Events Articles

Under boundless autumn sunshine, brightened even further by the friendliness of faculty/staff and students, Pennsylvania College of Technology held a record-breaking Fall 2009 Open House on Sunday.

Disability Awareness Day, a walk-in event sponsored by Disability Services and held Thursday in Penn's Inn, exposed participants to the barriers that people with disabilities sometimes encounter. Interactive activities called Project A.B.L.E.

Students and alumni looking for postgraduate jobs or valuable internships were encouraged to attend Penn College's Fall 2009 Career Fair, held Oct. 20-21 in Penn's Inn on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center.

The Rev. Hermann Scheipers, a German Catholic priest who survived life in the Dachau concentration camps and, at age 96, continues to vibrantly tell the tale spoke to a standing-room-only audience in Klump Academic Center on Monday evening. His visit, sponsored by the International Programs Office and arranged by Steven J.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will offer a Veterans Transition Services Information Session on Nov. 11 for Penn College veterans, veterans returning from deployment, their families and the general public. The program hosted by Veterans Affairs, Career Services, Counseling Services and Disability Services at Penn College will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

WBRE-TV aired a segment Monday evening about Penn College hospitality students preparing a tea luncheon at Le Jeune Chef to benefit the American Rescue Workers Men's Center in Williamsport.

The Penn College community will be well-represented at "The Music of Billtown," a benefit concert in memory of longtime Billtown Blues Association member and freelance photographer Susan Bacchieri, to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Community Arts Center. Bands scheduled to perform are In the Kitchen, featuring Douglas M.

High school students from school districts far and wide visited Penn College's campuses to learn about potential careers through a full Friday of exciting hands-on activities and informative tours. The college's Outreach for K-12 Office each fall organizes Career Day for students in 10th through 12th grades; a similar event for seventh- to ninth-graders is held every spring.

Current job opportunities and issues in the accounting field will be among the topics addressed in a discussion sponsored by Pennsylvania College of Technology's Accounting Society and faculty from the college's School of Business and Computer Technologies. The roundtable will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.

The second annual Floor Pong tournament, organized by Campus View Resident Assistant Ashlin R. Hollinger, was held Wednesday night in the Field House. Promoted by word of mouth and a YouTube video linked from the student portal, the event reintroduced the campus to a variation on table tennis in which surfaces beyond the table are fair game.