School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies News Articles

Comments from skilled-trades advocate Mike Rowe are included in a video newly added to Penn College's You Tube channel, documenting the institution's first-time participation at the USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo in Washington, D.C.

Nine Pennsylvania College of Technology students from a variety of majors will compete at the National SkillsUSA Conference from June 23-28 in Kansas City, Mo., after winning gold medals at the state level.

A boy signals his satisfaction at sitting aboard heavy equipment at the college's ESC. Shane C. Somerville, of Centerville, who will graduate next month with a degree in forest technology, leads a sawmill tour. An ESC visitor finds shelter from the storm on a piece of Caterpillar machinery. Another soon-to-be graduate in forest technology, Nathan C.

One of the longest-running instructional programs at Pennsylvania College of Technology – and one of the oldest continuous automotive programs in the nation – celebrated its 100th anniversary Friday in the Parkes Automotive Technology Center.

President Gilmour welcomes the day's guests. Justin Shelinski (in sunglasses at center), a laboratory assistant at the college's Schneebeli Earth Science Center, mentors arborists-in-training outside the Field House.

Conductor Sandra Dackow leads the Hershey Symphony Orchestra, including timpanist Colin W. Williamson (right). The orchestra's role in the "Bridges to the Future" concert is noted on a poster outside. Williamson (behind the timpani at center background) joins his colleagues on stage in Carnegie Hall's 2,800-seat Isaac Stern Auditorium.

Instructor Carl J. Bower Jr. (in hat); Dorland Miller, president of the Lose Community Garden (left); and Seth J. Wyncoll, a landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis major from Kempton; clear twigs and other debris from a city landmark. Visible beyond the in-ground signage along Maynard Street, volunteers beautify the legacy of J. Roman Way.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors on Thursday approved the college administration’s recommendations for an investment manager and an auditing firm.

Contributions to Penn College – some monetary, others in-kind ... and all of them crucial to students obtaining "degrees that work" – were celebrated at Wednesday’s 10th annual Donor Wall Recognition Reception in the Student and Administrative Services Center.

Penn College alum Ryan E. Campbell and his co-worker Harry Wilson are congratulated in their employer's newsletter. Ryan E. Campbell, a May 2013 graduate of Penn College's automotive technology: Honda PACT emphasis major, was a recent third-place winner in the Zone 5 Honda Professionals 2014 Technician Online Challenge.