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Anthony D. Di Liberto Anthony D. Di Liberto, a first-year student in Penn College’s automotive restoration technology major, is one of three students nationwide vying for tuition assistance from the RPM Foundation.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Woodsmen’s Team traveled to the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina to compete in the 21st Annual John Palmer Intercollegiate Woodsmen’s Meet on Oct. 1. This is the second trip to North Carolina in as many years for the team, which is part of the college’s Forestry Club.

Faculty members Golshan (left) and Yoas staff the grill with perfection ... ... satisfying a pavilion full of hungry hikers. And what's a cookout without the melted-marshmallow joy of s'mores? Students take to the foothills, surrounded by the natural beauty of Penn's Woods.

Di Liberto captivates his audience ... ... and Von Zwehl coaches a potential successor during an AACA youth program in Hershey.

Students from Penn College's engineering and industrial design technology majors recently summarized their summer internship experiences during presentations in College Avenue Labs, followed by question-and-answer opportunities that inspired their classmates. Jasmin Vega ...

A Pennsylvania College of Technology welding student has sparked national recognition by receiving a prominent industry scholarship. Katya E. Pechacek, a welding and fabrication engineering technology major from Fayetteville, New York, recently received the Air Products Women of Gases & Welding Scholarship.

A capacity crowd of students attends Friday's PDC presentation ... ... by Lars Christensen, a technical marketing manager for Autodesk. Representatives from the Autodesk software company presented "An Introduction to Fusion 360 for Design and Manufacture" among the National Manufacturing Day events hosted by Penn College.

A leaf-shrouded legacy invites passersby to sit a spell. Charitable high school classmates (from left) are Loretta Franzi, Geraldine Barnes, Harold Ingram, Kenneth Johnson and James Walbridge. A plaque commemorates the group's benevolence. Graphic design students Joseph N. Colyer, of Selinsgrove, and Felicia R. Hartzler, of Dover, stop by to greet and chat with the ’49 classmates.

Chef Paul Mach, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts, initiates a sausage-related straw poll. Joe Moore, territory sales representative for Jones Dairy Farm, and Kate Hunter, ’00, a food broker for Peak Sales & Marketing, talk encouragingly with students about the many directions their careers can take.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Board of Directors has approved a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies – the first graduate degree program ever to be offered at the institution, a special mission affiliate of Penn State. Penn College plans to begin offering courses leading to the master’s degree in the fall of 2017, with conferring of degrees to begin in 2022.