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Employers recruiting from the varied Penn College majors that provide the manufacturing sector with a well-prepared workforce – from welding to plastics to electronics, just for starters – were duly impressed with the caliber of students they encountered at this month's campus Career Fair.

A Boeing 727-200F aircraft from FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) made its final descent Wednesday onto the runway at the Williamsport Regional Airport. Celebration of this landing and tremendously generous donation to Pennsylvania College of Technology took place at the college's Lumley Aviation Center. A tour of the aircraft followed its arrival.

A new scholarship fund will memorialize a Blair County surveyor who helped develop curriculum for students at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Ellis James Edwards/New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co.

About 25 students in forestry instructor Jack E. Fisher's Wildlife Management class got hands-on exposure to birds of prey, as Master Falconer Cheri Heimbach returned to the School of Natural Resources Management this week. One of about 150 falconers in Pennsylvania, Heimbach brought along a Barbary Falcon, a Red-tailed Hawk, an Eagle Owl and a Harris's Hawk.

Green careers are the focus of the latest episode of "degrees that work.tv," an award-winning documentary series produced by Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA Public Media. Rewarding career possibilities in energy efficiency and renewable energy are explored during the show, which premieres throughout northeastern and northcentral Pennsylvania on April 12 at 8 p.m. on WVIA-TV.

Pennsylvania College of Technology was the recent host of FIRST Tech Challenge's Pennsylvania Championship Tournament, providing a home and a small army of volunteers for a day full of high-level robotics competition among high school teams from seven states. Thirty teams of enterprising ninth- to 12th-grade students, surrounded by supporters, filled Penn College's Field House on Feb.

The work of a Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate who is shaping the training received by thousands of Toyota technicians is featured in the latest video added to thecollege's YouTube Channel. The nearly four-minute video highlights Ryan M. Black, a 2005 graduate of the automotive technology management bachelor-degree major.

Three Penn College students returned home over Spring Break, sharing the benefits of their postsecondary education with three classes at Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School. Carol A. Lugg, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management, joined the trio Luke C. Laughlin and Scott M. Ziegler, of Butler, and Benjamin J.

In a more focused midterm getaway than enjoyed by some collegiate counterparts, students from the School of Natural Resources Management toured a series of career-related sites during their recent Spring Break.

A video created by students in plastics and polymer technology majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology was named the winner in the Society of Plastics Industry's "Shaping Your World" student video contest. SPI invited all college and graduate school students studying in plastics programs to submit original videos that honor plastics' innovation.