Pennsylvania College of Technology, Lycoming College and the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce invite area elementary and middle schools and their families to a hands-on Science Festival in the Penn College Field House on Wednesday, March 4.
Connie J. Plankenhorn, a physician assistant studies major and an EMT in College Health Services, provides a lifesaving demo. Scouts bundle up to survey the landscape under the day's brisk sunshine. Electronics instructor Ken J. Kinley shares his quarter-century-plus experience. Going green: Carl J.
Penn College's expanded and enhanced welding lab, unveiled in dedication ceremonies on Feb. 6, is featured in a new video on the college's YouTube channel. At 55,000-plus square feet, it is believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide.
An expanded and enhanced welding lab – at 55,000-plus square feet, believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide – was dedicated on Feb. 6 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Welding Expansion Project, funded in part by a $2 million grant from the U.S.
Four Pennsylvania College of Technology students are among 14 nationwide to receive scholarships from a foundation dedicated to promoting skilled manufacturing careers.
A civil engineering technology major at Pennsylvania College of Technology is one of four students to be recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Central Pennsylvania Section for outstanding academic achievement. Among those presented with a $2,000 check at the section’s recent dinner meeting, the 28th time that the organization’s annual awards have been distributed, was Regina M.
Regina M. Peluzzo, characterized by a faculty member as “the model student for civil engineering technology,” has been chosen as October's “Student of the Month” at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Penn College's second annual PA Build My Future event, an interactive academic and industry showcase on Thursday, provided more than 900 high-school students with an opportunity to experience the full range of possibilities in the construction and design field.
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
"We must continue to seek new ways to encourage more youth – and more career-changers – to enter STEM fields of study," President Davie Jane Gilmour concludes.
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