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Warren A. Peter An alumnus of Williamsport Area Community College was accorded Pennsylvania Builders Association "Builder of the Year" honors during the group's recent Installation Banquet and Awards Gala at the Radisson Lackawanna Station in Scranton. Warren A. Peter, of Warren Peter Construction Inc.

Golfer-turned-head-coach Matthew Haile helped his team stay undefeated and capture conference championships. In 2003, he was the conference individual champion – the first since 1982. During Adam Waigand’s tenure, the Wildcats soccer team achieved a 55-14-1 record and a 2004 conference championship. An All-State selection, he helped the defense record 15 shutouts in his last two years.

More than 40 architecture students from The Pennsylvania State University traveled to Penn College's Construction Masonry Building on Wednesday, an annual visit that acquaints them with the practical upshot of their designs and reinforces the benefits of masonry as a construction medium.

A team of associate-degree students from Penn College finished third in this week's Residential Construction Management Competition in Las Vegas, while its four-year counterpart placed 13th among 35 entries. Benjamin L. Thayer, a building construction technology major from Hampton, N.J., and captain of the college's two-year team, was chosen as an outstanding student-chapter member.

Thirty landscape architecture majors from The Pennsylvania State University received valuable hands-on experience in Penn College's masonry lab this past week. The traditional exercise gave Penn State students the opportunity to work with materials and processes that are often part of their designs: brick, block, artificial stone and archways.

As part of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Scholarship Campaign, Penn College Foundation Board of Directors member Paul H. Rooney Jr. and his wife, Tacie, have established an annual scholarship in memory of Tacie’s parents. First preference for awards from the C. Leroy and Evelyn M.

The inspirational story of a building construction technology: masonry emphasis major is explored in the latest video added to Pennsylvania College of Technology’s YouTube Channel. The nearly four-minute video highlights the associate-degree major through the experiences of Nicole Reyes-Molina, of Lancaster.

Employees in the General Services department at Pennsylvania College of Technology are supporting a scholarship established by one of their own.

Visitors check out the structural integrity of students' construction work – including an assessment of whether the roof is sturdy enough "to hold Santa Claus." With the dean's assistance, each of the children donned the requisite eye protection and operated a power screwdriver.

Students from construction majors and several other disciplines skillfully represented Pennsylvania College of Technology during competition at the National Association of Home Builders International Builders’ Show recently held in Las Vegas.