Students to perform ‘Christmas at Belmont’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than 600 student musicians and vocalists at Belmont University will perform in the beloved annual concert tradition, “Christmas at Belmont Live from Nashville.”

Riley Blake of Port Matilda, Holden Cessna of Clearville and Alex Snyder of Martinsburg will perform along with more than 600 Belmont student musicians and vocalists as well as notable Belmont alumni Ashley Cooke, Cody Fry and Dwan Hill with The Choir Room.

“Christmas at Belmont Live from Nashville” highlights the College of Music & Performing Arts’ commitment to creativity and excellence, and the 90-minute performance filmed live in front of an audience at the University’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts will feature more than 600 student musicians and vocalists.

Filming will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 25 and it will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3. Whether you choose to be part of the live filming in November or the December performance, you can expect the same magical experience from talented Belmont students and a special guest artist. (Performances have been sold out.)

South Hills students part of Hacktoberfest

To join in with the celebration of Hacktoberfest, South Hills School of Business & Technology’s Altoona Campus hosted an in-person meetup, giving participants hands-on experience with the power of open-source and seeing its impact on the tech world and beyond.

Hacktoberfest is a global celebration of open-source software that runs throughout the month of October.

Open-source software is developed and maintained through community collaboration, freely available for anyone to use, modify, and share.

Attendees explored open-source cybersecurity tools, caught hackers in a trap and spent some time capturing digital flags in the capture-the-flag challenge.

They also made their first contributions to GitHub and used open-source software to track the aircraft flying over Blair County during the event.

Student inducted into Order of the Engineer

TROY, N.Y. — On Oct. 30, Ashton Ropp of Loretto was among the 210 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seniors inducted into the Order of the Engineer, a national organization dedicated to upholding the highest ethical standards for the engineering profession.

In addition to taking the Order pledge, each inductee received a stainless-steel ring to be worn on the little finger of their dominant hand. The rings represent each student’s daily commitment to serving humanity through engineering.

These students will follow in the footsteps of RPI graduates who, since 1824, have applied technology and innovation to solving the world’s toughest problems.