William H. Spence (left), 1979 graduate of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, was one of 16 Penn Staters honored by the Penn State Alumni Association on Oct. 23 with the Alumni Fellow Award, the highest award given by the Alumni Association. Spence, who is chairman and CEO of PPL Corporation, posed with his wife, Denise Spence, daughter, Rachel Siegel and son-in-law, Jason Siegel, at the dinner event held at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. The Alumni Fellow program is administered by the Penn State Alumni Association in cooperation with the University's academic colleges, campuses and the Office of the President. Alumni are nominated by a college or campus as leaders in their professional fields and accept an invitation from the president of the University to return to campus to share their expertise with students, faculty and administrators. Spence was nominated by Penn State Lehigh Valley.
From June 18-29, rising junior and senior high school students learned the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking in their daily lives through the Teen Entrepreneur Summer Challenge, hosted by Penn State Lehigh Valley and the Perkiomen School.
The Teen Entrepreneurship Summer Challenge was held from June 19 to June 30 and gave students the opportunity to experience life as an entrepreneur. The event culminated in a pitch competition on June 29 at the Lehigh Valley campus where students presented their ideas for new businesses.
Akash Kaneria, a sophomore information sciences and technology major at Penn State Lehigh Valley, interned at PPL in Allentown. "This internship makes it easier to understand what I am learning in classes because now I have a real example to compare it to," said Kaneria.
