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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.

Nearly 40 people of all ages visited The Gallery at Penn College on July 10 as part of the James V. Brown Library’s Summer Learning program. The program’s theme is “Color Our World,” and the library planned a visit to The Gallery’s aptly colorful “Five Artists” fiber arts exhibition.

Beginning July 1, the Community Arts Center – owned and operated by Pennsylvania College of Technology – will be known as Journey Bank Community Arts Center.

Pennsylvania College of Technology nursing students promoted community health through a series of Donate Life events, designed to educate the community about organ donation and encourage individuals to register as donors. They joined student groups from 11 other colleges in the Gift of Life College Challenge, and it was announced in June that Penn College’s students finished in second place for their efforts and registered 265 people to become organ donors – the most of any college in the challenge.

Pennsylvania College of Technology nursing students promoted community health through a series of Donate Life events, designed to educate the community about organ donation and encourage individuals to register as donors. They joined student groups from 11 other colleges in the Gift of Life College Challenge, and it was announced in June that Penn College’s students finished in second place for their efforts and registered 265 people to become organ donors – the most of any college in the challenge.