Students Articles

Five Early Educators and their adviser, Barbara J. Albert, traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference and Expo fromNov. 19-21. They attended workshops about the latest research and best practices in the field of early care and education, and attended lectures by authors of their textbooks and other experts in the field.

As October brought chilly warnings of the winter to come, as temperatures dropped and the wind blew and a Muncy resident's boiler sputtered toward its end, a group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students and a faculty member volunteered in the timely installation of a heating system for the area senior citizen.

Taking time to remember those less fortunate, Penn College students sponsored a canned-food drive during Monday's basketball games in Bardo Gymnasium. In an event supported by the Student Government Association, Student Athlete Advisory Committee and the men's volleyball team, one can of food got its donor a free hot dog.

Penn College faculty and students from the dental hygiene and physical fitness specialist majors participated in a health fair at the Allenwood Low Security Correctional Institution. Topics covered were: oral health with Barbara K.

In recognition of Radiologic Technology Week, the radiography students used their creative talents to make display boards for each of the hospitals affiliated with Penn College's Radiography Program. X-radiation was discovered on Nov. 8, 1895, by Wilhelm Roentgen; the technology celebrated its 114th anniversary during the week of Nov. 8-14.

A member of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Hydraulics Club recently helped one of his instructors with a lesson at Curtin Middle School in Williamsport. Paul A.

Jessica R. Larson, of Williamsport, scheduled to graduate magna cum laude in December with a bachelor's degree in business administration: marketing concentration, was chosen as October's Student of the Month by the Student Government Association at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology physician assistant program won the 10th Annual Student Challenge Bowl, which was held by the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants during its state conference in Pittsburgh on Nov. 6. This highly competitive event features 10 teams from physician assistant programs in Pennsylvania. Each program sends a team of three students and one alternate.

Members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Collegiate Association for County Correctional Education recently completed a library refurbishing project at the Clinton County Correctional Facility. The students donated 15 boxes of textbooks, with an estimated value of more than $2,000, and a bookshelf to the prison's library.