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The most notable Resident Assistants and programs of the 2009-10 academic year have been announced by Pennsylvania College of Technology's Residence Life Office, which also applauded its "...of the Month" honorees for April.

A team of Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently returned from a collegiate engineering challenge the Baja SAE with a strong finish among some of the top engineering universities in North and South America and a "Best Prepared Award" from the contest judges.

Thirty-six Pennsylvania College of Technology students were hired to help cook for the thousands of spectators who converged on Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 1 for the 2010 running of the Kentucky Derby. Accompanied by chefs Paul Mach, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts, and Charles R.

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.