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A senior at South Williamsport Area High School is the 2007 recipient of the Peggy Madigan Memorial Leadership Scholarship award at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Jason M. McElroy learned of his selection while participating in the 22nd annual "Pennsylvania's Tomorrow Starts Today" Student Government Seminar, hosted at Penn College by state Sen. Roger A. Madigan.

Before graduating, students pursuing degrees in early childhood education at Pennsylvania College of Technology get hands-on experience in child-care centers, gaining lessons that cannot be learned in a classroom alone. "When you go on your practicum, you truly learn who you are and what kind of teacher you will become," said Emily A.

Seven Pennsylvania College of Technology students planning to graduate this calendar year received Penn College Awards during a Thursday banquet at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant on the college's main campus in Williamsport. The 11th annual awards recognized students who have made outstanding contributions to Penn College.

An investment portfolio managed by a group of Pennsylvania College of Technology business students has outperformed a key industry benchmark in its firstsix months of trading.

The Community Arts Center will present its 2007 "Director's Chair" Award to Robin Fountain, music director/conductor for the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra. Fountain, who has led the orchestra since 1992, will be honored on June 16 during a fundraising event and ceremony at the Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport.

Fifty-five students from six area high schools visited Penn College on May 16 to attend "The Penn College Plastics Experience." Students from Danville, Warrior Run, Loyalsock, Williamsport Area, Jersey Shore Area high schools and Watsontown Christian Academy attended workshops in injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, polymer synthesis and thermoforming, as well as an industry roundtable wit

Pennsylvania College of Technology presented "Distinguished Staff" and "Part-Time Teaching Excellence" awards Thursday, additionally recognizing this year's retirees and the newest inductees into the college's Quarter Century Club.

(The following is drawn from remarks by Davie Jane Gilmour, Pennsylvania College of Technology president, during a May 17 all-college meeting to close the 2006-07 academic year.) It is fitting that we end each academic year by honoring students, faculty and staff who distinguished themselves through their accomplishments.

Three Montoursville-raised sisters who have been singing together since they began to walk will open Pennsylvania College of Technology's commencement ceremonies with the national anthem on May 19. The youngest of the three, Harriet E. "Betsy" Yoder, plans to graduate Saturday with an associate degree in individual studies, while her two older sisters, Anna K. Johnson and Amy E.

Since 1997, 14 Pennsylvania College of Technology archers have been named all-Americans 30 times. Of those 14, five have earned all-American status three or more times, and, this weekend at the United States Intercollegiate Archery Championships at Sparta, Ill., Wildcat Michelle Wright will seek to become the sixth.