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The college hosts skills contests in plumbing ... ... commercial baking ... ... precision machining ... ... and even nail care. Penn College was the site for more than 30 skills competitions Friday as faculty joined representatives from business and industry to help facilitate and judge the SkillsUSA District 6 competitions.

Bruce A. Emig, a Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member who died in May 2013 after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer, has been memorialized by a scholarship at the college. Emig’s wife, Cindy, endowed the scholarship in his memory. Emig was an assistant professor of HVAC technology who had been employed at Penn College since 1989.

Members of the ASHRAE student chapter, in a group photo with adviser David P. Socha (back row, fourth from right) The Penn College student chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers attended last week's ASHRAE winter conference in New York City.

The Field House is packed with students from area FBLA chapters. A student accepts applause during the post-competition awards ceremony. More than 800 students, representing school districts from Lycoming, Columbia, Sullivan and Tioga counties, packed the Field House on Thursday afternoon following a day of competition testing their business savvy.

A winter tradition has resumed in Harrisburg, as Pennsylvania College of Technology employees and students serve up an assortment of activities and attractions at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Representatives of Penn College's six academic schools take turns staffing a booth at the sprawling complex through Jan.

Schneider Electric has established an endowed scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology as part of the Penn College Scholarship Campaign. Hunter S. Forney, of Shippensburg, is the first recipient of an award from the Schneider Electric Scholarship.

Recognizing Pennsylvania College of Technology among its core partners for educating the next generation of construction managers, one of the largest general contractors in the United States has donated a piece of job-site technology to the institution.

A group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students placed third in the Associated Builders and Contractors’ National Construction Management Competition held recently in Las Vegas.

Thirty landscape architecture majors from The Pennsylvania State University received valuable hands-on experience in Penn College's masonry lab this past week. The traditional exercise gave Penn State students the opportunity to work with materials and processes that are often part of their designs: brick, block, artificial stone and archways.

Logan R. Bolopue A Penn College student's success with trials-motorcycle riding, a sport he has enjoyed for two-thirds of his life, was featured in his hometown newspaper this week. Thursday's editions of The (Lock Haven) Express chronicled the competitive victories of Logan R.