The Adopt an Apartment project was the 2016 recipient of United Way’s TeenWorks top “Making a Difference Award.” The program and the students involved were recognized at United Way’s annual dinner on Jan. 28, 2017.
A group of Penn State Lehigh Valley students traveled to University Park last week to participate in the Deloitte Undergraduate Case Competition, with one Lehigh Valley team advancing all the way to the final round.
Felisa Del Carmen Preciado, administrative fellow for the office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses and clinical associate professor of supply chain management at the Smeal College of Business; one of the Penn State Lehigh Valley teams: Muhammed Sheikh, Samuel Johnson, Kristen Swantek and Marena Trauger; and club adviser Mike Krajsa, instructor in marketing and management at Penn State Lehigh Valley celebrated the team's fourth place finish in the Deloitte Case Competition.
A group of 12 first-year and sophomore Penn State Lehigh Valley students, who are all members of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Society, represented three of the 15 teams chosen to compete out of 26 total teams that applied for the Deloitte Case Competition, held Feb. 1 to 3 at University Park. Club Adviser Mike Krajsa (left, back row) posed with the students after the competition.
Dan Ventura, a senior information sciences and technology major at Penn State Lehigh Valley, said he learned valuable lessons while interning at Deloitte. "I learned innovation is key to evolving and that hard work pays off. I also learn more about the competitive and growing industry of cyber security."
The theme of the two-week seminar in D.C. was civil discourse, and it was an extension of the fall American studies course that utilized the biographies of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
