One year ago, Pennsylvania College of Technology softball coach Angela Stackhouse had her team in the same position entering the United East Conference playoffs as it is this year: regular-season champion, top seed and tournament host. Unfortunately, wet weather forced what was to have been a double-elimination tournament into a one-loss-and-you-are-out event, and her Wildcats made an early exit.
Twenty Pennsylvania College of Technology employees received Blue Belts in Innovation Engineering, certification from the Innovation Engineering Institute that is recognized throughout industry, during a May 4 ceremony in the Thompson Professional Development Center.
The institution’s earliest tinkerers and innovators returned to campus recently for the 20th annual Williamsport Technical Institute Reunion.
Students at Pennsylvania College of Technology and Lycoming College can enhance their studies on both campuses. A cross-registration program between the two schools permits students to complete courses and activities that are not available at their home institution.
Fifteen Student Leadership & Involvement Awards – as well as a scholarship or three – were recently presented in the Thompson Professional Development Center. The program, a heartwarming tradition of the Office of Student Engagement, honors campus leaders, their mentors among Penn College's faculty and staff, and the student organizations that have left their mark on yet another academic year.
More than 500 students enrolled in Penn College Dual Enrollment made visits to campus during the spring semester, immersing in a wide variety of majors, courtesy of college faculty.
Culinary arts technology grad and current business administration student Melyce E. Kenyon, owner and operator of MK Bubble Drinks, visited with students in the Careers in Hospitality class, taught by Chef Mary G. Trometter, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts.
The graphic design major celebrated two significant campus events in recent days, with more than 200 people attending a reception for “Graphic Design 2023” and with nearly 100 high school students and teachers visiting Pennsylvania College of Technology for the inaugural Graphic Design Senior Project Exhibition.
On April 25, the second-year dental hygiene class arranged a community outreach event: Spreading Smiles in Williamsport.
As April showers continued daily into the opening week of May, one could be tempted to wonder if fair weather would ever return. But then ... at 7:04 on a Wednesday evening, let's say ... for just a handful of seconds near the rain-glossed Davie Jane Gilmour Center parking lot ... came a sign that storms do pass.
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