ABINGTON,Pa. — Two new Penn State Abington graduates share a bond that has taken them from their teenage years to the launch of their careers.
Avi Patel and Dhruv Parekh met in 10th grade when they lived in the same apartment complex and attended Bucks County’s Bensalem High School. They discovered a mutual interest in technology and later enrolled at Abington, majoring in information sciences and technology (IST) with a focus on integration and application.
They chose to attend Abington due to the stellar reputation of its IST program and its location near their hometown.
"We knew past graduates and had many friends who studied information technology at Abington, so that’s how we wound up here,” Patel said.
The pair were in most classes together thanks to the small class sizes at Abington, including IST 497: Gaming in Scotland, a course this spring that included an international travel component to Abertay University, home of the United Kingdom’s premier video game program. They worked on developing a prototype game with a multidisciplinary team of Abington and Abertay students.
“It was an incredible learning experience,” Parekh said.