Pennsylvania College of Technology's steadfast donors and their grateful beneficiaries came face-to-face at Sunday's annual Scholarship Luncheon, held in the campus Field House in celebration of the doors that philanthropy opens for students.
A “Chopped” champion and a Scranton-area bakery owner, both graduates of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s hospitality program, will return to the college for its Visiting Chef Series, which culminates in a dinner to benefit scholarships.
Pennsylvania College of Technology spring on-field teams went a combined 5-1 in action this past week.
Eight students, two faculty members and Pennsylvania College of Technology’s senior corporate relations director recently ventured to the Las Vegas Convention Center for this year’s World of Concrete, the only annual international event dedicated to the commercial concrete and masonry industries.
Eleven of instructor Franklin H. Reber Jr.'s concrete science students, along with two graduates and industry employers, recently attended a seven-hour Nudura Corp. Insulated Concrete Forms certification training at Hoover Industrial Supply in Troy.
Horticulture instructor Justin Shelinski this month took his Advanced Plant Production Hemp & Hydro class to BrightFarms, a large-scale lettuce producer in Selinsgrove. The leading supplier of locally grown salads for supermarkets, the company also has locations in Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
In a traditionally reliable sign of approaching spring, teams of third-year students in Architectural Design Studio V were assigned the design and construction of functional chairs using up to 50 sheets of 4-by-5 double-wall corrugated cardboard. "This year, the students were challenged to use the least amount of cardboard possible," said Robert A. Wozniak Jr., associate professor of architecture. "And they were asked to try not to use steel or wooden dowels, as had been done in the recent past."
The naming of two instructional labs at Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center heightens the visibility of a corporate partner’s enduring behind-the-scenes investment in the next generation of industry leaders.
Two sections of Robert A. Wozniak Jr.'s Building Materials II class recently visited Reynolds Iron Works, a century-old business just a few miles west of Penn College's main campus.
From the Spring 2023 Penn College Magazine: The return of global experience courses in 2021-22 yields lifetime memories – both professional and personal.
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