DuBois Area High School team took first place in the BEST Robotics Competition at Penn State DuBois on Oct. 21 to advance to the BEST Regional Championships, set for Nov. 29 through Dec. 1 at North Dakota State University.

CBT Bank of Clearfield has made an additional gift of $5,000 to CBT Scholarship at Penn State DuBois. The bank has pledged to make annual contributions to the fund, which will be distributed in its entirety to qualifying students each year.

In a continuing effort to strengthen community relationships, Penn State DuBois Chancellor M. Scott McBride, as well as Assistant Professor of Engineering Ram Rajagopalan, made presentations to the Rotary Club of DuBois at the group's meeting on Oct. 17.

Members of the Penn State DuBois Human Development and Family Studies Club paid a visit to the Child Advocacy Center in Clearfield on Oct. 13. They donated scarves, gloves and hats for children in need. They also received a tour of the facility, and met with Director Mary Tatum, as well as Clearfield County District Attorney Bill Shaw.

In an exciting match the Penn State DuBois Lady Lions defeated Penn State Beaver 3-1 this week. The DuBois Lady Lions pulled out the first two sets 25-19 and 25-18. In the third set Beaver rallied back to 23-21 to win the set 25-23. However, DuBois rallied back and won the fourth game convincingly by a score of 25-10.

The Penn State DuBois Golf Team won its second PSUAC Championship on Tuesday with an overall score of 635 in the two-day event. Coaches Vic Gearhart and Ron Cavaline had the team ready for the tough competition at the Blue Course at the Penn State University Park campus.

Bill Allenbaugh, an alumnus and retired faculty member of Penn State DuBois, has received the 2017 Penn State DuBois Alumni Society Outstanding Alumni Award.

A total of 200 students from 11 high schools visited Penn State DuBois on Oct. 6, for Manufacturing Day. Those attending learned about a significant need within areas of the manufacturing industry for skilled and well educated workers. Professionals representing local companies at the event said they are actively seeking skilled workers to fill their workforce demands, and hope that initiatives like Manufacturing Day can raise awareness that there is opportunity in the region for successful careers.

Assistant coach of the Penn State DuBois baseball team, Mike Nesbit, has found an all new way to support his team, as well as all campus athletes. Nesbit has just finished bottling his own wine at Starr Hill Winery, in Curwensville. He and his wife, Becky, with a winning bid of around $500, won the opportunity to do so in the Lion Wine and Cheese Fundraising Auction for campus athletics in April.

Nearly 40 men from Penn State DuBois stepped into high heels Sept. 27 for the "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" event. The men's march is meant to raise awareness of the battle against rape, sexual assault and gender violence, and to get more men involved in the fight.

Students in the Penn State DuBois Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) program have helped to restore confidence and freedom to some local senior citizens through a fall prevention program. The students held a workshop at the DuBois Senior Center on the first day of fall, a day that the National Fall Prevention Awareness Initiative is held each year.

It was a scorching afternoon for cross country in what could have been easily mistaken for a midsummer afternoon, but that did not deter the Penn State DuBois runners from bringing their own heat to the Penn State Mont Alto Invitational. Among the teams competing were Penn State teams from DuBois, Worthington-Scranton, Brandywine, Greater Allegheny, Fayette, Schuylkill and Mont Alto, as well as, Kent State. Representing the DuBois Nittany Lions were Rebecca Maine and Jeremy Fischer.

The Penn State DuBois golf team had a busy week with tournaments at Penn State New Kensington and Mount Aloysius.