Penn College Student Awarded $5,000 HVAC Industry Scholarship
Aug. 29, 2011 - 10:57 a.m.
A Penn College student has been selected from among 100 applicants to receive one of only six $5,000 scholarships to be awarded this year by the National Association of Oil and Energy Service Professionals. Joshua J. Holohan, of Williamsport, working toward a bachelor’s degree in heating, ventilation and air conditioning design technology, received a Dave Nelsen Scholarship on the basis of a 500-word essay and his academic performance. The award is a collaboration of the trade association and its industry partners. “Josh is a great student – very interested in excelling in the HVAC field,” said Richard C. Taylor, associate professor of plumbing and heating, who nominated Holohan for his ethics and commitment.
Penn College Student Awarded Scholarship at Trade Event
April 26, 2011 - 1:44 p.m.
Four students in Penn College’s School of Construction and Design Technologies – including a scholarship recipient – participated in the April 14 meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers. Matthew B. Stever, of Red Hill, president of the college’s ASHRAE chapter and a heating, ventilation and air conditioning technology major, received a $500 ASHRAE Central Chapter scholarship at the regional organization’s annual “Student Night” in Harrisburg. “Matt has worked hard in supporting ASHRAE and deserves this recognition,” said David P. Socha, instructor and adviser to the Penn College chapter. Stever also presented a commercial HVAC design for Upper Perkiomen Middle School (his alma mater) in East Greenville.
Student in Four-Year HVAC Major Awarded National Scholarship
Aug. 27, 2010 - 9:53 a.m.
A heating, ventilation and air conditioning design technology student at Penn College has received a $2,000 award from the National Association of Oil Heat Service Managers. Bradley T. Rydbom, of Tipton, was granted one of nine scholarships in honor of Dave Nelsen, of the Kurz Oil Corp., who was the trade association’s education chairman at the time of his death in 1998.
Scholarship Winner, Classmates Take Part in ASHRAE ‘Student Night’
April 16, 2010 - 12:45 p.m.
Eight students in Penn College’s four-year heating, ventilation and air conditioning design technology major participated in the April 14 meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers in Harrisburg. Matthew A. Alters, of Bellefonte, president of the college’s ASHRAE chapter, received a $500 ASHRAE Central Chapter scholarship. “Matt has worked hard in supporting ASHRAE and deserves this recognition,” said David P. Socha, instructor and adviser to the Penn College chapter.
New Two-Year Degree at Penn College Focuses on Renewable Energy
Feb. 4, 2010 - 5:15 p.m.
A new Penn College associate degree, the latest industry-aware major at an institution that grows “greener” by the day, will prepare students for careers in the renewable energy field. Beginning with the Fall 2010 semester, the college’s School of Construction and Design Technologies will offer a two-year degree in renewable energy technologies. In a sequence of theory and laboratory courses over the four-semester curriculum, students can develop the practical skills to install, troubleshoot and maintain photovoltaic, wind-turbine and solar-thermal systems. “Renewable energy will be a hot topic for years to come due to depletion of our natural resources and reliance on fossil fuels,” said Marc E. Bridgens, dean of construction and design technologies at Penn College. “With all the national and local emphasis on our ‘carbon footprint,’ it’s only natural that we get involved in teaching these up-to-date technologies.”
Students Join Instructor in Upgrading Church’s Heating System
Jan. 28, 2010 - 1:57 p.m.
Four members from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ student chapter at Penn College recently donated their time and hands-on talents to update the heating system at Williamsport’s 113-year-old Annunciation Catholic Church. Instructor David P. Socha, a member of the St. John the Worker Parish served by the church and the Fall 2009 adviser to the chapter during a faculty colleague’s sabbatical, was aided by Matthew A. Alters, of Bellefonte, president of the ASHRAE chapter; Mark P. Hunsicker, of Lansdale, vice president; Christopher J. Barlow, of Nazareth, secretary; and Mark C. Shaffer, of Hanover, a chapter member.
Penn College to Host SkillsUSA District Competitions
Jan. 19, 2010 - 11:55 a.m.
Penn College’s SkillsUSA student organization will host six District 6 skills competitions at the college on Jan. 29. SkillsUSA is a national student organization that, in an effort to alleviate skills shortages in the workforce, develops employability, participatory and leadership skills. Competitions for secondary and postsecondary students are held annually at the district, regional, state and national levels. Twenty-two high school students from Central Mountain High School, Columbia-Montour Area Vocational Technical School, Lycoming Career and Technology Center, Northumberland County Career and Technology Center, Schuylkill Technology Center, SUN Area Technical Institute and Williamsport Area High School will participate in the one-day event.
Penn College Students Warm Hearts, Home in Season of Giving
Dec. 3, 2009 - 1:26 p.m.
As October brought chilly warnings of the winter to come, as temperatures dropped and the wind blew and a Muncy resident’s boiler sputtered toward its end, a group of Penn College students and a faculty member volunteered in the timely installation of a heating system for the area senior citizen. "This is an answer to prayer,” said Helen Rohm, grateful for her now-toasty home, where members of Richard C. Taylor’s Hydronic Heating Systems class helped cut rusted piping, remove the hulking boiler and cart it up a flight of stairs, and set the new one in place. The students aided a crew from Robert W. Dittmar Plumbing & Heating, the Muncy contracting firm that led the “Oil Heat Cares” project. Under that nonprofit program, sponsored by the National Association of Oil Heat Service Managers, funds are provided for a replacement boiler that local technicians donate their time to install.
Two Penn College Students Awarded HVAC Industry Scholarships
Sept. 8, 2009 - 4:39 p.m.
Two Penn College students have been awarded $2,000 scholarships from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute. Mark P. Hunsicker, of Lansdale, enrolled in the four-year heating, ventilation and air conditioning design technology major, and Stanley D. Petchulis, of Mar-Lin, in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning technology associate-degree curriculum, are among 16 winners of the Clifford H. "Ted" Rees Jr. Scholarship for the Fall 2009 semester.
HVAC Majors Take Part in ASHRAE Chapter’s ‘Student Night’
May 11, 2009 - 2:14 p.m.
Seven students in Penn College’s four-year heating, ventilation and air conditioning design technology major attended a recent meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers in Harrisburg. The contingent participated in the chapter’s April 8 “Student Night,” along with architectural engineering majors from The Pennsylvania State University.
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