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Tom Speicher, writer/video producer, has won a 2025 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for his broadcast work with WVIA-TV's 2024 Little League Challenger Exhibition Game.

More than 700 riders took to the trails at Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center for the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Cycling League’s youth mountain bike race.

State Sen. Gene Yaw, chair of the Pennsylvania College of Technology board of directors, recently received the 2025 W. Howard Hartman Little League Friendship Award.

Over the weekend, Penn College Police officer Jeffrey E. Kriner was among local law enforcement personnel taking part in a special back-to-school tradition. He joined officers from the Williamsport Bureau of Police, Pennsylvania State Police and Lycoming County Sherriff’s Office to partner with 10 local students for the third annual “Shop With a Cop” event at Target.

As part of a partnership that dates to the excavation of Lamade Stadium in 1959, the Little League Baseball World Series yields hands-on learning activities for Penn College students. In just the series' first four days, photographers captured the activities of paramedic, baking & culinary, and welding students.

Penn College treated the 20 competing Little League Baseball World Series teams to an afternoon of food and fun before the teams headed to the Grand Slam Parade that stepped off just a block away from main campus. Also appearing in the parade was a Penn College float, featuring the academic offerings at the Earth Science Center campus.

Watch the journey of a new sculpture installed recently at the Little League International Complex in South Williamsport. The sculpture was devised by Little League staff, who envisioned a huge globe that could serve as a photo prop for the tens of thousands of visitors who will make their way to the complex during the upcoming Little League Baseball World Series. To make it happen, they turned to the experts at Penn College.

Williamsport’s first Chick-fil-A opened to the public Thursday! Before the crowds rushed in, Penn College’s Wildcat was invited to rub elbows with the restaurant chain’s own mascot – the Cow.

A team of Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently completed the U.S. Department of Energy’s BuildingsNEXT challenge – and simultaneously provided the City of Williamsport a picture of what a net-zero energy youth facility in the city could look like. The BuildingsNEXT Student Design Competition – formerly the Solar Decathlon – encourages college students to design high-performance buildings that improve quality of life through great affordability, resiliency and energy efficiency.

Pennsylvania College of Technology welding students are the spark behind an eye-catching addition to the Little League Baseball World Series complex in South Williamsport: a roughly 7-foot-tall stainless steel globe structure featuring metal cutouts shaped to represent the continents. “This is probably one of the most unique projects we’ve done," said Michael R. Allen, instructor and co-department head of welding.