On May 5, Penn State Mont Alto will honor 129 graduating students and confer 131 degrees — 78 bachelor’s degrees and 53 associate degrees. Two students will receive two degrees. Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro A. Rivera will give the Commencement address. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. in the Multipurpose Activities Center (MAC).
The Penn State Mont Alto Chorale will host its Fourth Annual Choral Festival on May 5 in the Multipurpose Activities Center (MAC) during a grand evening of musical performances with five other local schools and about 160 student voices. The festival is open to the public and will begin at 6:30 p.m. General Admission tickets will be $5 per person at the door.
More than 100 Penn State Mont Alto students presented and displayed their best academic and artistic work during the Thirteenth Annual Penn State Mont Alto Academic Festival on April 20, 2018. Following the festival, winners were announced and recognized during an awards ceremony in the General Studies Building Auditorium
The Penn State Mont Alto Chorale will perform "Music from the Stage and Screen" during its spring concert beginning at 7 p.m. April 29 in the General Studies Auditorium under the direction of music instructor J. Frederick Davison. It is open to the public and free of charge.
Forestry students and Woodsmen Team members are surprised by a gift from world-renowned international lumberjill Martha King '11, a Mont Alto Woodsmen Team alumna.
The Mont Alto LaunchBox, a business incubator funded by a seed grant from Penn State’s Invent Penn State initiative, will offer a free workshop titled “Choosing an Appropriate Business Form,” for aspiring entrepreneurs from 6 to 7 p.m. April 26 at 40 North Second Street in Chambersburg.
On April 7, the Penn State Mont Alto Woodsmen Team took first from among the best collegiate lumberjacks in the region at the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Spring Woodsmen’s Meet in Troy, North Carolina.
Stand for State, Penn State’s bystander intervention initiative, recently asked students, faculty and staff at all Penn State campuses to explore what connects us as part of an interactive event called “All That We Are.”
On April 13, Penn State Mont Alto theater students will perform a puppet show about recycling and a creative drama on sharing beginning at 3 p.m. at the Waynesboro YMCA located at 80 East Main Street in Waynesboro. About 60 children, ages 3 to 5 years old will attend the performance.
Penn State Mont Alto will hold its annual trauma-scenario training exercise for forest technology and nursing students from 8 a.m. to noon on April 19 at the campus. During the event, students will collaborate with multiple agencies to rescue two injured foresters who have been in a tree harvesting accident — one will be a mobile, high-fidelity human simulation patient named i-Stan.
