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  Students in the computer aided design majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology concluded a year's worth of design work and gained some appreciative comments from students outside the class when they tested their projects on a Penn College parking lot. The students designed pedal-powered, four-wheeled "quad cycles" with frames made of 1-inch PVC pipe.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will hold three commencement ceremonies at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport on May 11-12 for the 962 students who have petitioned to graduate following the Spring 2012 semester. At 3 p.m.

Construction management students from Pennsylvania College of Technology returned April 28 from another fine showing at the Associated Builders and Contractors Student Chapter Construction Management Competition, held again this year in San Antonio. The team placed second overall for the second year in a row, and also finished second in Project Management and third in Safety.

On the last day of classes, students in several School of Hospitality courses showed off final semester projects, meanwhile giving the Penn College community a chance to have a taste.

Members and advisers of the Delta Mu Delta and Alpha Chi national honor societies at Penn College recently collected about 80 new and gently used suitcases and duffel bags for use at Families United Network Inc. well beyond the 50-piece goal originally established for the local Suitcases for Kids drive.

Five students in Penn College's four-year heating, ventilation and air conditioning design technology major attended a recent meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers. In addition to presenting their senior capstone projects at the chapter's April 18 "Student Night" in Harrisburg, two of the students Thomas J.

In an Earth Day tradition (and on a typically unpredictable April day that saw traces of all four seasons), about 90 fifth-graders visited Penn College's Schneebeli Earth Science Center to celebrate the great outdoors. Moving among hands-on information stations staffed by forest technology students organized by professor Dennis F.

Students in MTH 156 (Mathematics in Non-European Cultures) presented their study abroad projects in the Bush Campus Center TV Lounge this past week. The group traveled to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and studied the Mayan civilization. The Penn College community is welcome to sign up for next year's overland adventure through the rain forests and lowlands of the Mayan world.

Twenty senior students in the graphic design major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will display the best of their collegiate portfolio, as judged by graphic design faculty, during the "Design: 2012" exhibit at The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of the Madigan Library.

Information technology students and the IT Living-Learning Community attended an informative presentation on "Background Checks: Best Practices" Wednesday evening in the Student and Administrative Center presentation room.