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Pennsylvania College of Technology’s United Campus Ministry and Cheer Team recently teamed up for their spring semester fundraiser and donated all of their profits to a local nonprofit, Family Promise of Lycoming County. UCM and the Cheer Team sold 16 boxes (96 bars) of chocolate and donated $800 in goods and necessities to Family Promise, a homeless ministry.

Junior Gavin Barrett of Roselle, New Jersey, was named to the D3Hoops.com District 4 All-Region third team, it was announced on Thursday. Barrett becomes the college’s first men's basketball player in the NCAA era (since 2014) to earn all-region honors. Barrett is no stranger to making program history.

For the fifth consecutive year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has received “Guard-Friendly School” designation from an organization devoted to the Pennsylvania National Guard. The Pennsylvania National Guard Associations – an advocacy group dedicated to the growth of the Pennsylvania National Guard and its service members, veterans and families – recently bestowed the honor.

On March 19, a group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students will host the first Wildcat Forum, a series of six-to-eight-minute talks sharing the theme “What is Success?” The event is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium and is open to the community. Three Penn College alumni and two employees are slated to speak.

Positive reinforcement, fun and fundamentals are the foundations on which first-year coach David Straub began building the Pennsylvania College of Technology tennis program last fall and which he looks to continue this spring. The Wildcats open their season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, hosting King’s College at the Central Pennsylvania Tennis Center in South Williamsport.

Pennsylvania College of Technology student Kianna A. Rizzo, of Elysburg, is the third consecutive Penn College student to be selected for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists’ Student to Leadership Development Program. Each year, ASRT selects two students from each state for the three-year Student to Leadership Development Program.

Students in the Decorative Concrete class, taught by Joe F. DiBucci, recently visited Lycoming Vault & Precast in Montoursville. The company produces a variety of precast concrete products, from septic tanks to light pole bases. “Traveling to a precast concrete plant was a great opportunity for the students to be able to see a different side of the industry,” said DiBucci.

Calling all information technology, engineering technology and building construction students! Two employers are recruiting this Thursday. Penn College students and alumni looking for employment opportunities and internships should stop by these employer information tables and bring your resume.

The renamed Center for Academic Excellence at Pennsylvania College of Technology will bear the name, and honor the lifelong service, of Michael J. Hudock Sr., a beloved and dedicated area educator, coach and mentor. The Michael J. Hudock Sr. Center for Academic Excellence will benefit from a $250,000 endowed gift from his wife, Barbara, CEO and founding partner of Hudock Capital Group LLC, a leading financial advisory firm headquartered in Williamsport.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s baseball and softball teams combined for nine wins and seven losses during spring break play in South Carolina over the past week, while the men’s lacrosse squad split in its two outings. This coming Saturday, the men’s and women’s tennis teams begin their spring season.