Scholarships Articles

Long-standing Pennsylvania College of Technology partner Chesapeake Energy has increased its support of students by establishing an endowed scholarship at the college. Awards from the scholarship will begin during the 2023-24 academic year. The Chesapeake Energy Endowed Scholarship may be used by students to defray the costs of tuition, fees, books, tools, required instructional supplies and any other eligible education expenses.

A $50,000 gift from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation will provide scholarships to Pennsylvania College of Technology students age 25 and older who have completed at least half of the requirements and credits toward their bachelor’s degrees.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student is the recipient of a scholarship from a foundation dedicated to supporting packaging and processing education throughout North America. Marissa R. Rupert, of Danville, is one of six students nationwide to receive a $5,000 PACK EXPO scholarship from the PMMI Foundation of the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.

The 37th Annual Penn College Foundation Golf Classic, featuring eight-time PGA Tour and nine-time PGA Tour Champions winner Fred Funk, raised $104,215 for student scholarships at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students received nearly a third of all scholarships from a national foundation devoted to skilled manufacturing careers. Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs – the foundation of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International – awarded the $1,500-$2,500 scholarships to full-time undergraduate students enrolled in a certificate or degree program leading to a manufacturing career.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology students received financial assistance through the Allan Myers Corporate Scholars Program, just one of the ways the mid-Atlantic’s largest heavy civil contracting firm encourages the institution’s tomorrow makers.

Fifteen Student Leadership & Involvement Awards – as well as a scholarship or three – were recently presented in the Thompson Professional Development Center. The program, a heartwarming tradition of the Office of Student Engagement, honors campus leaders, their mentors among Penn College's faculty and staff, and the student organizations that have left their mark on yet another academic year.

The Electrical Department hosted a celebration this past week for its students receiving awards as part of Spring Commencement exercises in mid-May.

Alumni chefs Kristina Wisneski, ’13, culinary arts & systems, and Alisha (Howell) Summa, ’12, baking & pastry arts, returned to their roots for the Visiting Chef Dinner – last held in 2019.

Friday's meeting of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Construction Management Advisory Committee, many of them alumni and all of them strongly aware of the college's reliable contribution to tomorrow's workforce, featured more than thousands of dollars in student scholarships.