Fifth-graders from Montgomery Elementary School convened in a classroom "as big as all outdoors" on Tuesday, visiting the Schneebeli Earth Science Center for an environmentally themed field trip timed to this month's Earth Day observance. As they have for a number of years, forest technology students at Penn College (marshaled by Dennis F.
Physician assistant students visited the Children's Learning Center on Monday to practice health assessments on young children. As the photo shows, turnabout is fair play at these practice "clinics," where big students learn how to work with the little ones, and theyoungsters benefit by having a fun and positive experience with a health care professional.
Pennsylvania College of Technology students from a variety of organizations provided event support at Saturday's statewide Odyssey of the Mind competition, which brought 3,000 to 4,000 people to the Williamsport area. Students from Phi Theta Kappa (Grant A. Fassett, Timothy E.Funk, Kristina M. Wisneski, Danielle A. Lister, Christiana M. Snyder, Cheryl L. Moore, Robert J. Rowse Jr.
Nine Pennsylvania College of Technology students, gold medalists at the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania Leadership and Skills Conference held April 6-8 at the Hershey Lodge, have won the right to compete at the national level this summer.
A semester-long project by students in Chef Monica J. Lanczak's Advanced Patisserie Operations class culminated Friday morning in a baking and pastry "trade show" in the Hager Lifelong Education Center.
Student organizations at Pennsylvania College of Technology have met a fundraising challenge from the college president, spurring a new challenge to help endow a memorial scholarship fund. Penn College's Student Government Association and several other organizations rose to the challenge from Davie Jane Gilmour to raise $2,000 for the Tracy A. Garis Memorial Scholarship.
School of Hospitality students Aimee M. Stout, of Middletown, N.Y., and Katelyn R. Ciavardini, of Sayre will prepare healthy vegetable burgers and other tasty treats for Saturday's "Spring Spectacular 2011" at Snyder's Nursery at the Feed Mill. The event will run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at 114 S.
Penn College's Residence Life Office held a successful disabilities-awarenessevent in Dauphin Hall on Tuesday. The "Spend a Day in Their Shoes" program allowed students to engage in an obstacle course designed to replicate some of the day-to-day challenges of people with disabilities. Kay E.
A group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students will help to serve thousands of hungry horse-racing fans at the 2011 Kentucky Derby on May 7. The students were interviewed on the Penn College campus and selected by Levy Restaurants representatives. Levy is responsible for food operations at many sports arenas and entertainment venues across the United States.
Seven students from Gamma Epsilon Tau, the graphic arts and printing honors fraternity, and their adviser, Tom Tyberg, assistant professor of graphic communications, recently ventured to Washington, D.C., where they attended the On-Demand Expo, a print-related trade show that focuses on variable-data printing and short-run, quick-turnaround printing.
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