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Real-World Projects Allow Students to Leave Lasting Impact

05.05.2017 Faculty & Staff, Landscape/Horticulture, Students, Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies
From left, landscape/horticulture technology majors Gabriela J. Grandy, Belleville; Natasha M. Martin, Avis; and Noah L. English, Bloomsburg, straighten a cherry tree at the ESC.
From left, landscape/horticulture technology majors Gabriela J. Grandy, Belleville; Natasha M. Martin, Avis; and Noah L. English, Bloomsburg, straighten a cherry tree at the ESC.
At WAHS, students planted trees, shrubs and perennials to enhance this semester's community-service project
At WAHS, students planted trees, shrubs and perennials to enhance this semester’s community-service project.
Completing the high school's legacy garden that incorporated students' skills, from design to ordering to installation
Completing the high school’s legacy garden that incorporated students’ skills, from design to ordering to installation

During a soggy Arbor Day week, one in which a damaging storm uprooted trees at Penn College and across the region, students fittingly did their part to beautify their natural surroundings. Horticulture instructor Carl J. Bower Jr. and his students performed maintenance on some of the trees in the Schneebeli Earth Science Center arboretum, and, at Williamsport Area High School (in a project that attracted front-page coverage in Tuesday’s Williamsport Sun-Gazette), Michael A. Dincher, assistant professor of horticulture, and students in his Landscape Construction (HRT 224) class put the finishing touches on a legacy garden near the Millionaires’ stadium.
Photos by Bower and Justin Shelinski, laboratory assistant for horticulture

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