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Eighteen students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management competed in the Mid-Atlantic Woodsmen's Meet, held earlier this month at Montgomery Community College in Troy, N.C.

Construction management students from Pennsylvania College of Technology and their award-winning faculty adviser recently returned home from national competition with heads and three trophies held high. The students attended the Associated Builders and Contractors' 2006 Student Construction Management Competition March 15-19 in Las Vegas.

Charles W. Zeigler, a second-year individual studies student at Pennsylvania College of Technology and a resident of McSherrystown, won the ACUI Intercollegiate National Championships in Olympic skeet at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday. More than 250 shooters representing more than 24 colleges and universities participated in the five-day competition.

New associate-degree students majoring in plastics and polymer technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology are eligible to receive $2,500 per semester up to $10,000 total toward the cost of their education, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Plastics Initiative Scholarship Program.

Four heating, ventilation and air-conditioning students represented Pennsylvania College of Technology at the 38th Annual ACCA Conference and Indoor Air Expo, held March 28-30 at the San Jose (Calif.) Convention Center. Steven A. Quinn, of Perkiomenville; Eric J. Hager, of Mars; and Brian D. Woods, of Industry, all enrolled in the bachelor-degree HVAC major; were joined by Jesse T.

Penn College students Carl F. Gravely and Scott A. Seroskie were among college and university students from central Pennsylvania who presented work at a poster session Friday in the Advanced Technology and Health Sciences Center.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students exhibited their knowledge while competing against experienced representatives from the systems and automation industry in a recent quiz-bowl style event.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently installed fiber-optic connectors for Moran Industries, a Watsontown-based logistics company.

The Student Government Association has announced the results from last week's six-day online election for its 2006-07 Executive Board. "There was an outstanding turnout, with over5 percent of the student body voting this year beating the 2-percent national average for student government voting turnouts," noted Kirk M.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students once again have proved to be worldly-wise players in the Business Strategy Game, a Web-based competition that pits simulated corporations against one another in the fickle global marketplace. The co-managers of the fictitious Delphi athletic-footwear company Jennie E. Mull, a technology management student from Huntingdon; Amy M.