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Forest technology student Dustin S. Beane and Carol A. Lugg, coordinator of matriculation and retention for the School of Natural Resources Management, visited students enrolled in the forestry program at Kane Area High School on Thursday to discuss opportunities in Penn College's forest technology major.

As another semester gives way to eventual summer, Pennsylvania College of Technology's Residence Life Office announces its year-end honorees in on-campus housing. Brent K. Hey, of Chambersburg, majoring in residential construction technology and management: building construction technology concentration, was named the Resident Assistant of the Year. Kelvin S.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has presented student achievement awards to its May 2012 graduates. A total of 962 students petitioned to graduate at the conclusion of the spring semester, and three commencement ceremonies were held May 11-12 at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport. Penn College is a special mission affiliate of The Pennsylvania State University.

Fourteen student leaders were honored Thursday during the 16th annual Penn College Awards banquet at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, an occasion to recognize graduating students for noteworthy involvement both on and off campus.

On the basis of stellar performances in recent state competition, 11 Pennsylvania College of Technology students are bound for the National SkillsUSA Conference from June 23-28 in Kansas City, Mo.

Fifteen Penn College horticulture students and instructor Carl J. Bower Jr. recently took a field trip to the gardens of the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Botanical Garden in Washington, D.C. While there, the group met with Sarah A. Tietbohl, a 2005 floral design/interior plantscape alumna and a 2006 graduate in technology management.

  The top two groups of Penn College's four-year construction management majors, as chosen from among seniors who presented their capstones in a Project Development course last month, made follow-up appearances before Senior Pastor Andy Beare and others at the Greenview Alliance Church in Loyalsock Township on Thursday.

  Penn College's Construction Management Program recently held its first "Coining Ceremony" for graduating seniors. Adopting a popular military tradition, a specially engraved construction management coin has been issued to alumni since the major celebrated its 20th anniversary last fall.

Twenty-one Pennsylvania College of Technology students were hired by Levy Restaurants to help prepare meals for guests attending the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 5.

About 65 students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's heavy construction equipment and diesel technology majors were treated to a recent demonstration of Volvo pipe-laying equipment at the Wayne Township Landfill in McElhattan. The event, the latest in Volvo's ongoing partnership with the college, was a collaboration among Henry J.