Students Articles

The Financial Aid Office at Pennsylvania College of Technology and Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency recently announced that the Armed Forces Loan Forgiveness Program has been extended to include men and women who served in the armed forces in active-duty status between Sept. 11, 2001, and June 30, 2006. The application deadline has been extended until Dec. 31, 2006.

Matthew S. Clouser and Shaun R. Bentz, both civil engineering technology students at Pennsylvania College of Technology, have earned scholarships from American Infrastructure Inc., a Worcester-based heavy-construction firm. In addition to a bachelor's degree in civil engineering technology, Clouser, of RR 1 East Waterford, is pursuing an associate degree in surveying technology.

While frigid winds gusted, whipping snowflakes through the air, students enrolled in the human services major at Pennsylvania College of Technology alternated shifts to spend 24 hours outdoors at Market and West Fourth streets in Williamsport recently to call attention to the number of people who are homeless in Lycoming County and the surrounding region.

Pennsylvania College of Technology student Austin M. Upright has been awarded four separate scholarships for the 2005-06 academic year. Upright, Montoursville, plans to graduate in May 2006 with associate degrees in civil engineering technology and surveying technology. In May 2005, he earned an associate degree from Penn College in computer-aided drafting technology.

A mass media communications major from Columbia County is this year's winner among students who submitted public-service videosurging intelligent decisions about the use of alcohol and other substances. Justin D. Wilcottof Bloomsburg was awarded a $300 Circuit City gift card for his winning entry, which is available here in QuickTime and Windows Media formats.

Catherine V. McCall of Media, a senior in the applied human services major, has been selected as the Student Government Association's "Student of the Month" for November. A student leader and Resident Assistant in the College West Apartments, McCall shows enthusiasm and dedication on and off campus.

Michael R. Bloom, a sophomore electronics engineering technology student at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has earned the Central Keystone Section of the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to a student entering his or her second year of study in electronics with an industrial process control emphasis.

Eight Pennsylvania College of Technology students have earned 10 district-level scholarships from the American Welding Society for the 2005-06 academic year. The scholarship recipients are: District 2 (Long Island, N.Y.; New Jersey; New York; and Philadelphia) Eric J. Belokostolsky, Warwick, N.Y.; Ethan A. Hayden, North Brunswick, N.J.; and Benjamin J. Vivian, Budd Lake, N.J.

An article by a legal assistant/paralegal student at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been published in the Boston College Law School's Intellectual Property and Technology Forum, a rarity for an undergraduate. Michael J.

Students from the School of Industrial and Engineering Technologies recently toured the U.S. Department of Defense Supply Center: Richmond Army Depot in Mechanicsburg. Manufacturing engineering technology, welding and fabrication engineering technology and electronics engineering technology students came together to see the opportunities that exist with the depot, which employs more than 5,000.