Three Penn State Wilkes-Barre students were selected as award recipients for 2024 from Arts at Hayfield, the nonprofit campus and community arts organization at Penn State Wilkes-Barre. The organization granted a total of $2,500 in academic awards to the students.
Verma left her home in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, where she was born and raised, on a three-night journey that would take her to the next step in her education — fall semester at Penn State Wilkes-Barre. She is majoring in aerospace engineering and hopes one day to work for NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosted a workshop in September that allowed students to use their knowledge about a geographic information system to tackle a real-world problem in impoverished communities in Brazil: How can packages be delivered to people who live in areas without official addresses?
Penn State Wilkes-Barre held its first Surveying Career Summit on Oct. 16, providing high school students interested in surveying engineering with the opportunity to visit the campus and learn more about their field of interest.
They first met in kindergarten, and now they’re in college together. Caleb Balas, Nikolas Kistner and Alexis McGrady were educated at Hanover Area schools throughout elementary, middle and high school. Coming from a graduating class of 111 students, they frequently saw each other throughout school. Since they each made their college choice individually, they didn’t know they would continue to see each other at Penn State Wilkes-Barre — and all three said it’s nice seeing familiar faces.
