Students Articles

Pennsylvania College of Technology soccer teams go into Saturday’s United East Conference quarterfinal matches with similar goals — win and move on.

On Oct. 8, 19 Pennsylvania College of Technology landscape/plant production technology students took a trip to Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, where they met with several graduates and toured the facility.

In a mid-week United East win at Cedar Crest College, coach Kyle Hawk’s women’s volleyball team secured its first five-win season since 2016. On Saturday, playoffs begin for the men's and women's soccer teams, the men's and women's cross-country teams will run in the conference championships, and the college's wrestlers will step into action.

Career Services is set to host the last of this semester’s nine Recruitment Days on Oct. 29. Thus far, the events have brought 570 students into contact with dozens of employers who came to campus seeking to connect with students.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology aviation student is one of 15 nationwide recipients of scholarships awarded at the recent National Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas. Liam B. Rosenfield, of Goshen, Connecticut, received the William M. Fanning Maintenance Scholarship.

Students in the Masonry Principles class, taught by Scott A. Bierly, instructor of building construction technology, recently applied their hands-on skills at the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center. Two sections of the class spent time at the campus – near Montgomery – to replace the bottom portion of two timber columns at the entrance of the center’s main building.

Fourteen Penn College students volunteered much of their morning to serve as mentors to middle school and high school students who filled the Field House last week to learn about developing business plans.

The men’s and women’s soccer teams won both of their matches, with the women now assured of their fourth straight playoff appearance and their ninth postseason trip in the NCAA era (since 2014), while the men’s golf and women’s volleyball teams also saw action, and a women’s tennis player earned a United East Conference honor.

Seven employers will be recruiting Penn College students at "pop-up" recruitment tables Oct. 20-23.

Work at a Habitat for Humanity home being built largely by students on Fifth Avenue, just north of campus, continues to progress. The college and Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity staff hosted a cookout and open house at the site on Thursday, inviting those who worked on the home over the past three semesters to see the current progress.