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President Gilmour welcomes Sen. Casey to campus and remarks on the important role his father, then governor of Pennsylvania, played in the institution's past. Casey checks out products created in the labs, including Penn College key-ring tags, with guidance from student Wilson R. Michael (at right). Casey extends a warm greeting to student Noah L.

Links bloom where they're planted! Penn College's busy student Links, crucial liaisons in the orientation process, are wrapping up their traditional (and transitional) summer duties as another academic year draws ever closer. The students have completed a half-dozen two-day Connections sessions and, this week, are holding single-day programs for adult learners and transfer students.

For the second consecutive year, more than 50 Pennsylvania College of Technology students proved their computer-aided design prowess by passing a prominent industry certification test. The students successfully completed the Certified SolidWorks Associate exam. SolidWorks is a 3-D modeling, computer-aided software program employed by more than 3 million product designers and engineers worldwide.

Delicious artwork is served! A mosaic overflowing with healthy options Within each piece, the artists’ names can be found. A scoop of summertime Brianna M. Young, a Residence Life summer conference assistant, stops by Dauphin (with a Popsicle in hand) to check out the new works of art.

An incoming first-year student at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been awarded a $5,000 scholarship administered by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship,” awarded jointly by the VFW and the national Sport Clips Haircuts chain, was granted to Preston A.

Six students enrolled in emergency management technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology are honing their skills and helping their communities while serving in internships this summer. Penn College emergency management technology students, including Emily V. Lenhart (right), of New Tripoli, participate in a tornado disaster exercise at the Emergency Operations Center in Williamsport.

A Life Flight crew – always made up of a pilot, flight registered nurse and paramedic, introduce students to Life Flight operations. Paramedic Gregg Martuccio straps a student volunteer in for transport. A crew from Geisinger Medical Center’s Life Flight medical transport fleet made its annual landing on the Madigan Library lawn on Thursday.

Kimberly R. Cassel (on stage), director of student activities, and the Links warm up the Klump Academic Center crowd. Lauren J. Crouse (kneeling), an applied human services major and one of this summer's lead Links, gets acquainted with her assigned first-year students.

A determined group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students enrolled in manufacturing-related majors proved to be among the best in the world at a recent high-powered international competition. The nine-member Penn College contingent produced three top-five showings for individual events and finished 11th overall out of 98 collegiate teams at Baja SAE Rochester.

This summer's Links and Madigan Library: two sources of valuable information for Penn College students. Front row (from left): Nina L. Walk, of Bellefonte, graphic design; Lindsey A. King, Hanover, pre-applied health studies: occupational therapy assistant concentration; Alexandra D. Petrizzi, Langhorne, dental hygiene: health policy & administration concentration; David A.