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"Made in Central PA," a manufacturers' showcase of the products and career opportunities available in Penn College's nine-county back yard, was held Thursday on main campus. About a dozen people including teachers and counselors from area high schools, as well as representatives of regional career and technology centers attended.

A group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students contributed to The Pennsylvania State University Advanced Vehicle Team's EcoCar by producing custom brake rotors for the vehicle. The team, made up of Penn State students, is producing a hybrid vehicle for EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge.

Pennsylvania College of Technology hosted the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge North Central Pennsylvania Regional Qualifier, a robotics competition for students in grades 7-12, on its campus Feb. 5.

Groups of high schoolers from six states convened in Penn College's College Avenue Labs on Feb. 5 for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge North Central Pennsylvania Regional Qualifier, which tested the students' engineering know-how in a robot-against-robot competition stadium.

Another appreciable overnight snowfall meant another morning workout for Penn College's community-minded student body. As part of "Operation Snowflake," campus organizations share shoveling duty at registered locations if a storm hits on their watch. On Wednesday morning, the cleanup assignment fell to members of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Photos provided by Kevin T. Werkheiser, SME

Synthes, a global medical-device company that has supported Pennsylvania College of Technology by donating instructional equipment and hiring numerous graduates of its automated manufacturing and machining program, is the 2010 recipient of the college's Mentorship Award.

Penn College was the site recently of a Technology Leadership Workshop, presented free to educators through Siemens Industry Inc.'s Siemens Cooperates With Education program. The event attracted 15 educators from such local institutions as Bucknell University and Williamsport Area School District, as well as from colleges and universities in North Dakota, Michigan and Ohio.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently completed a collaborative project that fused the skills of students in the plastics and polymer engineering technology and manufacturing engineering technology majors.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology representatives were among medalists at SkillsUSA's 46th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference held June 21-25 in Kansas City, Mo. The championships were held in H.

Pennsylvania College of Technology manufacturing engineering technology students took on one of modern humanity's perpetual challenges: to build a better mousetrap. Working in groups, the students designed humane mousetraps that could be produced on the college's rapid prototyping machine, also called a three-dimensional printer.