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On a day celebrating luck and blessings (St. Patrick’s Day), the annual Scholarship Luncheon applauded the generous support and inspiration provided through philanthropy to Pennsylvania College of Technology students. Nearly 300 donors, students and their guests attended the gathering, held in the college’s Field House.

Diesel and heavy equipment students are being sought as technicians by Highway Equipment & Supply Co. when it visits the Schneebeli Earth Science Center on Wednesday. Weekly pop-up employer information tables are coordinated by Penn College Career Services.

Pennsylvania College of Technology dental hygiene students recently provided oral hygiene instruction and information to clients of White Deer Run of Allenwood, an addiction rehabilitation center. Sponsored by the Penn College Student American Dental Hygienists’ Association, six students spent a day at the center.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s United Campus Ministry and Cheer Team recently teamed up for their spring semester fundraiser and donated all of their profits to a local nonprofit, Family Promise of Lycoming County. UCM and the Cheer Team sold 16 boxes (96 bars) of chocolate and donated $800 in goods and necessities to Family Promise, a homeless ministry.

Junior Gavin Barrett of Roselle, New Jersey, was named to the D3Hoops.com District 4 All-Region third team, it was announced on Thursday. Barrett becomes the college’s first men's basketball player in the NCAA era (since 2014) to earn all-region honors. Barrett is no stranger to making program history.

For the fifth consecutive year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has received “Guard-Friendly School” designation from an organization devoted to the Pennsylvania National Guard. The Pennsylvania National Guard Associations – an advocacy group dedicated to the growth of the Pennsylvania National Guard and its service members, veterans and families – recently bestowed the honor.

"Imagine a world without concrete," levels alumnus Joe DiBucci, building construction technology instructor at Penn College. (Impossible!) This energized episode of the "Tomorrow Makers" podcast brings loads of laughs and lots of insight about the world's most widely used building material — concrete. Have a listen to "Concrete Science."

On March 19, a group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students will host the first Wildcat Forum, a series of six-to-eight-minute talks sharing the theme “What is Success?” The event is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium and is open to the community. Three Penn College alumni and two employees are slated to speak.

Positive reinforcement, fun and fundamentals are the foundations on which first-year coach David Straub began building the Pennsylvania College of Technology tennis program last fall and which he looks to continue this spring. The Wildcats open their season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, hosting King’s College at the Central Pennsylvania Tennis Center in South Williamsport.

Pennsylvania College of Technology student Kianna A. Rizzo, of Elysburg, is the third consecutive Penn College student to be selected for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists’ Student to Leadership Development Program. Each year, ASRT selects two students from each state for the three-year Student to Leadership Development Program.