Events Articles

By Juli Reppert, student writer/photographer Pennsylvania College of Technology is joining the fun for the Williamsport Mardi Gras celebration by offering a variety of activities on campus and sponsoring a float in the downtown parade. On Feb. 24, "The Crawdaddies" will perform at 9 p.m. at the Field House on the college's main campus.

The fourth annual "Kickoff, Mix-Off, Send-Off," a celebration encouraging students to make good decisions regarding alcohol and other drugs, travel, and sexual behavior during Spring Break, will be held Feb. 28 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The event, which will be offered from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Actor-comedian Dave Coulier, whose many credits include the starring role of Joey Gladstone on the popular ABC-TV series "Full House" from 1987-95, will perform Saturday, Feb. 25, at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Tickets to the performance, which will be held at 9 p.m.

Penn College student Matthew L. Gross, right, of Dover, a plastics and polymer engineering technology major, demonstrates for state Rep. Brett O. Feese, left, the thermoformer that makes up the college's mobile poly lab. Gross and fellow plastics and polymer engineering technology student Todd P.

A NASA engineer will be on campus for Pennsylvania College of Technology's Visitation Day on Saturday, April 1, offering several presentations about the future of aviation. Donner Grigsby, a certified information systems security professional at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia and the agency's 2004 "Speaker of the Year" is scheduled to speak at 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Twenty-four students from home-school associations across the region spent the morning on campus in laboratories of the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies. The students participated in hands-on activities in computer animation, fiber optics, robotics and plastics.

School districts from across Pennsylvania will send students to Pennsylvania College of Technology's Career Day on March 6 to explore career choices through hands-on activities and tours. The event is open to students in grades seven through nine, and schools as far away as Adams, Bedford and Cumberland counties typically bring busloads of students to the event.

What would you talk about if you knew you had only one more chance in your lifetime to speak to a group of students? In this brand-new series offered by the Student Activities Office, Penn Collegeprofessors have been challenged to answer that question.

Dental hygiene students and faculty from Pennsylvania College of Technology, working with volunteer dental hygienists, provided free oral screenings, sealants and education for 118 as part of the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists' Association's statewide Sealant Saturday program on Feb. 4..

A speaker gifted in his ability to discuss complex biology in engaging terms will be the next presenter in Pennsylvania College of Technology's William C. Butler Lecture Series. Robert Sylwester, an emeritus professor of education at the University of Oregon, will present a public lecture at 7 p.m. March 14 in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium.