Students Articles

Twelve Pennsylvania College of Technology students are completing their studies toward an associate degree in early childhood education with practicum experiences at area facilities.

Their chosen arena is more Hospitality than Hogwarts, but a baker's dozen of Penn College students proved themselves wizards all the same in designing cakes inspired by the Harry Potter books and movies.

A landscape/horticulture technology student at Pennsylvania College of Technology received a $2,500 scholarship at the 2011 Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association Leadership Summit held Feb. 10 in Lancaster.

Community volunteers and Pennsylvania College of Technology students and faculty treated 37 children on Feb. 5 as part of the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists' Association's statewide Sealant Saturday initiative.

As schoolchildren nationwide gathered for Read Across America programs in observance of Dr. Seuss's birthday Wednesday, 11 Penn College student-athletes went to Williamsport's Sheridan Elementary School for the third annual "Reading with the Wildcats" initiative.

Twenty-six Penn College employees and students, the latest class of Awesome Women Exemplars nominated by their appreciative peers, were recognized Tuesday during an evening reception in the Thompson Professional Development Center's Mountain Laurel Room.

The well-appointed welding labs of Penn College's Avco-Lycoming Metal Trades Center were the venue for Friday's annual American Welding Society competition involving 20 students from the college's School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies and five each from Columbia Montour Area Vocational-Technical School, SUN Area Technical School and Williamsport Area High School.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance campaign, in which Pennsylvania College of Technology students partner with The Salvation Army and Internal Revenue Service, is helping hundreds of eligible area residents prepare and file their returns this season.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students will use Harry Potter as the inspiration for their three-tier cake designs during the college's sixth-annual cake competition. Following judging, the students' cakes will be displayed for the public from 1-3 p.m. March 3 and from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. March 4 in the Mountain Laurel Room of the Thompson Professional Development Center.

The Penn College Ski and Snowboard Club, formed in November, is among the newest student organizations on campus. The group held its first meeting of the year in Penn's Inn (CC, second floor) last week, gauging interest in local skiing and snowboarding trips.