Alum's gift transforms Penn College's machining lab

Published 10.13.2020

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Students majoring in one of five manufacturing-related degrees are benefiting from a gift to Pennsylvania College of Technology, featured in a YouTube video. Larry A. Ward, founder of Packaging Progressions Inc., made a donation exceeding $1 million to revamp the college's machining lab – the largest alumni gift in the college's history. Ward's generosity has resulted in fresh paint, lighting, fixtures and 50 new machines for the 14,299-square-foot instructional space. "It's just completely transformed the entire lab," says Dakota C. Harrison, a manufacturing engineering technology major from Lewisberry. "And we really couldn't have done it without Mr. Ward."

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