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Nine students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's English as a Second Language program completed service-learning projects Dec. 2. The students were involved with The Academia and Messiah Lutheran Senior Center for five weeks on Friday mornings during the last half of the Fall 2011 semester.

Seven students on Penn College's Martial Arts Club team were promoted to the next belt level during Saturday's Martial Arts Seminar and Kyu Exam at the Field House. Head coach George Vance said the students Mathew D. Johnson, Cory L. Buckles, Kyle M. Zechman, Morgan A. Olbrich, Madelyn M. Lanoue, Philip T. Le and Michael J. Gardner did an excellent job.

Two associate-degree horticulture students at Pennsylvania College of Technology each received $1,250 scholarships during the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association Foundation's recent member-celebration dinner at the Lancaster Convention Center. The scholarships awarded to Kelsey R. Bromm, of Fountainville, and Matthew D.

The Information Technology Living-Learning Community had the opportunity to learn about optical fiber terminations in a recent session hosted by Jeff B. Weaver, associate professor of electronics and computer engineering technology.

Performing one of their last duties before graduating from the baking and pastry arts major, students in Chef Monica J. Lanczak's Pastry Food Show and Buffet Presentation Concepts course prepared and served a Grand Pastry Buffet attended by members of Penn College's 1914 Society on Sunday.

Limited only by their imaginations (and the end of the fall semester), students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Hospitality once again put on a dazzling display of playfulness and prowess for the latest edition of the annual Food Show in the Thompson Professional Development Center's Mountain Laurel Room.

The Medical Imaging Club and Penn College's Human Resources/Employee Relations Office are the first-place winners among student groups and campus departments in this season's holiday card-decorating contest. Results were announced by President Davie Jane Gilmour during a lighting ceremony outside the Breuder Advanced Technology and Health Sciences Center on a blustery Wednesday evening.

Nearly 370 students have petitioned to graduate at the conclusion of the Fall 2011 semester at Pennsylvania College of Technology, which will hold a commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. in the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. The student speaker is Molly G.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Chess Club has gone international, beginning an online competitionwith a team from Dubai Women's College . "We created a group on chess.com for our chess club, so we could meet and play games online against each other," explained Jim Cunningham, the college's vice president for information technology and the club co-adviser.

Culinary arts and baking and pastry arts students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will show their final works during the School of Hospitality's annual Food Show on Dec. 2.