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Several members of the Horticulture Club worked with their faculty adviser and a streets and parks employee from the city's Department of Public Works (a Penn College graduate) to refresh a rain garden along Pine Street in downtown Williamsport.

During the past decade, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Baja SAE team members have journeyed more than 20,000 miles to test their talent. Next year, they will travel less than 10 from main campus to do that. Penn College will host a Baja SAE competition May 16-19 at its Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Montgomery and Allenwood. Dubbed Baja SAE Williamsport, the international event is expected to attract 80-plus teams and about 800 competitors.

A forest technology graduate, whose law enforcement career with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management culminated in being named "Special Agent of the Year" in 2019, returned to the Schneebeli Earth Science Center last week when back in the area to visit family.

When Tristan Current heard that he could pursue his love of baseball and get hands-on training for a career in the great outdoors at Pennnsylvania College of Technology, he was all in.

Nibert in his element − an outdoor wildlife lab − instructing students during a pheasant release onto State Game Lands in March 2005. Donald R. Nibert, an assistant professor of forestry who retired in 2009 after a 40-year teaching career at Williamsport Area Community College and Pennsylvania College of Technology, died Sunday, Feb. 26, at the age of 80.

Admissions counselor Joey A Worth Jr. stands ready to greet visitors to Booth #4620 in the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. Reuniting at the college's display area are Tyler W. Dunn (left), a 2018 graduate of the college's heavy construction equipment technology: operator emphasis major, and Justin W. Beishline, assistant dean of diesel technology and natural resources.

Students express themselves through floral design. The always-appealing work of students in Karen R. Ruhl's Art of Floral Design course, seasonally accented by the Valentine bear "stuffed" into the corner of the lobby, went on temporary display inside the Schneebeli Earth Science Center's main entrance on Wednesday.

As the commonwealth celebrates anew the breadth of its agriculture heritage, representatives of Pennsylvania College of Technology will again be on hand to epitomize those who have helped the industry thrive for centuries. Students and employees will represent the college at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg from Jan.

The neon T-shirts of students, chaperones and volunteers sufficiently chased away the gloom and allowed a rainy Thursday's "PA Build My Future" to flourish unimpeded.

An alumna of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s welding program and her family have established a scholarship at the college honoring the memory of her father. The Douglas M. Puckly Memorial Scholarship was created by Stephanie M.