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Registration for College for Kids is Now Open

New class topics, including dinosaurs, music, snow creation, roller coasters, underwater robotics, and movie making, will be offered at this year’s College for Kids, the summer youth program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

Included in the new offerings is “Survivor: Behrend Edition,” a class inspired by the popular television show of the same name. In the class, students will learn survival techniques while interacting with local search and rescue specialists.

Want to Win in the NHL? Score First -- but not until the Third

The team that scores first has an advantage in a National Hockey League game. That should be obvious: They are, at that point, winning.

The extent of that advantage, however, depends on when the goal is scored. If it comes at any point in the first two periods of a game, the probability that the team scoring first will win is 66.7 percent, said Samantha Key, a mathematics major at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.