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Pennsylvania College of Technology's baseball and softball teams step into Penn State University Athletic Conference playoffs Saturday the baseball team seeking its third straight championship and the softball team hoping to get back to the top after placing second the last two seasons.
More than 35 students (and a few faculty members) attended Wednesday's final Residence Hall Association event of the semester, learning to do the cha-cha at Swing Dance Night in Penn's Inn. "This event was a unique opportunity for students to learn a type of dancing they might not otherwise explore," said Lee R. Plenn, coordinator of residence life.
Nearly 150 pints of blood were collected at Wednesday's Red Cross Bloodmobile in Penn's Inn short of expectations, but, as every pint goes toward saving another life, a worthy effort nonetheless. Student and faculty/staff donors contributed 142 pints (112 whole-blood donations and 15 pints through the double-red-cell process) in the daylong visit.
A welding student at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently completed a senior project that will benefit students in another Penn College department. Matthew C. Kline, a welding and fabrication engineering technology student from Whitehall, produced new weight racks for the training rooms used by students majoring in physical fitness specialist and by students taking other fitness classes.
The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, will host "Design: 2010," a student portfolio exhibition, May 6-14. Twenty-one students will exhibit a variety of work they created during their studies toward earning bachelor's degrees in graphic design.
The College Store's end-of-semester textbook buyback will continue from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday; 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday; 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through next Thursday; 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, May 7; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 8. In addition to textbooks, The College Store is buying used TI84 graphing calculators.
Heidi K. Eppenbach, casual part-time library acquisitions assistant, and Brandie L. Pate, student library worker won The Madigan Library's MayDay Preservation Quiz. The contest, which was open only to library employees, tested knowledge of procedures for proper handling of library materials in both normal and emergency circumstances.
In an unprecedented measure of the institution's success in an international business-simulation competition, three teams of Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently finished in the Top 100. "There are 4,155 teams competing on a worldwide basis, (and) we had three teams in the top 100!" said Gerald D. "Chip" Baumgardner, associate professor of business administration.
Pennsylvania College of Technology recently approved an agreement with SUN Area Technical Institute in New Berlin to provide selected developmental and first-year college courses at the SUN ATI campus. The courses are available to high school students enrolled at SUN ATI or its sending districts, adult education students, and currently enrolled or prospective Penn College students.
As part of its Educator in the Workplace series, Pennsylvania College of Technology's Outreach for K-12 Office and the Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corp. will offer an opportunity for local educators to tour two Geisinger facilities, where they will learn about employment opportunities and needs in the region.