Helpful crews of students and staff delivered an expanded menu of activities and assistance during Welcome Week, easing new students onto their soon-to-be-familiar Penn College home. From Wednesday's check-in and move-in ... through entertainment and events that calmed the flutter of last-minute butterflies ... to Monday's start of classes, Penn College News photographers were there.
Pennsylvania College of Technology has received an $18,750 grant to support its Lycoming County Prison-to-College Program. The initiative aims to break down initial barriers to education and help individuals on a path to bettering themselves and their communities.
Pennsylvania College of Technology sponsored a hole at Friday's Ray Venema Memorial Golf Tournament, held at White Deer Golf Course by the West Branch Susquehanna Builders Association. Proceeds from the tournament went toward a scholarship in the name of Venema, who – as owner of Susquehanna Builders and a past president of the WBSBA – was a loyal and generous supporter of the Penn College Construction Association and its member students.
Clay art pieces crafted by Gerald G. Kaplan, instructor of ceramics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, were selected for display in two national juried exhibitions this summer – one in the heart of New Orleans and the other in rural, southwestern Pennsylvania.
As if Welcome Week isn't epic enough, greeting new and returning students as they prepare to leave their mark on the invitingly blank canvas of a fresh semester. Thursday night's activities alone brought a soaking rain, a swag toss to the screaming (and standing-room-only) mass of Wildcat fans who poured into UPMC Field, remarks from President Michael J. Reed – whose birthday prompted a crowdsourced serenade – and, accenting the beauty of a campus in full flower, a rainbow!
Among the latest additions to the Pennsylvania College of Technology community are 17 new full-time faculty members for the 2023-24 academic year - many of them alumni.
Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's dental hygiene program recently traveled to five remote villages in the Dominican Republic, where they provided oral-care services that are not usually easy to access.
Next week, 20 baseball teams from 11 countries will compete at the Little League World Series. Those youngsters and thousands of fans will embrace visual elements both on-site and online that were conceived by one “team” from one school: Pennsylvania College of Technology. Little League International’s Creative Department comprises three Penn College graphic design graduates – Amanda M. Cropper-Rose (class of 2012), Danielle N. Gannon (2022) and Natalie K. Lincalis (2023).
Members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's summer "Class of '23," stepping across the Community Arts Center stage during Saturday's 11 a.m. commencement ceremony, were urged by student speaker Kathryn Ann Plankenhorn to slow down and appreciate the "monumental moment" at which they realized their longtime goal of a college degree.
Pennsylvania College of Technology has presented student achievement awards to its Summer 2023 graduates. A commencement ceremony was held Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport. Penn College is a special mission affiliate of Penn State.
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