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In an Earth Day tradition (and on a typically unpredictable April day that saw traces of all four seasons), about 90 fifth-graders visited Penn College's Schneebeli Earth Science Center to celebrate the great outdoors. Moving among hands-on information stations staffed by forest technology students organized by professor Dennis F.

About 12 students participated in the Floral Arrangements Short Course held Tuesday evening in Penn's Inn. Christine A. Fink, a member of Penn College's horticulture faculty, led the course and taught students how to make elegant floral arrangements. The program, like others offered this year in the Bush Campus Center, was sponsored by the Student Activities Office. Photos by Michael J.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QM2TM-ZNRg Penn College's landscape/horticulture technology program is a thriving source of skilled workers for the nation's "green" industry, as evidenced by satisfied employers at a recent Career Fair in the School of Natural Resources Management. "Students from Penn College who are coming out ...

Pennsylvania College of Technology students from two academic areas were collaborators in providing covers to protect working surfaces on milling machines in the college's Machining Technologies Center.

Adding to the natural area outside the Children's Learning Center, members of the Horticulture Club recently built a tepee to provide shade for children at play. Instructor and club adviser Carl J. Bower Jr.

Born in the high-profile restoration of an automotive legend and abuzz ever since with student excitement at working on other vintage vehicles, Pennsylvania College of Technology's newest two-year major recently attracted a considerable boost.

Students in a Fixture Design and Fabrication course at Pennsylvania College of Technology gained hands-on experience by producing an oversized "bead roller" that will, in turn, help provide hands-on experience in a new automotive restoration major. The students custom made the bead roller, which creates a groove or "bead" in sheet metal.

Students in a Fixture Design and Fabrication course at Pennsylvania College of Technology gained hands-on experience by producing an oversized "bead roller" that will, in turn, help provide hands-on experience in a new automotive restoration major. The students custom made the bead roller, which creates a groove or "bead" in sheet metal.

A student in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management was awarded a $1,000 scholarship during the recent Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days at Kansas State University. Daniel A.

Forestry Field Day was held Monday at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood, giving 15 students from three schools the opportunity to see the nature-trail system, log yard and sawmill. The students representing Wellsboro and Bald Eagle high schools and West Branch Christian Academy also competed in Dendrology, Forest Mensuration, a Forestry Quiz Bowl, and Lumber and Log Scaling.