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Pennsylvania College of Technology has presented student achievement awards to its December 2009 graduates. The award winners, their hometowns and academic majors are: President's Award, presented for leadership and service to the college: Micah A. Metzel, Dallastown, technology management.

Penn College got some national television exposure this month on NBC and CNN. Banner-carrying members of the college's Students in Free Enterprise chapter, in New York City on Dec. 5 with their adviser (Dennis R. Williams, associate professor of business administration/management), were glimpsed in the closing moments of "Weekend Today." Students Kaitlyn M. Kennedy, Shawn S.

A group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students helped to raise $3,000 for the world's poor through a recent fair-trade craft sale. Students pursuing bachelor's degrees in applied human services organized and staffed an on-campus sale of handmade goods from around the world through an organization known as Ten Thousand Villages.

Works by baking and pastry arts students at Pennsylvania College of Technology were auctioned to raise more than $1,600 for Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity during the School of Hospitality's annual Food Show on Dec. 4. The centerpiece of the fundraising effort was a silent auction of 12 chocolate houses created by students in the Principles of Chocolate Works course.

In a gathering as diverse and colorful as any holiday get-together, members of the Penn College familyare putting their distinct spin on a yuletide standard taking part in the Community Theatre League's production of "Scrooge! The Musical." The show, a tuneful retelling of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," opened Dec. 10 and will continue at 7:30 nightly Dec. 17-19 and at 2 p.m. Dec.

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.