Events Articles

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.

Penn College's third annual IT Conference, presented by Information Technology Services, was held Thursday in the Student and Administrative Services Center and Bush Campus Center. ITS employees were joined by their counterparts at other institutions to network, learn more about mutual challenges and meet with vendors.

Representatives of Penn College Police, Student Health Services and Student Affairs were among the attendees at Wednesday's first American Red Cross "Heroes Breakfast" at T.G.I. Friday's in Loyalsock Township.

A team of automotive technology students from Berks Career and Technology Center, Leesport, won the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition recently held on the Pennsylvania College of Technology campus.

More than 50 original works of art by dozens of Penn College employees are on exhibit in the Gallery at Penn College through June 30. The works include paintings, photographs, wood, ceramics, mixed media, fiber and metal. An opening reception was held Thursday in the gallery, on the third floor of Madigan Library, to showcase the magnificent manifestation of the employees' creative spirit.