The Penn State Berks Sustainability Team announces the return of the college’s annual Earth Fest celebration. Earth Fest 2022: Striving for Sustainability, Equity, and Justice will be held on Monday, April 18, from 11 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
The Student Enterprise Award Contest is the Penn State Berks Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development (CEED) Center’s version of "Shark Tank." During the contest, students presented their ideas for a business startup, followed by a question-and-answer session with the committee.
Penn State student organizations and units at campuses across the commonwealth are presenting programming during National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Here’s a look at some of the events taking place at the University’s campuses during the month of April.
Each spring, Penn State Startup Week powered by PNC brings together the best and brightest Penn State student and alumni entrepreneurs and innovators for a weeklong celebration of what happens when Penn State’s inspired doers put their ideas into action.
Six Penn State student startups with representation across three different campuses plus the Graduate School at Penn State have been selected into the 2022 Invent Penn State Summer Founders program. Each student team will receive a $15,000 grant to work full time on its startup, social good or nonprofit over the summer at Happy Valley LaunchBox powered by PNC Bank.
"The Long Road to LGBTQ+ Equality in Pennsylvania," a traveling history exhibit that chronicles the efforts that activists have undertaken in Pennsylvania to achieve full equality for LGBTQ+ people, will be on view in the Penn State Berks Thun Library April 11–22. It is free and open to the public.
In January 2019, the Berks LaunchBox powered by Penn State opened its doors within the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in downtown Reading. Over the last three years, the Berks LaunchBox has grown substantially to become a cornerstone of support for budding entrepreneurs.
From teacher-in-training in Cambodia and Thailand, to social worker, to earning a master’s degree in school advising, to kindergarten teacher in China, to author, to voice talent for an education app –– there’s (virtually) nothing that Charlie Suero is afraid to try.