Among the 150 high school students who attended this year’s Model United Nations event at Bloomsburg University on Tuesday, 34 were from Williamsport Area High School. Students collectively brought home a number of awards and recognitions, according to the news release. • Lily ...
A Williamsport Area High School video produced to help raise awareness on mental health stigmas and suicide prevention received first place for the second consecutive year in a recent statewide PSA contest conducted by Prevent Suicide PA (PSPA). The video, created by members of the high school’s Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) Club, earned the top spot in the 30-second category through online votes received from both students and the broader public. “Our students are passionate about promoting a message of ‘hope’ for adolescent mental health and suicide,” said ...
LOCK HAVEN — Commonwealth University-Lock Haven's Department of Exceptionality Programs and Council for Exceptional Children student group will host the 19th annual Kent's Fest celebration on Friday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the East Campus Gymnasium. The theme for this year's celebration is "Road Trip USA." Classrooms and organizations will create unique performances to personally selected music aligned with the theme. The event, which has not been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, provides a musical talent show for children and adults with disabilities from ...
Graduating Lycoming College students will display their final thesis work in an exhibit held at the Lycoming College Art Gallery, running from Friday through May 13. The gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 4 to 8 p.m., and the exhibits are free and open to the public. The Lycoming College Senior Show is the culmination of thesis projects for all seniors with a major in studio art, and all studio art majors are required to produce a cohesive body of professional work to exhibit, including an artist statement. In addition to those majoring in the art program, all ...
(The Center Square) — The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education said this week its tuition freeze has done little to stave off enrollment declines, even as the costs at other institutions around them all climb. “We’re particularly expensive for students who we’re born to serve, low and middle income students,” said Chancellor Dan Greenstein. “You’re asking their families or their households to pay basically 45% of their disposable income to send one student to one of our universities for one year.” Greenstein told the House Appropriations Committee this week ...
The naming of two instructional labs at Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center heightens the visibility of a corporate partner’s enduring behind-the-scenes investment in the next generation of industry leaders. During a March 15 event at the Allenwood-area ...
