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Downtown Williamsport and the Pennsylvania College of Technology campus were teeming with joyful graduates and guests, as the college held its three Spring 2025 commencement ceremonies May 16-17 at the Community Arts Center. Nearly 750 students marched in the ceremonies, with approximately 885 having petitioned to graduate. The livestreamed links to the three ceremonies are still available on the Spring 2025 Commencement webpage.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has presented student achievement awards to its Spring 2025 graduates. Commencement ceremonies were held May 16-17 at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport.

Two Army ROTC cadets at Pennsylvania College of Technology marked a milestone two days before receiving their baccalaureate degrees. MacKenzie L. Collins, of Pitman, New Jersey, and Michael J. Giordano, of Palmyra, were commissioned as second lieutenants and assigned to their Army component and branch.

Students in a Pennsylvania College of Technology course that focuses on the history of psychology recently visited Austria and England, where they experienced the cultures and regions that gave birth to the science of the mind and the practice of Western-based counseling and therapy. Eleven students, joined by two faculty members, explored some of the first psychological laboratories and hospitals and toured the homes of pioneering theorists.

Pennsylvania College of Technology Athletics honored student-athletes at the eighth annual Celebrating Athletic Triumphs and Successes ceremony, also known as "The CATS" awards. The ceremony was held in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium.

For the 10th year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has received notification of its Tree Campus Higher Education designation, and students marked the milestone by planting crabapple trees at the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center.

Chef Roberto Caporuscio made a return visit to the college’s Global Cuisines & Connections class to demonstrate the 300-year-old art of Neapolitan pizza and to encourage students to take part in a Spring 2026 Global Experience course that takes students on a hands-on culinary tour of Italy.

The second annual Aviators Ball repeated the success of last year’s inaugural event, organized by the Student Veteran Organization and held at Penn College’s Lumley Aviation Center at the Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville. Among events toasting out the academic year, the semi-formal affair featured games, music, photo ops, food and Wildcat connections.

Resident assistants stepped up to the plate (literally) and netted $128 for the Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity. For their “Spring All Hall,” Residence Life staff from Clinton, Delaware & Juniata Halls found a fun and sweet way to bring residents together for a good cause: They encouraged students to smash a plateful of whipped cream into the faces of resident assistants or staff.

Eighteen graduating seniors from Pennsylvania College of Technology’s architecture & sustainable design major will showcase their work in “Architecture & Sustainable Design: Senior Capstone Projects,” on display May 16-19 in The Gallery at Penn College. A reception for the exhibit is set for 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday, May 16, in the gallery on the third floor of The Madigan Library.