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Federal grant funding totaling nearly $5 million will enable Pennsylvania College of Technology to serve as one of two regional hubs coordinating the delivery of job recruitment, training and placement services for the Marcellus Shale natural gas industry across several states.
The 10th annual School of Natural Resources Management Golf Outing dawned cloudy and wet, but, as participants started play, the rain stopped and a great day of competition began on the 18-hole Challenge course at the White Deer Golf Complex. Sixty golfers participated in the scholarship fundraising event on July 14, 16 of them current or retired college employees.
Children ages 8-14 enjoyed up to four weeks of Penn College's Camp ESCAPE this summer, gaining an appreciation of the sports world through cognitive and psychological development.Campers discovered new strengths through a variety of activities at the camp (an acronym for Enjoy Sports Camps at Penn College Everyone), taking pride in personal and group accomplishments, making friends, and having a
A grant from Sovereign Bank will allow establishment of two new permanent book collections in Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library. The $2,500 grant, through the Sovereign Bank Foundation, will support new collections in childhood development and in arts and media programming.
A Penn College culinary arts alumnus will be a familiar face on the Food Network and elsewhere in the coming months. James Parker, a 1991 graduate and founder of Veggy Art, is among the competitors in the $10,000 "Food Landscapes" challenge to premiere at 8 p.m. Sunday (and air numerous other times) on the cable channel. Parker also is scheduled for "The Rachael Ray Show" at 10 a.m.
Penn College hosted its 10th annual residential SMART Girls (Science and Math Applications in Real World Technologies for Girls) program July 11-15. Thirty-six girls participated in the program, which is for young women entering ninth and 10th grades.
Penn College was the site recently of a Technology Leadership Workshop, presented free to educators through Siemens Industry Inc.'s Siemens Cooperates With Education program. The event attracted 15 educators from such local institutions as Bucknell University and Williamsport Area School District, as well as from colleges and universities in North Dakota, Michigan and Ohio.
The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, will host "Full Deck," a traveling exhibit of skateboard art, July 22-Sept. 22. "Full Deck" captures the dynamic art and style representative of skate culture from the 1960s to the present.
The Penn College Relay for Life team thanks everyone who helped to make this year's event so successful. The response was tremendous: With the college community's help, the team raised $5,407, which surpassed its $5,000 goal! The Penn College family provided raffle prizes, bought raffle tickets totaling $1,800, purchased luminaria, donated to Dress Down day and contributed money.
Expanding on its educational opportunities for faculty, staff, students and adult residents of surrounding communities, Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library has begun offering nominally priced memberships to a previously underserved population: high schoolers. "We have been pleased to offer memberships to community borrowers since opening in 2006," said Nicole S.