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About 320 high school students from across the commonwealth converged on Penn College's main campus Sunday for Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week, an intensive program that employs corporate mentors and motivational speakers to educate teenagers about success in the competitive international marketplace.

A Summer Commencement ceremony will be held Saturday, Aug. 8, for the nearly 250 Pennsylvania College of Technology students who have petitioned to graduate after the summer sessions. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. in the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. Andrew R. Christoffel, of Lancaster, has been selected as the student speaker for the ceremony.

The fifth Governor's Institute on Career Education and Work drew 88 teachers and school district administrators to Pennsylvania College of Technology in June.

Rising ninth- and 10th-grade students attending this week's SMART Girls residential activities at Penn College visited the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood on Wednesday, learning about ornamental horticulture majors in the morning and spending the afternoon at the heavy construction equipment training site.

A group of high school and college welding teachers from around the nation are on campus for a Weld-Ed "Train the Trainer" workshop offered through the National Center for Welding Education and Training (Weld-Ed) at Lorain County Community College, Lorain, Ohio, and Penn College, a Weld-Ed regional center.

Participants in the ninth annual School of Natural Resources Management Scholarship Golf Outing recently enjoyed a near-perfect day at the White Deer Golf Course. Sunshine andan unseasonably cool breeze provided the ideal atmosphereat the 18-hole challenge course.

Pennsylvania College of Technology hosted its 10th annual residential SMART Girls (Science and Math Applications in Real World Technologies for Girls) program July 11-15. Thirty-six girls participated in the program, which is for young women entering ninth and 10th grades.

The Gallery at Penn College held an opening reception and gallery talk Thursday evening for "Arrested Motion" an exhibit by clay artists Cheryl Tall and Ceil Sturdevant, on display through Aug. 19. Summer hours at the gallery in effect through July 31 are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Regular hours, which resume Aug. 1, are 1-4 p.m.

Penn College's innovative Connections orientation program continued this week, as nearly 400 students and their guests recent high school graduates and nontraditional enrollees alike attended ice-breaking and informative sessions on main campus.

The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, will host "Arrested Motion," an exhibit by clay artists Cheryl Tall and Ceil Sturdevant, July 9-Aug. 19. Life and motion are captured in the artists' figurative images.