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Pennsylvania College of Technology at Wellsboro will offer several computer classes this spring at Wellsboro Area Senior High School. The classes are taught by qualified instructors at a comfortable pace for all levels of adult learners. They are held in a relaxed computer classroom environment, allowing students to learn, experiment and ask questions.

Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering a basic welding course for Spring 2015. The 40-hour program consists of eight five-hour training sessions that will help participants begin to develop highly marketable career-path skills.

Discover your creative side and learn from an industry professional how to take stunning digital photographs when Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology offers a three-week digital photography course this winter. The classes, taught by Wayne R. Palmer, will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays from Jan. 22 through Feb.

Ten students graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Technology North Campus Outreach Practical Nursing Program on Thursday, Dec. 18. The ceremony was held at Wellsboro Area High School with a reception for family and friends afterward. The students selected Amanda Wyble, LPN, a staff nurse at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital and alumna of the program, as speaker for the ceremony.

Three representatives of Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology were on hand when the U.S. Department of Labor recently made available $100 million in grant funding for apprenticeships. Tracy L. Brundage, vice president for workforce development; John F. Strittmatter, ShaleNET U.S. regional hub director; and David C.

Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology will offer a new 150-hour, noncredit Emergency Medical Technician course, beginning with the Spring 2015 semester.

Paul Godridge, a design engineer with Faun Trackway, talks hydraulics outside the training site's classroom. Formation of the access surface begins with placing the Trackway – interlocking aluminum panels – beneath the wheels of a front-end loader. Unspooling as the vehicle moves forward, about 40 meters of temporary roadway is laid in minutes ... ...

An intermediate-level Microsoft Excel class will be offered in December through Penn College at Towanda in the Central Bradford Progress Authority building. The noncredit class will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, in Suite 1, Room 1 of One Progress Plaza, 1 Elizabeth St., Towanda. The cost is $159.

A basic welding course is being offered this fall by Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The 40-hour noncredit program comprises five eight-hour training sessions. Participants can learn the four basic processes of oxy-fuel, shielded-metal arc, gas metal arc and gas tungsten arc welding.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will provide $50,000 in ShaleNET scholarships to 50 veterans, unemployed and underemployed residents of Tioga County. The scholarships are made possible by Act 13 (impact fee) funding approved recently by the Tioga County Commissioners.