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Forty Penn State architecture majors traveled to Pennsylvania College of Technology on Wednesday, working side-by-side with faculty and students from Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies.

Seventeen students from Pennsylvania College of Technology recently traveled to national competition in Las Vegas, finishing respectably in a strong field and attracting recognition for their leadership.

About 40 students of C. Timothy Baird, associate professor of landscape architecture at The Pennsylvania State University, traveled to Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies on Thursday. Rotating among masonry-lab workstations and supervised by skilled Penn College students, the guests received several hours of up-close instruction in a variety of building-stone media.

On an appropriately sunny Thursday afternoon, students from Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies set the poles that will anchor an array of solar panels southwest of the Victorian House.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology students are among 40 recipients of 2009-10 "Build Your Future" scholarships from Centex Homes and the National Housing Endowment.

Winners in the You Be the Judge competition, in which the Penn College community was enlisted to choose among the eye-catching craftsmanship of students in the School of Construction and Design Technologies' masonry emphasis, have been announced. First place, shown in photo at far left, went to Zig-Zag, constructed by Cody R. Smith, of Clearville,and Jerry D.

Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies welcomed nearly 50 architecture students from The Pennsylvania State University on Monday. Moving through workstations in the school's masonry lab, the Penn State students traveling with Ute Poerschke, associate professor in Penn State's Department of Architecture took trowels in hand to lay brick, block and stone.

A Penn College team of associate-degree students finished second in this week's National Association of Home Builders' Student Chapters Residential Construction Management Competition, held in conjunction with the International Builders Show in Las Vegas. Members of the two-year team are Benjamin H. Clark, Zachary T. McAllister, Michael J. Reier, Erich L. Snyder and Brian D. West.

Two teams of Penn College students and their faculty supporters are in Las Vegas this week for the National Association of Home Builders' Student Chapters Residential Construction Management Competition, sponsored by Centex and held in conjunction with the association's International Builders Show at Caesars Palace.

The glory of real-world experience and the glare of reality television recently intersected for a group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students and their mentors, who traveled to Franklin County for an "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" construction project to benefit a family dedicated to helping special-needs youngsters.