Students Articles

The first Career Services' Etiquette Dinner, a learning opportunity for student job-seekers, took place Wednesday in Le Jeune Chef. Space was limited for the pilot program, but the event nonetheless was termed a "wonderful opportunity" for students to have a full-course meal at a fine-dining restaurant.

Under abundant sunshine, the Penn College colony of Sigma Nu held its second annual Spring Car Show fundraiser on campus Saturday,featuring music, food and dozens of vehicles on the BTC parking lot. Proceeds from the fraternity event benefit the Sigma Nu Leadership Initiatives Fund, which sponsors campus leadership events; trophies were awarded in 18 classes of cars, trucks and motorcycles.

A grant-funded student project at Pennsylvania College of Technology is bringing today's "green" sensitivity to a campus landmark that celebrates Williamsport's lumber prominence in the 1800s. An array of photovoltaic panels has been installed just southwest of the college's Victorian House, a student-designed-and-built guest facility that was dedicated in June 1997.

A welding student at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently completed a senior project that will benefit students in another Penn College department. Matthew C. Kline, a welding and fabrication engineering technology student from Whitehall, produced new weight racks for the training rooms used by students majoring in physical fitness specialist and by students taking other fitness classes.

Heidi K. Eppenbach, casual part-time library acquisitions assistant, and Brandie L. Pate, student library worker won The Madigan Library's MayDay Preservation Quiz. The contest, which was open only to library employees, tested knowledge of procedures for proper handling of library materials in both normal and emergency circumstances.

In an unprecedented measure of the institution's success in an international business-simulation competition, three teams of Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently finished in the Top 100. "There are 4,155 teams competing on a worldwide basis, (and) we had three teams in the top 100!" said Gerald D. "Chip" Baumgardner, associate professor of business administration.

Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's plastics and polymer engineering technology major and students enrolled in an intense, 18-credit nanofabrication manufacturing technology capstone semester at The Pennsylvania State University joined forces recently on the Penn College campus.

Students in the Baking and Pastry Applications Class presented Pastry Product Development, Merchandising, Packaging and Marketing in the Susquehanna Room lobby Tuesday morning. Each student chose a product to promote for his or her bakery at a "Trade Show," presenting samples of their products, along with packaging and promotional materials. Participants were Jenna A.

The creativity of students in the School of Construction and Design Technologies once again was on display this month in the Carl Building Technologies Center. Winners of the You Be the Judge competition, chosen in online balloting by members of the Penn College community, are: "Eden's Gate," crafted by Benjamin J. Johnson and Erick N.

Members of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Collegiate Association for County Correctional Education recently attended the annual statewide conference of the Correctional Education Association of Pennsylvania, traveling to the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona to participate in the three-day event.