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Awards were presented to noteworthy Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty and staff on May 11, among a number of long-established milestones as the 2022-23 academic year comes to a close. President Michael J. Reed celebrated the honorees during an all-college meeting, held in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium and livestreamed.

A dedicated group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students ushered in a new era of competition with a strong showing recently at Baja SAE Oshkosh in Wisconsin.

Applying what they’ve learned in the classroom, Pennsylvania College of Technology emergency management and paramedic students put their skills to the test this past weekend in the programs’ first on-campus simulated disaster incident.

As an assistant professor and department head, Ken J. Kinley looks forward to the slew of senior projects presented by electronics and automation students each spring at Pennsylvania College of Technology. This year, he identified two projects that stood out among the seniors’ outstanding work: a home control system developed by Austin N. Deibert, of Slatington, and an automated valve control system devised by Nicholas Semon, of Norristown.

When the Wildcat baseball team embarked Wednesday for the conference playoffs at Penn State Harrisburg, the bus was filled with teammates and coaches, focus and confidence ... and more than a dozen new Penn College alumni.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology students received financial assistance through the Allan Myers Corporate Scholars Program, just one of the ways the mid-Atlantic’s largest heavy civil contracting firm encourages the institution’s tomorrow makers.

The institution’s earliest tinkerers and innovators returned to campus recently for the 20th annual Williamsport Technical Institute Reunion.

Fifteen Student Leadership & Involvement Awards – as well as a scholarship or three – were recently presented in the Thompson Professional Development Center. The program, a heartwarming tradition of the Office of Student Engagement, honors campus leaders, their mentors among Penn College's faculty and staff, and the student organizations that have left their mark on yet another academic year.

More than 500 students enrolled in Penn College Dual Enrollment made visits to campus during the spring semester, immersing in a wide variety of majors, courtesy of college faculty.

Culinary arts technology grad and current business administration student Melyce E. Kenyon, owner and operator of MK Bubble Drinks, visited with students in the Careers in Hospitality class, taught by Chef Mary G. Trometter, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts.