An entrance to the $6.5 million BC3 @ Armstrong facility in Ford City is shown Thursday, March 2. Butler County Community College has relocated BC3 @ Armstrong from Manor Township to Ford City, where the 15,000-square-foot facility has been built on the site of the former Ford City Junior-Senior High School. It opens to students March 13. Submitted photo

MANOR TWP — Faculty member Karlee Holmes’ midterm exam asked a question about cellular respiration.

Then, about k-selected species and r-selected species.

Austin Kennedy and Sadie Jageman, BC3 @ Armstrong students, printed their answers in the designated spaces.

The environmental biology course March 2 was the last of 364 to be instructed at the site in Manor Township, Armstrong County, established in 2015 to serve a Pennsylvania county under-represented by higher education.

Bill Foley is coordinator of news and media content at Butler County Community College.