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When 16 competing baseball teams and thousands of fans congregate for the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, nearly 60 Pennsylvania College of Technology students will take shifts at the 10-day event to help safeguard their health.

Penn College forest technologymajor Anthony J. Tettis, profiled on PCToday in February , continues his quest for a spot on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team.According to a recent article in his hometown Ridgway Record newspaper and an e-mail to his faculty adviser, in which he related his "awesome" summer of training and felling trees Tettis will be in Houston from Aug.

As part of training and teamwork, Pennsylvania College of Technology Residence Lifejoined with Wise Options in an experiential-learning scenario that benefited both returning Resident Assistants and the community. Returning RAs, separated into groups, had to organize the remodeling of a room atthe agency'sdomestic-violence shelter.

Pennsylvania College of Technology, a special mission affiliate of The Pennsylvania State University, recently presented awards to its August 2007 graduates. The awards, the students and their academic majors are: President's Award, presented for leadership and service to the college: Jared Frederick Finck, Sparta, N.J., physician assistant.

On Thursday, 20 incoming Penn College students completed the five-week Summer PLUS 2007 program offered by Academic Support Services. In addition to taking a math, English or reading noncredit course, the students were involved in college-preparation activities such as Project Success, introduction-to-computers classes and library workshops.

Five Saudi Arabian students from Penn College's English as a Second Language class met children at the Children's Learning Center on Wednesday morning to practice pronunciation skills and experience interacting with American children. The students explored the children's classroom and had an opportunity for play with the youngsters. The ESL students also read books to the children.

Four Pennsylvania College of Technology students are working this summer with Larson Design Group a Williamsport-based architecture, engineering and surveying firm where an aggressive internship program helps meet future recruitment needs and reverse the trend of local students moving outside the area after graduation.

A six-student team from Pennsylvania College of Technology recently tested its Mini Baja off-road vehicle against 140 other college and university teams at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Three members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Phi Beta Lambda chapter and a faculty adviser attended the 2007 National Leadership Conference in Chicago from June 20-27. Two of the students gained high honors in the Awards of Excellence program held June 26. Matthew P.

Penn College students had a wonderful week in Kansas City, Mo., during the national SkillsUSA competition, according to faculty adviser Edward L. Roadarmel, assistant professor of drafting and computer aided design. Carl F. Gravely, of Arona, placed second out of 23 in Industrial Motor Control; Matthew E.