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For the fifth straight year, a commemorative Horticulture Club floral sale has resulted in a charitable contribution to Penn College's "Relay for Life" battle against cancer. On Wednesday afternoon, clubtreasurer Jeremy S. Frost, a Williamsport resident majoring in ornamental horticulture: plant production emphasis, delivered a $475.50 check to main campus.

The family of a young Pennsylvania College of Technology alumnus who died unexpectedly in October has established a scholarship fund at the college in his memory.

Pennsylvania College of Technology received a grant to continue as a Weld-Ed Regional Center in establishing the National Center for Welding Education and Training. Penn College is one of 10 regional partners for the National Science Foundation project, which began in 2007 and is led by Lorain County (Ohio) Community College. Its region includes 12 states and the District of Columbia.

Students in Penn College's School of Transportation Technology had the rare opportunity Tuesday to touch a piece of automotive history: a 1908 Ford Model K 6-40 "Gentleman's Roadster," which paid a visit to main campus on its return trip to the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey.

The Ford Motor Co. helped Pennsylvania College of Technology celebrate the dedication of its newly renovated and expanded Parkes Automotive Technology Center by providing the college with a new Ford Mustang. The 2011 Mustang GT Premium Edition convertible, valued at more than $40,000, was delivered in time for the dedication of the ATC part of the college's Stage X building program on Sept. 10.

A senior in Penn College's four-year building automation technology major is part of a short video that Southland Industries is using to promote its internship program. Clayton J.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's computer aided drafting technology major recently was recertified by the American Design Drafting Association. ADDA, an organization for designers, drafters, architects, illustrators and technical artists, provides certification to recognize schools whose design/drafting curriculum meets established and approved standards.

A business co-owned by two Pennsylvania College of Technology graduates will help install the landscape for an "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" project under way in Berks County. On Tuesday, volunteers from Nature's Accents Landscape Services Inc.

Garrett M. Book, a May graduate of Pennsylvania College of Technology's ornamental horticulture: landscape technology emphasis major, recently received word that he passed all four sections of the Pennsylvania Certified Horticulturist examination. The exam was offered to Penn College students by horticulture instructor Carl J.

Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's new renewable energy technologies major soon will benefit from a highly visible instructional tool: a 10-kilowatt wind turbine to be erected this fall near the college's Schneebeli Earth Science Center south of Williamsport. A $96,425 grant from the U.S.