School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies News Articles

A student in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management was awarded a $1,000 scholarship during the recent Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days at Kansas State University. Daniel A.

Forestry Field Day was held Monday at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood, giving 15 students from three schools the opportunity to see the nature-trail system, log yard and sawmill. The students representing Wellsboro and Bald Eagle high schools and West Branch Christian Academy also competed in Dendrology, Forest Mensuration, a Forestry Quiz Bowl, and Lumber and Log Scaling.

Twelve students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management joined by an alumnus and a faculty member attended the recent Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days competition in Manhattan, Kan. Horticulture instructor Carl J. Bower Jr.

Sixteen students participated in the School of Natural Resources Management's second annual High School/CTC/AVTS Field Day, held in conjunction with Penn College's Spring Open House on March 24. Various students from each of the schools Derry Area High School (with seven students and instructor Roy Campbell); Franklin County Career and Technology Center (with six students and instructor David G.

Jeremy L. Thorne, a landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis major from Sugarloaf, has been chosen as Pennsylvania College of Technology's final "Student of the Month" for the Spring 2012 semester.

A Boeing 727-200F aircraft from FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) made its final descent Wednesday onto the runway at the Williamsport Regional Airport. Celebration of this landing and tremendously generous donation to Pennsylvania College of Technology took place at the college's Lumley Aviation Center. A tour of the aircraft followed its arrival.

About 25 students in forestry instructor Jack E. Fisher's Wildlife Management class got hands-on exposure to birds of prey, as Master Falconer Cheri Heimbach returned to the School of Natural Resources Management this week. One of about 150 falconers in Pennsylvania, Heimbach brought along a Barbary Falcon, a Red-tailed Hawk, an Eagle Owl and a Harris's Hawk.

The work of a Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate who is shaping the training received by thousands of Toyota technicians is featured in the latest video added to thecollege's YouTube Channel. The nearly four-minute video highlights Ryan M. Black, a 2005 graduate of the automotive technology management bachelor-degree major.

Three Penn College students returned home over Spring Break, sharing the benefits of their postsecondary education with three classes at Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School. Carol A. Lugg, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management, joined the trio Luke C. Laughlin and Scott M. Ziegler, of Butler, and Benjamin J.

In a more focused midterm getaway than enjoyed by some collegiate counterparts, students from the School of Natural Resources Management toured a series of career-related sites during their recent Spring Break.