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Fall Open House visitors had unfettered access to Penn College's vibrant campuses Sunday, as today's faculty/staff, alumni and students provided them with a tantalizing view of a very real and credible tomorrow.

Built Environment Scholars tour LDG's Williamsport headquarters ... ... getting a real-world feel for their eventual careers. The School of Construction & Design Technologies' second-year cohort of Built Environment Scholars visited Larson Design Group on Tuesday. The 14 students – accompanied by Carol A. Lugg, dean, and Naim N.

A second gift of $500,000 from the Tamaqua-based John E. Morgan Foundation has boosted an endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology to more than $1 million. The John E.

​PA Build My Future – coordinated by Penn College's Building Construction Technology Department, College Transitions, and the School of Construction & Design Technologies – hosted approximately 800 secondary students and their chaperones on campus Thursday.

Students looking for a bold next step in their educational journey are encouraged to attend an Oct. 28 Open House at Pennsylvania College of Technology, where “future made by hand” is a template for success. “Visiting a college campus should be an experience. At Open House, students are able to touch, see and explore their future,” said Claire Z. Biggs, assistant director of admissions.

The disparate threads of Homecoming and Parent & Family Weekend were woven together again this fall, producing another seamless tapestry of fun and reconnection for graduates, current students and families.

Penn College graduates (from left) Jeffrey T. Feeman, Eric T. Metzler and Franklin N. Carr have found a calling at Sight & Sound Theatres, where audiences are awed by the on-stage results of their behind-the-scenes work. Three alumni use their skills to craft scenery and on-stage technology for the panoramic stage at Sight & Sound Theatres in Lancaster.

As Hintz and some of his students provide shelter from the storm, trowel-wielding construction majors smooth the freshly poured and leveled concrete. Reber (in plaid shirt at left) supervises students running a screed board across the new sidewalk.

CMA members celebrate their volunteer service with pictorial evidence of their record-setting accomplishment. (Courtesy of Rick Mason Photography) More than a dozen Penn College construction management students returned to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank this week, helping to pack boxes for the agency's Military Share program.

A school assignment required 9-year-old Trevin Allen to write about his dream. Rather than being a famous athlete, musician or movie star, the youngster expressed a desire to work as a computer designer in the plastics industry for SEKISUI SPI, which employs his father, Lucas L., a 2001 Penn College graduate in building construction technology.