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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.

Some students enrolled in Pennsylvania College of Technology's Cisco Networking Academy program recently had the opportunity to apply the skills they have acquired to the benefit of a Williamsport business: AmerITGrads LLC. Under the supervision of Jeffrey B.

James Riedel, an automotive management technology major from Quogue, N.Y., has been chosen byPennsylvania College of Technology'sStudent Government Association as "Student of the Month" for March.

A world-renowned cake decorator will sponsor the first "CalJava Wedding Cake Contest" at Pennsylvania College of Technology on May 1. Daniel Budiman, CEO of CalJava International the contest's sponsor and editor of Here Comes the Cake magazine, has earned fame for his unique wedding-cake designs.

Four architectural technology majors are the winners of the 2006 "Strongest Bridge" contest: Corey N. Andreas, of Bloomsburg; Ryan L. Lewis, of Abbottstown; Matthew C.Toth, of Lancaster;and Henrik L. Berger, of RR 1, Huntingdon. Their bridge, made of construction paper and glue as outlined in the annual competition, weighed .35 of a pound and carried 136.2 pounds 389 times its weight!