Events Articles

Switchfoot, a 2011 Grammy Award winner for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album, continued its month-old winter tour with a Thursday gig at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Marking the college's yearlong centennial – and the recent release of its "Fading West" album – the quintet was joined by the Kopecky Family Band for a performance in the college's Bardo Gymnasium.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will host a Science Festival on Tuesday, Feb. 25, sponsored by the college and Technology Futures of North Central PA. The event, scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Penn College Field House, provides a variety of fun, hands-on math and science demonstrations geared toward elementary and middle school students, as well as their families.

Where reading is involved, everyone's a winner! Dennette D. Roan, a business administration: marketing concentration major from Bellefonte, helps son Garion make a yummy Valentine treat.

Greeting the crowd, Dorothy J. Gerring mentions the college and its Williamsport Symphony Orchestra affiliation, its 2014 centennial and the Frank Lloyd Wright "Samara" exhibition in The Gallery at Penn College through March 29. Colin W. Williamson (rear left) and Leah N. Nason (center foreground) join their symphony colleagues in performance on the CAC stage.

An Outdoor Expo – featuring a number of vendors, live animals, chain-saw demonstrations and a jerky competition – will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Field House. Sponsored by the college’s Student Activities Office, the family-friendly event is free and open to the public.

The Grammy Award-winning band Switchfoot will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20, in Pennsylvania College of Technology's Bardo Gymnasium. Touring in support of its recent release, “Fading West,” the million-selling quintet will appear as part of the college's yearlong Centennial celebration. The Kopecky Family Band, indie rockers from Nashville, Tenn., will open the show.

On March 1, Pennsylvania College of Technology will serve as a host site for the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists’ Association’s annual Sealant Saturday initiative. The event is scheduled 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The next installment of the Visiting Chef Series at Pennsylvania College of Technology will bring a taste of Maine, as chefs Brian O’Hea and Shanna Katherine Horner O’Hea mentor students to prepare an elegant benefit dinner.

The Gallery at Penn College has announced a call for entries for its “100 Works!” exhibition opening in October.

A new Penn College video shares a rare glimpse into “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home,” chronicling the famed architect's give-and-take over the design of an Indiana family's home. The exhibition, which opened in mid-January and runs through March 29 in The Gallery at Penn College, aptly ushers in a yearlong centennial celebration on campus.