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A family-owned business spanning three generations is making a financial commitment to the next generation of Pennsylvania College of Technology students. Benton Foundry Inc. recently endowed a scholarship, mainly for students in the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies. From left, Elizabeth A.

A long-standing alliance that prepares Pennsylvania College of Technology students for careers in a variety of fields will continue with the recent donation of $151,076 from the Caterpillar Foundation and a consortium of regional dealerships. Cleveland Brothers Equipment Co. Inc., Alban CAT, H.O. Penn Machinery Inc. Ransome CAT and Southworth-Milton Inc.

A $3,000 donation from PPL Corp. will benefit students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s various electrical majors. Teri MacBride, PPL’s regional affairs director, recently presented the check to the college’s Institutional Advancement Office for use in the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies’ Electrical Technology Program.

Myers, Matson-Warner and Mullner (from left) attach the ramp's trigger mechanism Thursday morning. Surveying with pride their know-how and craftsmanship, the students are joined by faculty member Troup (second from right). Matson-Warner demonstrates the starting ramp's ease of use, sending two cars on a brief parking-lot jaunt. (The maiden run was coincidentally witnessed by school dean David R.

Plastics employees from five states were schooled by industry experts and campus professionals when the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology held its sixth annual Heavy-Gauge/Cut-Sheet Thermoforming workshop in May.

They didn’t bring home a trophy, but a contingent of talented Pennsylvania College of Technology manufacturing students returned from an international competition with a winning experience. Five months of the students’ intensive outside-of-class work culminated at the recent Baja SAE in Mechanicsville, Maryland.

3-D printing is much more than a buzz term at Penn College. The printers are a reality for students, who long have engaged in additive manufacturing in the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies. "They are driving the car instead of just looking at it from a distance in the showroom," says Eric K.

The renowned Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology extended its expertise to plastics professionals throughout the country by hosting the seventh annual Hands-On Rotational Molding & Advanced Materials Workshop earlier this month.

A Jersey Shore Area High School student was presented with the 2015-16 Peggy Madigan Memorial Leadership Scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Sapphire E. Naugle, of Jersey Shore, will enroll in the plastics and polymer engineering technology baccalaureate major at Penn College for Fall 2015. The scholarship – named in memory of the late wife of former state Sen. Roger A.

Following the lead of metal sculptor and welding instructor Michael K. Patterson, welding majors at Penn College employed their skills to create "Student Bodies," abstract human forms that line the main campus mall. The project, one of three outdoor art installations dedicated during the college's 2014 Centennial celebration, is chronicled in a new YouTube video.