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A cooperative project between Penn College forest technology students and the Pennsylvania Game Commission was featured in Tuesday evening's 5 p.m. Newswatch 16 broadcast. WNEP's Jim Hamill joined Game Commission personnel and students in Donald R.

The winners of the CalJava Wedding Cake Competition, held March 6 at Pennsylvania College of Technology, have been announced.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology enrollee shared top honors with his Jersey Shore Area High School teammate in the recent Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation-sponsored competition in Harrisburg.

Judging for the CalJava International Wedding Cake Competition was held Thursday morning in the PDC. Ten intricate cakes designed for the competition by students in an advanced cake decorating class were displayed the following day, attracting cash votes to determine the People's Choice Award. The funds raised through voting were given to the YWCA's Liberty House.

Penn College's Construction Management Association successfully defended its title of "Student Chapter of the Year" during the recent Associated Builders and Contractors' 2009 Student Construction Management Competition in Honolulu. Five construction management students and a faculty member Wayne R.

Three students Ann Marie Prosser, of Elizabethtown; Lauren Whitcraft, of Mountville; and Nadena M. Nykaza, of Jermyn and one faculty member, Rhonda J. Seebold, spent a week (Feb. 20-27) in Managua, Nicaragua, working with students and parents of La Escuelita to educate them on proper dental hygiene and to perform basic dental care.

Brandon J. Close, of Williamsport, majoring in business administration: marketing concentration, has been chosen as February's Student of the Month by the Student Government Association at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

More than 100 people attended the Multicultural Society's third annual Gospel Concert on Saturday in the ACC Auditorium. The club is a student organization designed to promote diversity and cultural awareness on campus and in the community. Each year, the proceeds of the Gospel Concert are donated to a community organization with which club members volunteer their time helping children.

Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies welcomed nearly 50 architecture students from The Pennsylvania State University on Monday. Moving through workstations in the school's masonry lab, the Penn State students traveling with Ute Poerschke, associate professor in Penn State's Department of Architecture took trowels in hand to lay brick, block and stone.

Members of Penn College's athletics teams volunteered Monday at Williamsport's Sheridan Elementary School to participate in the Read Across America Day, nationwide celebration held annually around the March 2 birthday of Dr. Seuss. The student-athletes read to the children, and Bradley Robinson and Samantha Mills did a "Green Eggs and Ham" readers' theater.