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Residence hall and off-campus teams competed in a weeklong series of challenges – dodgeball, a Mario Kart tournament, pumpkin carving, Quizzo and bowling – during the recent "Hall-o-Wars" competition. – Photos by J.J. Boettcher and Rachel A. Eirmann, student photographers  

Pennsylvania College of Technology will feature battles of ingenuity later this month when it hosts SWORD Fall Fights 2018. Approximately 50 combat robots will “fight” in the double-elimination tournament that is open to the public. Trophies and gift certificates will be awarded to the top three finishers in the 1- and 3-pound weight classes.

Tomassacci accompanies students on a recent visit to High Steel Structures Inc. Walker (second from right) and engineering design students benefit from the college's proximity to one of the nation's biggest steel fabricators.

Students tour the arboretum's Children's Garden. Back row (from left): Burk; Smithmyer; students Benjamin A. Mowrer, Manheim; Jack R. Mannke, Glen Mills; Kendall A. Wanner, Denver, Pa.; Rachel A. Walton, Orwigsburg; Jeremy M. Smith, (in green hat, partially hidden), Erie; Anthony M. Schauble, (visible above the rest, with blonde hair), Nazareth; Joseph A. Kern, Mechanicsburg; James S.

Calling all runners, hikers and walkers: The Community Challenge needs YOU! The 2018 Community Challenge is set for Saturday, Nov. 10, and the Penn College community is invited to join the annual effort to raise funds for the Salvation Army of Williamsport.

With a skilled worker shortage presenting a tremendous opportunity for rewarding careers in the construction and design industry, Penn College's inaugural "PA Build Your Future" event introduced those varied vocational possibilities to hundreds of high school students from throughout the state.

"In this town we call home, everybody hail to the pumpkin song," say the lyrics in a modern-day film favorite, and Penn College students surely welcomed Halloween with a pair of juxtaposed traditions: kid-friendly hours for trick-or-treating at The Village Apartments on Wednesday, balanced by the following night's shudder-inducing attraction of the ever-expanding "Arc Asylum" haunted welding labor

Fall Open House visitors had unfettered access to Penn College's vibrant campuses Sunday, as today's faculty/staff, alumni and students provided them with a tantalizing view of a very real and credible tomorrow.

A CH-47F Chinook helicopter made two landings on the Madigan Library lawn Friday, picking up Penn College's Army ROTC cadets – and other members of the Lock Haven University-based Bald Eagle Battalion – for a field training exercise in Tioga County.

Human services students at Pennsylvania College of Technology are inviting the campus community and the public to attend “PCT HOPE,” a unique opioid awareness event to be held Saturday, Nov. 10, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Penn’s Inn on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center.