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As part of Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week activities on campus, alumni Daniel R. Little and Lauren J. Schuman, both '05, and current students Brian D. Walton and Larissa D. Kryder served on a Thursday afternoon panel to talk about life as a Penn College student and as an alumnus in the workplace.

Having fun and beating the heat were the names of the games in Thursday's "Wacky Olympics," marking the final day of this year's Summer Youth Adventure Camp. Over the past few months, campers have enjoyed swimming, bowling, field trips, special visitors, and cooking and crafts projects.

Participants in Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week, spending this session on Penn College's main campus, got a close look at the institution's "degrees that work" during a tour Wednesday.

While welcoming the first generation to be fully immersed in technology, Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour on Monday urged a roomful of teenagers to tune out cellphones, text messages and e-mail long enough to tune into the moment and engage their fellow human beings. "Multitasking is only interrupting one thing to do something else," she said.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will hold a commencement ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 9, for the nearly 250 students who have petitioned to graduate from the college after the summer sessions. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. in the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. Jasmine Elmore, of Jersey Shore, will be the student speaker for the ceremony.

For the first time, Penn College is hosting Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week, a program that attracts highly motivated rising high school juniors. Students (accompanied briefly Sunday by their parents) will stay on campus through Aug. 2, enjoying a unique weeklong opportunity to explore the college's academic programs, cocurricular opportunities, multitude of support services and facilities.

Another hands-on activity was held Friday to supplement the "Japan Juxtaposed: Traditional Textiles/Modern Images" exhibit in The Gallery at Penn College (Madigan Library, third floor) through Aug. 6. The workshop, "Stitched Shibori on Pashmina Scarves," was held in the library and at the Bush Campus Center.

The automobile industry's future, of keen interest to the automotive teachers mentoring tomorrow's vehicle technicians, is today's reality at Penn College. The North American Council of Automotive Instructors, holding its 35th annual conference on campus, heard presentations Tuesday on vehicles that use technology to reduce petroleum dependency and greenhouse-gas emissions.

Technology and straight-from-the-headlines topicality combine with socializing and sightseeing at this week's 35th annual conference of the North American Council of Automotive Teachers being hosted at Penn College. More than 200 instructors registered for the event, which began Monday morning with elections and a keynote address in the college's Klump Academic Center.

The eighth annual NRM Golf Invitational, held July 9 at the White Deer Golf Course, proved a fun outing for participants and another success for students in Penn College's School of Natural Resources Management. A total of 64 golfers took part, including industry representatives, 16 alumni and 20 college employees among them Wayne R. Longbrake, retired dean of the school.