The Mont Alto LaunchBox will provide inspiration and education for entrepreneurs in November during three events that include an Entrepreneur Information Session on Nov. 12, and an Entrepreneurship Fall Forum on Nov. 14. The third event, an Entrepreneur Workshop, will be held on Nov. 29 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The events are all free of charge and open to the public.

On Oct. 31, Penn State Mont Alto’s Student Nursing Association of Pennsylvania (SNAP) will host a safe alternative for trick-or-treaters with a Trunk-or-Treat on the Mont Alto Campus. The event will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Penn State Mont Alto commuter parking lot. Local families are invited to participate. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

The Penn State Mont Alto Forestry Club will host Ryan Davis, forests program manager for the Alliance of the Chesapeake Bay, for a talk titled “Forests for Bats” from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 30 in the General Studies Building Auditorium on campus.

Lt. Col. Barbara B. Cross will be the featured speaker during the Penn State Mont Alto Student Veterans Association’s annual Veterans Day celebration on Nov. 9. The event will begin at 12:20 p.m. at the Veteran’s Memorial behind Conklin Hall on the Mont Alto campus.

On Oct. 25, The Mont Alto LaunchBox will present a workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs, titled “Intellectual Property.” Rachel Herder, assistant professor of clinical law and intellectual property clinic director at Penn State Law, will describe the four main types of intellectual property – patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. The event will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the LaunchBox facility, located at 40 North Second Street in Chambersburg. All aspiring entrepreneurs are invited to attend free of charge.

Penn State Mont Alto will host a reception for Haley Wagaman, a 22-year-old artist from Saint Thomas, Pennsylvania, from 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 18, in the library on campus. The exhibit, which will feature watercolor paintings with pop-culture and local Southern Pennsylvania historic themes, will be on display through Dec. 15. The public is invited to meet Wagaman, view her work, and enjoy refreshments at no charge.

The Mont Alto LaunchBox, a program to support entrepreneurs in Franklin County, will host its inaugural Entrepreneurship Fall Forum from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. on Nov. 14 in the Wiestling Student Center on Penn State Mont Alto’s campus. The forum will feature Penn State students Shevy Karbasi and Jobe Matula, who have developed their own business ideas and acquired early-stage funding to help develop their products. The forum is open to all aspiring business entrepreneurs at no charge.