Events Articles

The Children's Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology will hold a 10th birthday party from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, at the Bush Campus Center on the College's main campus. To celebrate the anniversary, the center is inviting all former students/enrollees and their families to an open house on the lawn outside the Campus Center.

By Juli Reppert Student Writer/Photographer The Fall 2004 CoffeeHouse Series of musical performances at Pennsylvania College of Technology will begin Sept. 14 with acoustic guitarist Shevy Smith. The Tuesday performances are sponsored by the Office of Student Activities at Penn College and are held in the CoffeeHouse, located on the first floor of the Bush Campus Center.

By Juli Reppert Student Writer/Photographer Movies, filmmaking, dating and ghosts are among the remaining topics for the Fall 2004 Lecture Series at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The lectures are sponsored by the Office of Student Activities at Penn College. With one exception, they will be offered at Penn's Inn, located on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center, at 8 p.m. The Sept.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has its own high-power amateur or "ham" radio hidden within the ATHS. Amateur radio is a hobby that explores communications technologies.Radio amateurs or "hams" use radio in a variety of ways, such as communicating with people around the world, controlling robots, sending TV signals and even bouncing signals off the moon, meteors and the northern lights.

For the fifth year, the Office of the President, Alumni Relations and Student Activities are sponsoring "Penn College Pack the Park Night" with the Williamsport Crosscutters. The game, against the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, will begin at 7:05 p.m. Aug. 31 at historic Bowman Field.

The Gallery at Penn College on the main campus of Pennsylvania College of Technology will host the works of artist Leonard Ragouzeos from Aug. 24 to Sept. 17. Ragouzeos' work with India ink will be part of the show, "In Black and White." He is a professor in the art department at Millersville University where, since 1980, he has taught graphic design, basic design, calligraphy and typography.

Above, one of the third- to fifth-gradeinstructors at the Governor's Institute for Mathematics Educatorscompetes to see who could stack tiles the highest, reinforcing measuring skills. This Barbie didn't survive when high-school math teachers devised a formula to estimate how many rubber bands it would take to let Barbie drop closest to the floor of the ATHS atrium without hitting her head.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will host the Pennsylvania Governor's Institute for Mathematics Educators on July 26-30. The state Department of Education runs the institute, which is open to K-12 mathematics educators from public, private and charter schools throughout Pennsylvania. This is the third year Penn College has hosted the institute.

Forty girls are expected on the Pennsylvania College of Technology campus July 11-14 to explore science and math in hands-on fashion during the College's fourth annual SMART Girls (Science and Math Applications in Real-World Technologies for Girls) summer program. The residential session is for young women entering ninth and 10th grades.

The Williamsport Crosscutters have teamed with Pennsylvania College of Technology to add some local flavor to their "Salute to TV Night" scheduled for Tuesday, July 6, at historic Bowman Field.