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Nearly all members of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s SkillsUSA team earned medals during the April 10-12 Pennsylvania Leadership and Skills Conference in Hershey – 20 of them advancing to this summer's 55th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, through their gold-worthy performances.

The Dunham Children’s Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology received a $92,118 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help lower child care fees for eligible students who enroll their children at the facility. The funding is known as a CCAMPIS grant, which stands for Child Care Access Means Parents in School.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is set to provide a quicker pathway to a baking and pastry arts career through a new 12-month certificate in professional baking and a revision to its associate degree in baking and pastry arts that will make a degree obtainable in 16 months.

Twenty-seven members of the Penn College Motorsports Association participated in Friday’s 15th annual Toyota Green Grand Prix, which promotes innovation in sustainable transportation technologies while launching the season-opening weekend at New York’s renowned Watkins Glen International racetrack. Van Stavoren (left) and victorious students celebrate their success. Thomas M.

Alumni panelists (from left) McLeland, Keyser, Williams and Gray offer truthful and humorous insight into their career paths. (Photo by Stephenson) A full house of graphic design and advertising art students gathers for the weekend presentations. McLeland describes some of her comical and complex rebranding adventures.

Teamwork in action Shimmering with athleticism and energy ... ... and earning the spotlight ... ... the Wildcat Dance Team delivers a winning performance. Penn College’s Wildcat Dance Team held a spring “Take the Stage” benefit Saturday afternoon in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium, the first of two performances within the week.

Helpful employees from student-focused offices were on hand to shepherd tomorrow's grads through today's task list. Building construction technology students Logan L. Bathurst (left), of Lock Haven, and Jason M. Zucco, of Bellefonte, stand ready to graduate in the May 18 morning ceremony.

Representing PC Alliance are (from left) Victor M. Marino; Brianna E. Milden, the organization's president; Kai F. Marshall; and adviser Cathy E. Gamez. With the rainbow flag about to be raised, Elliott Strickland, vice president for student affairs, offers remarks. Also participating are Milden (center) and Sammie L. Davis, coordinator of diversity and cultural life.

An artistic angle is the focus for Hunter M. Zill, an automated manufacturing technology major from Hanover ... ... who got just the image he sought. The artist's arrows provide a literal point of view for Brianna M. Farmer, a baking and pastry arts student from McKean. “Every Which Way” is more than an exhibit title! Mahoney (right) assists Yvette B. Moore with camera settings.

Student managers for the event, Gray and Jordan, plate the dessert: key lime pie with coconut panna cotta. Students Jordan, Showers and Meszaros look over the main course before serving: an herb-and-garlic-crusted loin of beef with classic au jus lié and potato cake. Callahan prepares seared scallops. Shannon and Gray plate an intermezzo of tropical citrus sorbet.