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Published 11.08.2018

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    Tape measure at the ready, Andrew R. Hurd, a building construction technology student from Spring Mills, assesses a visitor's block-laying performance.Luse shares pointers with Julia R. Straub, a Penn State student well-acquainted with construction through her family's experience in the field. "I've been playing with plumbing since I was 8," she said, "but they never let me do the dirty work." Until now, that is!Highly visible in neon T-shirts, building construction technology majors Ian R. Myers (left), of Morrisdale, and James G. Vile Jr., of Sheffield, supervise several courses of brickwork.Keith C. Long, of Pitman, leads Penn State students through a long-standing crowd-pleaser: archway construction. Long is enrolled in building construction technology: masonry emphasis.More than 30 landscape architecture students of David Goldberg and Marc Miller, assistant professors in Penn State's Stuckeman School, visited the Construction Masonry Building on Thursday. The day's guests received hands-on instruction in a variety of technique and materials, circulating among workstations and mentored by adept Penn College construction students. Instructors Robert P. Gresko and Glenn R. Luse rotated along with them, sharing encouragement and expertise, and industry supporters aided the cause – including Spec Mix, which is also supplying mortar for the nearby expansion of welding labs. Architecture majors from University Park visit the college's School of Construction & Design Technologies twice a year, getting practical exposure to the craft involved in bringing their visionary plans into focus.

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