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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.

Human services students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will present an Assistive Technology Expo on April 29 in the college's Field House. The expo, scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., will feature a broad range of services and equipment to assist individuals with disabilities. The displays will focus on mobility, communication and education.

"When you signed up for my class, I bet you never thought you'd be doing this," forestry instructor Jack E. Fisher told two Penn College students, while they gamely swept bat droppings into buckets Monday.

The Penn College Wildcat crisscrossed main campus Friday, giving "paws" to thank faculty/staff who donated to the Tracy A. Garis Memorial Scholarship in return for permission to "dress down." Accompanied by Gregory J.

Thirteen students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management recently attended the Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days competition in Joliet, Ill. Horticulture faculty members Dennis P. Skinner, assistant professor, and Carl J.

Students in Penn College's graphic communications management major experienced the papermaking process firsthand during a recent tour of the American Eagle Paper Mill in Tyrone. The plant has been in existence formore than 100 years, for much of that time making paper in the traditional way of using wood.