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Twelve students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management joined by an alumnus and a faculty member attended the recent Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days competition in Manhattan, Kan. Horticulture instructor Carl J. Bower Jr.

Sixteen students participated in the School of Natural Resources Management's second annual High School/CTC/AVTS Field Day, held in conjunction with Penn College's Spring Open House on March 24. Various students from each of the schools Derry Area High School (with seven students and instructor Roy Campbell); Franklin County Career and Technology Center (with six students and instructor David G.

Jeremy L. Thorne, a landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis major from Sugarloaf, has been chosen as Pennsylvania College of Technology's final "Student of the Month" for the Spring 2012 semester.

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.