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The Children's Learning Center held a Parent Appreciation Day Tea on Tuesday, a tradition as the holidays approach and the fall semester draws to a close.

An English-composition professor at Pennsylvania College of Technology was recently named the nonfiction editor for Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. Mark D. Noe, a longtime Aethlon editorial board member, will begin his duties as editor with the journal's 28th volume. Aethlon is designed to celebrate the intersection of literature with the world of play, games and sport.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently honored its partners in the Penn College NOW program, an initiative enabling high school students to earn college credits through dual enrollment in college-level courses.

One of the nation's top centers for plastics research, development and education related to injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, rotational molding and thermoforming, will change its name, effective in January. In an effort to expand its industry outreach, Pennsylvania College of Technology's Plastics Manufacturing Center will become the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center.

A $619,212 federal grant for 2011-12 will enable Pennsylvania College of Technology to provide the latest instructional equipment for a variety of academic programs and majors. The Perkins Local Plan Grant, funded by the U.S.

During the Thanksgiving holiday week, Pennsylvania College of Technology basketball and wrestling teams competed in just one event each. This week, Wildcat basketball players open Penn State University Athletic Conference play Wednesday at Penn State Hazleton. The women play at 6 p.m. and the men at 8.

Two educators from a Rwandan preschool toured Penn College's Children's Learning Center on Monday and offered a public lecture in the Thompson Professional Development Center that evening. The lecture by Janet Brown, who helped establish the Cyakabiri School for Young Children in April, and Louisa Batamaliza, one of the facility's teachers, was hosted by the college's Early Educators Club.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Chess Club has gone international, beginning an online competitionwith a team from Dubai Women's College . "We created a group on chess.com for our chess club, so we could meet and play games online against each other," explained Jim Cunningham, the college's vice president for information technology and the club co-adviser.

A potential pre-Thanksgiving Break tradition got off to a great start Monday night, as 23 students took part in the first Intramural Root Beer Pong Tournament. When it was all said and done, Samuel J. DiOttavio walked away victorious. "The tournament ran smoothly and everyone enjoyed themselves," said intramural assistant Jeremy R. Bottorf, who also provided photos.

Student-athletes from Penn College's fall sports golf, cross-country, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and tennis were honored during a Sunday banquet in the Thompson Professional Development Center. Photos by Michael S. Fischer, student photographer