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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.

The Rotational Molding Center of Excellence at Pennsylvania College of Technology hosted its first Rotational Molding Workshop June 10-11.

About 300 new students and their families attended the first Connections orientation program for the Fall 2009 semester, held June 24-25 across Pennsylvania College of Technology's main campus.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Plastics Manufacturing Center held its 11th Annual Extrusion Seminar & Hands-On Workshop on the college's campus in early June.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently hosted 22 area high school students on campus during its free Discover Engineering Technology Camp.

Few institutions would mark a 20th anniversary while planning for a centennial celebration just five years later, but Pennsylvania College of Technology plans to do just that. Twenty years ago, on July 1, 1989, the legislation that created Penn College was signed into law by Gov. Robert P. Casey.

The School of Health Sciences recently held two summer camps for high school students interested in exploring the health-care profession: the third annual EMT/Paramedic Camp on June 5-7, and the ninth annual Health Careers Camp, June 10-12.