Rachel Klemmenson, a Penn State New Kensington student and member of the STEAM Outreach Club, is pictured right with third grade student Evelyn DeAntonio, during Stewart Elementary School's Third Grade STEAM Move-Up event. Klemmenson and other members of the STEAM Outreach Club attended the event to showcase robotics and other science, technology, engineering, art and math activities to the youth and their families. The event was just one of the many activities the club attends throughout the year to promote STEAM-related education and skill sets.
Advisors and student some members of Penn State New Kensington's STEAM Outreach Club pose for a photo at Burrell School District's Stewart Elementary School during its holiday STEAM Night in December. Pictured from left to right are: Kristen Pueschel, associate teaching professor of mathematics at the New Kensington campus and club advisor; Melinda Spampinato, educational consultant with ABC CREATE and club advisor; Rachel Klemmensen, New Kensington campus student; Nathan Meyer, New Kensington campus student; Jack Betler, New Kensington campus student; and Joie Marhefka, associate teaching professor and program coordinator of biomedical engineering technology at the New Kensington campus and club advisor.
Penn State New Kensington's STEAM Outreach Club shares science, technology and more skill sets with youth in local school districts and at community events throughout the academic year.
Mylinda Scott, pictured left, and Sonya Selvaraj, right, hold the Pennsylvania Society of Radiologic Technologists Techni-bowl Cup. The duo, who are both second-year radiological sciences students at Penn State New Kensington, won the 2024 Techni-bowl competition held in Harrisburg, Pa. in March. Although other teams from the campus have placed in the past, Scott and Selvaraj comprise the first team to ever place first in the event, which started in 2010.
A Penn State New Kensington radiological sciences student team took the win in the 2024 Pennsylvania Society of Radiological Technologists Techni-bowl competition held March.
Penn State New Kensington will host a "Special Talk with the Allegheny County Airport Authority" on Tuesday, April 16, in the campus Art Gallery at 12:05 p.m. during Common Hour. Members of the campus community and public are invited to attend.
Gabby Wolfkill, a biobehavioral health student at Penn State New Kensington, presented her undergraduate research project, "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," at the 2024 Research and Student Engagement Expo at the campus on April 9. Wolfkill's project was one of nearly 50 presented at the annual event.
