Hughesville High Schoolers Visit College Plastics Labs

Published 11.20.2015

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    Visiting East Lycoming School District students hear from the college's Timothy E. Weston, associate professor of plastics & polymer technology and department head,The guests learn how a recreational mainstay is manufactured by injection molding.The impressive machinery in the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center's Thermoforming Center of Excellence is demonstrated by program manager Christopher J. Gagliano (left).A group of 34 engineering-minded students from Hughesville High School visited the campus' plastics laboratories Wednesday morning in a tour arranged by Anne K. Soucy, assistant professor of plastics technology and liaison to the Penn College NOW dual-enrollment program. Students representing grades nine through 12 were able to tour the college's thermoforming, blow molding, extrusion, rotational molding and injection molding labs, where Penn College students provided demonstrations of the equipment.
    Photos by Dalaney T. Vartenisian, student photographer

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