School Notes
Michael Boyer, a technology education teacher at North Penn High School, has received a Teacher Excellence Award from the International Technology Education Association.
Boyer was one of 38 high school teachers across the country to get the award, and the only one from Penn-
sylvania. At North Penn, he teaches analog electronics in the technology department and digital electronics and engineering design and development in the engineering academy.
Boyer graduated from North Penn High in 1992 and from Millersville University in 1996. That year, he started working for the North Penn district.
For more information about the International Technology Education Association in Reston, Va., visit www.iteaconnect.org.
Arcadia University's Student Activist Club will present "Project: Africa," a program that aims to raise awareness of needy African countries, at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Chat Performance Area, 450 S. Easton Rd., Glenside.
The program will include a showing of Invisible Children, a documentary about abandoned youth in Uganda. Among the speakers will be Arcadia senior Thon Gabriel Akok, one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, and Daniel Dotse, an Arcadia student from Ghana who will discuss an annual book drive for libraries in his country.
Admission is free. For more information, call 215-572-4082. For more on the documentary, visit www.invisiblechildren.com.
Montgomery County Community College has entered into an agreement with Widener University in Chester that helps graduates in the community college's engineering science program.
MCCC students who earn an associate's degree in engineering science will be admitted into the Bachelor of Science in Engineering program at Widener University. There, they may choose courses of study that include chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.
"Every agreement we have with a baccalaureate-granting institution is important because it validates our mission and the excellence of our faculty," Karen Stout, president of Montgomery County Community College, said in a statement.
This is the second program-to-program agreement between the colleges. In 2006, the two agreed that MCCC graduates with an associate's degree in radiography or surgical technology may be admitted into Widener's Bachelor of Science in Allied Health program.
For more on the community college's engineering science program, visit www.mc3.edu/aa/
career/programs/eg.html or call William Brownlowe, associate professor and coordinator of engineering technology, at 215-641-6644.
The Norristown Garden Club is offering scholarships to students living in or attending high school or college in Montgomery County who plan to pursue or further a college education in horticulture, forestry, landscape architecture, land management and related fields.
The scholarships are worth $2,000. For more information, or for an application form, visit www.gardencentral.org/pa/norristown, or call 610-584-4429 or 215-643-3067.


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