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The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency has announced that the 2009-10 state grant awards will not be finalized or disbursed until the commonwealth's budget is approved. In the interim, Penn College students will not be impacted by that announcement.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has presented student achievement awards to its August 2009 graduates. A Summer Commencement ceremony was held Aug. 8 at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport.

Pennsylvania College of Technology held its Summer Commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport. Andrew R. Christoffel, of Lancaster, awarded a bachelor’s degree in environmental technology management, was student speaker for the event.

A student in Pennsylvania College of Technology's two-year health information technology major has been awarded a merit scholarship from the AHIMA Foundation, the philanthropic and charitable arm of the American Health Information Management Association. Carol E.

The next Medical Assistant class at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus, located three miles east of Wellsboro, is scheduled to begin in August.

Seven students studying plastics and polymer engineering technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently returned from a study-abroad experience at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. The students studied specialized plastics processing techniques at the university's Polymer Processing Research Centre.

A graduation ceremony was held recently for students completing the medical (office) assistant program offered through Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Thirteen students completed the program, a nine-month clock-hour training that prepares participants for employment in medical offices and clinics.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus has received four grants totaling more than $46,000 to award scholarships to participants enrolled in its practical nursing program, which begins annually in January.

Penn College's innovative Connections orientation program continued this week, as nearly 400 students and their guests recent high school graduates and nontraditional enrollees alike attended ice-breaking and informative sessions on main campus.

Student paramedics learning about mass-casualty incidents and the incident command system held a drill on Penn College's main campus Wednesday. "The simulated incidents put into practice the concepts of triaging 'patients' of different severity, beginning appropriate on-scene treatment and organizing the logistics to get the 'patients' transported," said Mark A.