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'tis the season for painting pumpkins Giant Jenga requires dexterity and a keen eye to dislodge just the right block ... ... which isn't always "the right block!" Free candy: A sweet incentive for a serious cause Community Peer Educator Alexis J. Medero lofts a beanbag toward its target.

Two Oklahoma-based employees of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP – Jon D. Ratzlaff, technical services manager, and Tom Giovannetti, technical service engineer – recently visited main campus, sharing on-the-job pointers with Penn College plastics students. Ratzlaff encourages students to get involved –and stay involved – with SPE.

An emergency management technology major who is a survivor of last year's Las Vegas shooting shared her story with fellow Pennsylvania College of Technology students and faculty Monday night in the Student & Administrative Services Center’s Presentation Room.

Human services students and faculty engaged in an enlightening educational outing on Friday with a visit to the Hazleton One Community Center, which was launched by Hazleton native and beloved Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon. Human services students and their chaperones gather outside the Hazleton One Community Center.

About 45 students in Penn College’s School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies employed their skills to “spooky” effect during the fifth annual Virtual Pumpkin Carving Contest. The competition required the engineering design students to use software to create virtual jack-o’-lanterns.

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.