Career Day brought hundreds of ninth-12th graders to campus on Thursday to explore more than 30 activities offered by employees and students to help high-schoolers learn about the wide variety of career options available to them. The event is coordinated by the College Transitions and First Year Initiatives Office. – Photos by Jennifer A. Cline, writer/magazine editor
Three pieces of Komatsu construction machinery are on loan to Pennsylvania College of Technology for use at the institution’s heavy equipment operations site in Brady Township.
WNEP’s Chris Keating visited campus for Thursday's PA Build My Future, filing a report on the second annual introduction of secondary students to the wide-open world of construction and design careers.
The “tomorrow makers” of Pennsylvania College of Technology attracted 458 companies and organizations to campus for a recent two-day Fall Career Fair. The employers – including 27 Fortune 500 companies – offered nearly 4,900 job and internship opportunities to the 1,942 students who attended the event at the college’s Field House and Bardo Gymnasium.
The League of American Bicyclists, the only grassroots advocacy organization for people who bike, has honored Pennsylvania College of Technology with a bronze-level award for promoting and enabling safe, accessible bicycling on campus.
Students brainstorm in a unique outdoor classroom ... ... and join their problem-solving lab partners at photo time. An involved instructor shares the sunlight with a new colleague. Human services students traveled to High Flight Farm, along Route 973 in Cogan Station, on Tuesday to experience the benefits of equine therapy. Applied human services major Corianne A.
The Financial Aid Office at Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering free assistance for current and future college students and their families to complete the 2020-21 Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The college is hosting FAFSA completion sessions on its main campus to assist with the online application.
The Penn College contingent joins its Acero Precision hosts to memorialize the visit. Students talk with Michael Mannion (right), manufacturing engineering manager for Acero's Mazak Mill Cell. Penn College students and faculty were among those who visited Acero Precision for the recent observance of Manufacturing Day, a national initiative to promote manufacturing as a career choice.
Melissa Turlip, program manager with Commonwealth Charitable Management, invites attendees to explore the six Mobile Oilfield Learning Unit stations (at right), offering 24 hands-on activities on energy and the technologies and sciences involved with the oil and gas industry. The traveling exhibit, from the Oilfield Energy Center, is available for secondary school visits.
PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Nathan D. Avery, full-time Laboratory Assistant for Forest Technology, School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies; effective Oct. 15 Rebecca A.
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