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in applied human services, will host a Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale, which will include handmade jewelry, ornaments and home décor from around the world.

For nearly 25 years, the Weatherization Training Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology has provided technical education and training to the professionals who implement programs helping low-income households reduce their energy consumption and costs.

Students enrolled in the human services major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will host an event Nov. 4 to offer organizational help to caregivers and their loved ones. As part of the Service Learning in Sociology course, taught by LaRue R.

Girls in seventh and eighth grades visited campus Saturday to partake in SMART (Science and Math Applications in Real-World Technologies) Girls activities.

Students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will dedicate proceeds from an upcoming bread and pastry sale to a memorial fund for a former classmate. The Baking and Pastry Arts Application class will dedicate its Nov. 13 sale to raising funds for the Akacia Klick Memorial Fund.

Sixty-five people, representing 30 plastics companies, made a visit to Penn College's campus Oct. 22 for an Extrusion Minitec (a mini technical conference). The program was a joint effort of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the college.

Under boundless autumn sunshine, brightened even further by the friendliness of faculty/staff and students, Pennsylvania College of Technology held a record-breaking Fall 2009 Open House on Sunday.

Disability Awareness Day, a walk-in event sponsored by Disability Services and held Thursday in Penn's Inn, exposed participants to the barriers that people with disabilities sometimes encounter. Interactive activities called Project A.B.L.E.

Students and alumni looking for postgraduate jobs or valuable internships were encouraged to attend Penn College's Fall 2009 Career Fair, held Oct. 20-21 in Penn's Inn on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center.

The Rev. Hermann Scheipers, a German Catholic priest who survived life in the Dachau concentration camps and, at age 96, continues to vibrantly tell the tale spoke to a standing-room-only audience in Klump Academic Center on Monday evening. His visit, sponsored by the International Programs Office and arranged by Steven J.