Blackhawk School District sixth graders, from left, Kylie Codeington, Ava Bielawski, Mazzy Klinsky and Zoey Lindner, stand with their crane designed to pick up trash. The students joined hundreds of other area students for the K'NEX Design Challenge held at Penn State Beaver on Tuesday.
Blackhawk School District sixth graders, from left, Kylie Codeington, Ava Bielawski, Mazzy Klinsky and Zoey Lindner, stand next to their creation at the K'NEX Design Challenge. The event was held Tuesday in the gymnasium at Penn State Beaver.
Lukas Lowd, left, a fifth grader at Central Valley School District, operates his team's animal rescue crane with help from fourth-grader Riley Pucevich.
From left, Kylie Codeington, Ava Bielawski, Mazzy Klinsky and Zoey Lindner, all sixth graders from Blackhawk School District, stand in front of their trash-collecting crane they built for the K'NEX Design Challenge.
Creative writing students at Penn State Beaver will give a live poetry performance at 6 p.m. April 15. Through "Create for a Cause" the students are seeking donations to help patients who are undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
Scott Noxon, a Penn State alumnus who spent two years at the Beaver campus, has a lengthy history of philanthropy. Continuing his legacy, Noxon has just established the Scott Noxon LGBTQA Scholarship for students at Penn State Beaver. The scholarship is the first of its kind at a Commonwealth campus.
Penn State alumnus Scott Noxon has created a new scholarship to assist students who advocate for, or contribute to, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally (LGBTQA) community.
