About 35 area high school girls met their potential destiny during Penn College's annual "Framing Your Future" event Friday, gaining hands-on exposure to the vast career opportunities represented by the School of Construction & Design Technologies.
Nearly all members of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s SkillsUSA team earned medals during the April 10-12 Pennsylvania Leadership and Skills Conference in Hershey – 20 of them advancing to this summer's 55th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, through their gold-worthy performances.
Pennsylvania College of Technology is set to provide a quicker pathway to a baking and pastry arts career through a new 12-month certificate in professional baking and a revision to its associate degree in baking and pastry arts that will make a degree obtainable in 16 months.
The Keystone Region Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club has established a $25,000 endowed scholarship fund to benefit students enrolled in the automotive restoration technology program at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Less than 24 hours after freezing April showers and overhead gloom shrouded the area, far more seasonal conditions prevailed for a Spring Open House that more than lived up to its name. Rising temperatures were matched by warm smiles and abundant goodwill in every corner of Penn College's campuses, where students, employees and alumni helped inquisitive visitors spend a Saturday to remember.
Five graphic design students at Pennsylvania College of Technology have received 2019 American Advertising Awards, and a fellow student was honored with a $1,000 scholarship. The accolades were presented by the Northeast Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Advertising Federation at its recent awards ceremony, held at The Westmoreland Club in Wilkes-Barre.
Pennsylvania College of Technology will again be part of the hospitality team for the running of the historic Kentucky Derby on May 4. Twenty-eight students, 10 alumni and a faculty member are set to spend a week in Louisville, Kentucky, where they will join a legion of culinarians from Levy Restaurants, the food purveyor for Churchill Downs.
Members of the Penn College community – 124 strong, featuring a heavy turnout by Wildcat student-athletes – combined for 609,700 “Yards for Yeardley” in a national effort to spotlight healthy relationships. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Seven Pennsylvania College of Technology horticulture students, a supportive alumnus and a faculty member recently traveled to Colorado State University for the 43rd annual National Collegiate Landscape Competition. A number of Penn College students were among the top performers in their respective categories, and the team finished 33rd among 64 schools.
Pennsylvania College of Technology recently announced the winners of its annual wedding cake competition, with first-place honors awarded to a cake topped with a hand-molded weeping cherry tree. The decorator responsible for the intricately detailed cake is Aurora Mercedes LeBlanc, a non-degree student from Williamsport.
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