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Employees and students staff check-in tables in Dauphin Hall's Capitol Eatery. Emma J. Sutterlin, an applied health studies: occupational therapy assistant concentration major from State College, is among Connections' invaluable student Links. Encouraging incoming students and their families to “share their memories,” Paul R.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students representing seven different majors recently proved their mastery of computer aided drafting and design software programs by passing certification exams. Fifty-two students successfully completed the Certified SolidWorks Associate exam and one student earned Autodesk Inventor Professional certification.

From left: Mitchell J. Berninger, a junior in web and interactive media from Williamsport; Emma J. Sutterlin, junior, applied health studies: occupational therapy assistant concentration, State College; Morgan J. Tannery, junior, applied health studies: occupational therapy assistant concentration, Millersburg; Lauren J. Crouse, senior, applied human services, Turbotville; Kyle D.

Bill Rothermel (right), master of ceremonies, gets acquainted with students and faculty – including co-advisers Shaun D. Hack (center) and Roy H. Klinger, second from right. Bollinger talks with young judges from the Hagerty Education Program (under the guidance of Tabitha Hammer, youth supervisor), who awarded third prize to the Scripps-Booth.

Mallery engages the crowd. Runners, walkers and trotters – including Melanie A. Scaife, secretary to residence life at Rose Street Commons (in black at center right) – traverse Indian Park. Kimberly R. Cassel, director of student activities, helps set the pace, finishing 39th overall with a time of 28:37. Accenting the day's sunshine with her smile is Watson, a summer conference assistant.

Countdown to College Coach A national higher-education blogger, offering parents of college-bound teens a lifeline in the sea of options, has posted two more articles distilled from her late-April visit to Penn College. In one of those postings, Suzanne Shaffer tells of the distinction between career preparation and merely getting a job after graduation. "That's the key," she writes.

Richard A. Knecht (background), director of Lycoming County Emergency Management Agency, watches as students Christopher H. Warney, of Williamsport, and Jamie L. Steer, of South Williamsport, take action. Shakeem J. Thomas (right), of Brooklyn, N.Y., joins Warney (left) and Corbin P. Snyder, of Harrisburg, in a busy downtown conference room.

Myers, Matson-Warner and Mullner (from left) attach the ramp's trigger mechanism Thursday morning. Surveying with pride their know-how and craftsmanship, the students are joined by faculty member Troup (second from right). Matson-Warner demonstrates the starting ramp's ease of use, sending two cars on a brief parking-lot jaunt. (The maiden run was coincidentally witnessed by school dean David R.

They didn’t bring home a trophy, but a contingent of talented Pennsylvania College of Technology manufacturing students returned from an international competition with a winning experience. Five months of the students’ intensive outside-of-class work culminated at the recent Baja SAE in Mechanicsville, Maryland.

Pennsylvania College of Technology physician assistant student Filippo D. “Flip” Borsellino, now looking forward to his final two rounds of clinical internships before graduating in August, encountered a doctor, a community – and a tragedy – that have helped to shape his goals as a health care provider.