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A group of state representatives recently visited Pennsylvania College of Technology to learn more about the emergency management & homeland security program and further explore the Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives system.

On Tuesday, Penn College’s Mackenzi Tice became the first pitcher to take the mound at the Williamsport Lumber Yards, a new baseball and softball facility built just south of campus by the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce.

WNEP-TV reporter Mackenzie Aucker spent Monday morning in the Penn College welding lab with students who are refurbishing a rescue boat and trailer for the all-volunteer Montgomery Emergency Management Agency.

State and local officials gathered at a Habitat for Humanity home that is under construction just north of campus on Friday to tour the nearly complete project, built largely by students in Penn College’s construction and architectural technologies division, and to highlight the state’s Housing Action Plan to alleviate a shortage of homes in Pennsylvania.

Nearly 150 people attended the closing reception of “Made by Hand: An Exhibition of Tomorrow Makers.”

Over 20 electrical construction students from Pennsylvania College of Technology are responsible for brightening the gymnasium and lobby of the Williamsport YMCA.

More than 200 students from 16 school districts attended a Pennsylvania Senate Student Government Seminar at Penn College on Thursday. Hosted by state Sen. Gene Yaw, who is also chair of Penn College’s Board of Directors, the mock senate session allowed attendees to sit on committees, develop their positions on legislation, debate issues and learn what it takes to get a law passed or defeated.

Penn College grad Judi Jessick ’02 returned to campus Feb. 26 to read the second volume in her Agatha Livermore picture book series to the Butterflies classroom at the Dunham Children’s Learning Center.

Penn College and the Scouting America Susquehanna Council teamed up on Saturday to offer 20 merit badges in the college’s state-of-the-art labs, with instruction from the college’s faculty experts.

Forty-two girls, in kindergarten to sixth grade, attended Penn College’s annual Girls and Women in Sports Day Clinic on Feb. 8, where they not only received instruction from Penn College’s women’s athletes and coaches, but learned wider lessons about self-esteem and what it means to be a girl in sports.