Troy E. Records Jr., set to graduate from Pennsylvania College of Technology next month with two information technology degrees, was chosen as a Conference Associate for last month's Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
Young minds (and the busy hands that accompany them) were thoroughly spellbound at Thursday's Science Festival in the Field House, where area elementary and middle school students and their families stepped into an astonishing STEM playground.
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Lycoming College and the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce invite area elementary and middle school students and their families to a hands-on Science Festival in the Penn College Field House on Thursday, April 7.
An administrator in the School of Engineering Technologies drew upon her vastly varied background this week – from two patents for co-inventions in biomedicine to teaching to dressing department-store manikins – to envision a STEM workforce as diverse as her resume.
Penn College has partnered with Mediaplanet USA for an "Empowering Women in Gaming" campaign to share the resources, tools and technology that are helping female gamers and game-design professionals succeed in a male-dominated industry.
Pennsylvania College of Technology's "Women's Wednesday" series continued this week with Stacey C. Hampton, assistant dean of industrial and computer technologies, engaging students during a late-afternoon social in College Avenue Labs.
Lester recaps a rewarding professional life that led to her Penn College position – a road that wound from San Diego to Washington, D.C., to New York City en route to Williamsport. Cementing a community partnership are (from left) Alison A. Diehl, director of Penn College's Clean Energy Center; Duane Hershberger, executive director of Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity; and Lester.
Joining in the observance of International Women's Day (March 8) – an occasion to highlight the social, cultural, political and economic accomplishments of women the world over – PCToday shares a close-to-home look at students raising the bar for their peers and for all of the tomorrow makers yet to come.
Day after day, and not just on International Women's Day, Penn College champions the hands-on effort needed to reverse the disproportionately low representation of women in the trades.
International welding artist Rae Ripple, encouraged by a Pennsylvania College of Technology student last fall to drop by campus, honored that invitation Friday with an inspiring daylong visit. "I absolutely love this school!" she said during a "Live With Rae" morning presentation in the Klump Academic Center, coolly and confidently striding the auditorium stage in an animated and unabashed Q&A.
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