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With the help of Shawnalee E. Miller, Career Services secretary (left background), students manually form lowercase b's and d's as a "hand-y" way to remember which drink and bread plate go with their respective place setting. Students join their mentors for an après-dinner group photo. With a potential "meal ticket" at stake, student diners dress to impress.

Visiting Chef Kristi Ritchey, a 2002 Pennsylvania College of Technology culinary arts technology graduate and executive chef of Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop’s four Los Angeles-area restaurants, worked closely with students for three days to produce Friday’s Visiting Chef Dinner. The elegant dinner raises funds for scholarships and provides opportunities for students to work alongside top chefs.

Artwork of an icon will be shown in an exclusive exhibit at The Gallery at Penn College. “The Art and Illustrations of Zelda Fitzgerald” runs Nov. 14 through Dec. 15 at the gallery located on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Madigan Library.

Participants begin their benefit run. Healthy snacks (donated by Wegmans, Weis and Giant) wait at race's end. Jenny M. Maurer, technology services coordinator at the college's Madigan Library, is applauded at the finish.

Brightly colored course offers a surreal spin on a family favorite. Eighteen holes of black-light fun How often can you play mini-golf by starlight? Glow-in-the-dark miniature golf, sponsored by the Wildcat Events Board, transformed the Field House into a nocturnal playground Friday night. Glow Golf, free to all students, featured music, videos and a T-shirt giveaway.

Persistent drizzle forced relocation of Residence Life's first-ever Rose Street Carnival on Thursday, but failed to diminish the enthusiasm of participants. Crowds flocked to the Field House – with many of the students in Halloween get-up – for free food, a cornucopia of try-your-luck games, a pumpkin pie-eating contest, giveaways throughout the five-hour event ...

Participants receive appropriate T-shirts. Occupational therapy assistant student Gabrielle M. Leister has her face painted by a classmate. Decked for the occasion in glow paint, face paint and general pink splatters are, from left, pre-dental hygiene student Kirsta J. Ruble, pre-applied health studies: radiography student Gina M. Pucillo, and pre-occupational therapy assistant student Rachel E.

Before beginning work on their plain white sugar skulls, the lively Penn's Inn crowd is treated to Mexican snacks and a cultural presentation by Malinda C. Love. Alyssa J. Morales, a freshman in culinary arts and systems from Reading, gets to work on her creation. Samantha-Jo M. Bradley is all smiles with her completed sugar skull.

Beautiful smiles (and a few snaggle-toothed ones) punctuate a CA-organized Halloween event. Here's the scoop: patterns, tools and just the right canvas for seasonal carving Artistic expressions Commuter Assistants Cheston T. McAninch and Lauren J. Crouse hosted a pumpkin-carving and -painting program at the campus rock Tuesday.

Dealers from H.O Penn-CAT engage in table topics with sponsored students from Penn College's diesel technology and on-site power generation majors. Amelia A. Seaton (right) and her Le Jeune Chef colleagues – Joseph M. Trainor, maitre d'hotel, and Susan L. Shannon from the restaurant waitstaff – inspire students in navigating the choppy waters of fine dining. Erin J.