Thursday, December 14, 2023
Photos by Thomas F. Speicher, writer/video producer, and Tom Wilson, writer/editor: Penn College News
Groundwork for next spring's Baja SAE Williamsport competition – to be hosted by Penn College at its Heavy Construction Equipment Operations Site in Brady Township – is continuing, inside and out.
With most of the student body home on semester break, Baja team members stayed behind to work on their vehicle. And even though classes are on hiatus until next year, there's still much to do at the riverside competition site itself.
Marshall W. Fowler, of Sellersville and majoring in engineering design technology, works on the car’s design.
The team’s car for Baja SAE Williamsport will feature a new chassis that’s beginning to take shape.
Stephen F. Goodwin, of Ellicott City, Md., and scheduled to graduate this Saturday with a bachelor’s degree in welding & fabrication engineering technology, measures the angle of a tube.
Undaunted by rough terrain within Penn's Woods, Andrew P. Keister, laboratory assistant for diesel equipment technology, clears felled trees and brush at the eventual site of Baja SAE Williamsport.
Jeremiah J. Howe, a work study student enrolled in forest technology, brings down a tree along an access road. Standing nearby, fresh from their own workday of site preparation, were Wyatt C. Forest, laboratory assistant for horticulture, and Nathan D. Avery, laboratory assistant for forest technology.
No sooner than the tree hit the ground, Keister was there to move it aside.
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