Hundreds of students visited Penn State Beaver Tuesday to take part in the K’NEX Design Challenge which was coordinated by the Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit and sponsored and judged by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
CENTER TWP. — Hundreds of students visited Penn State Beaver Tuesday to take part in the K’NEX Design Challenge.
The event — coordinated by the Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit and sponsored and judged by Thermo Fisher Scientific — drew 52 teams of students from 14 area school districts.
Scott Noxon, a 1984 graduate, is continuing his legacy of charitable giving by creating the Scott Noxon LGBTQA Scholarship, the first of its kind for a Commonwealth campus.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Beaver contributed more than $28.9 million to the Pennsylvania economy in fiscal year 2017, and supported, directly and indirectly, 480 Pennsylvania jobs. This according to a new study released Feb. 26 by Penn State, focused on measuring the University’s impact in communities across the Commonwealth.
CENTER TWP. – Students in Jodi Gill’s civic and community engagement class had a chance to ask U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb anything they wanted when he visited Penn State Beaver this week.
Lamb, D-Mount Lebanon, spent the day in Beaver County on Feb. 19 visiting various schools before holding a town hall in Baden. He also is preparing to open an office in Center Township.
CENTER TWP. – Prospective student athletes from nearly half the states in the country arrived at Penn State Beaver Friday for the campus’ annual Athletics Spirit Weekend.
The prospective students took tours of the campus, met faculty, staff, coaches and current students, in addition to attending basketball games and the Hall of Fame dinner and ceremony Saturday night.
CENTER TWP. – Hailey Burbage got involved in THON for Penn State Beaver the way many people end up getting involved in volunteer efforts: a friend talked her into it.
“Marissa Bufalini,” Burbage said with a laugh when asked what made her get involved with THON. “She was like ‘Listen, you need to do it. We need people.’”
Are you interested in playing at Penn State Beaver? Come to Athletics Spirit Weekend 2020, February 7-9, to meet coaches and players and to find out about our outstanding athletic and academic programs.
A university seed grant helped erect a 96-foot-long greenhouse on campus, and organizers hope its impact will go far beyond the food they're able to grow inside it.
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Area students visit Penn State Beaver for K'NEX competition