Competing Sunday in the Penn State University Athletic Conference/United States Collegiate Athletic Association wrestling championships, Pennsylvania College of Technology placed third as a team and crowned two individual champions.
On March 2, the public is invited to view intricately decorated, multitiered cakes created by Pennsylvania College of Technology's baking and pastry arts students. "Butterflies" is the theme for the cakes, which will be displayed as part of a contest developed for the students by an industry leader in the world of wedding cakes. Students have spent about eight weeks of class time on their cakes.
Why would 21 Fortune 500 companies including heavyweights General Electric, PepsiCo, Honeywell International, DuPont, John Deere, Corning and Textron visit a career fair in central Pennsylvania in the midst of economic uncertainty? Because, experts say, even when the economy slows down, skilled, specialized positions can be hard to fill. Employers stay hungry for workforce-ready graduates.
In a continuing effort to make sure students have access to the support services that can help them succeed in their college course work, Pennsylvania College of Technology's Academic Success Center has expanded its tutoring services to new locations in 2011-12.
At least 10 Pennsylvania College of Technology wrestlers will be among those competing Sunday for individual honors when the Penn State University Athletic Conference/United States Collegiate Athletic Association championships are held in Rec Hall on The Pennsylvania State University's main campus. According to the PSUAC website, competition begins at 11 a.m.
Tickets are available for this year's Murder Mystery Dinner "Big Lies in the Big Easy" set for 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in the Mountain Laurel Room of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Thompson Professional Development Center. Prices are $15 for students and $19 for faculty and staff; the event is sponsored by the School of Hospitality's catering class and the Student Activities Office.
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Wildcat Events Board's Create-a-Gift event returned to the Bush Campus Center lobby Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon. The annual activity gives students the opportunity to stuff plush bears at $6 for one or $10 for two as presents for a "special someone" or other. Photos by Michael S. Fischer, student photographer
The Penn College baseball team raised $850 by raffling a signed Cal Ripken jersey tohelp fundits Spring Break trip to a tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Tickets were sold over several days in the Keystone Dining Room, and the drawing took place at halftime of Wednesday night's men's basketball game. The lucky winner? Daniel R. Pringle, a building construction technology major from Havertown.
The Bison Battalion the Bucknell University-based ROTC program comprising Bucknell, Bloomsburg and Susquehanna universities, Penn College and Lycoming College assisted in Saturday's Boy Scout shows at the Lycoming and Susquehanna Valley malls.
A lineup of comedy, music and commemorative cuisine will be offered as Pennsylvania College of Technology hosts several activities for the campus community and the public in observance of Black History Month. Comedian Seaton Smith will open the "Icons & Legends" celebration with a free appearance in the college's Klump Academic Center auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. Clyde I.
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