Penn College News

WNEP-TV explores the LaunchBox

Friday, November 21, 2025

photos by Tom Speicher, writer/video producer

The recently opened Williamsport LaunchBox supported by Ken and Kristie Healy brought WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker to campus on Thursday.

Located in the Carl Building Technologies Center, the LaunchBox is the 24th innovation space in the Invent Penn State LaunchBox & Innovation Network, a project that spans the state within campus communities to provide a wide array of low- to no-cost resources to innovators and startups.

Aucker interviewed Erin S. Shultz, manager of Williamsport LaunchBox operations, and toured the Dr. Welch Workshop: A Makerspace at Penn College. Her story can be viewed on the ABC affiliate's site: Collaboration space for students and residents opens at Penn College in Williamsport