Author: Brian Wallace

• PM Quiz Bowl team headed for national competition

  Congratulations to the Penn Manor High School Quiz Bowl team for qualifying for national competition for the second year in a row.   Penn Manor finished third in the Lancaster-Lebanon League after a hard-fought series of matches against Manheim Township and Hempfield. Highlights of the season include participating in eight Saturday day-long tournaments, securing a second-place…

• PM boys’ soccer team named Academic Award Winner

  Congratulations to the Penn Manor boys’ soccer team for being named an Academic Award Winner by the United Soccer Coaches. The 2017-2018 team was one of just 107 boys’ teams nationwide to receive the honor for maintaining a team grade-point average of 3.25 or better. The Comets easily exceeded that threshold, with an average GPA…

• Penn Manor’s Miller named to Technology Leadership Academy

  Penn Manor High School teacher Molly Miller has been named to the 21st Century Leadership Academy by the Council on Technology & Engineering Teacher Education (CTETE).     Miller is one of only six educators named a Leadership Academy Fellow and is the only public school teacher selected for the honor. The other fellows are university…

• MiniTHON raises more than $41,000 to fight childhood cancer

  Thank you, Penn Manor students, staff, community members and businesses for making the 2019 Penn Manor MiniTHON such a success! The fundraising drive and dance marathon, which ran from Friday night to Saturday morning, raised $41,207 — far exceeding the goal of $30,000 and last year’s total of $26,694. The money will go to Four Diamonds, an…

• 28 PM students qualify for state TSA competition

  Twenty-eight Penn Manor students have qualified to compete on the state level after their strong showing at the Technology Student Association regional conference Feb. 9 at Huesken Middle School. Ten students from Manor and Marticville middle schools and 20 Penn Manor High School students competed against their peers from Lancaster, Berks and Lebanon counties in…

• Penn Manor’s Fellenbaum named Outstanding PA Ag Teacher

  Penn Manor High School agricultural education teacher Neil Fellenbaum has been named Pennsylvania’s Outstanding Teacher by the Pennsylvania Association of Agricultural Educators.     Fellenbaum was nominated for the award by his peers and is now in contention for a national award. “I am very humbled to receive the award, considering there are so many great…

• Neighborhood meeting on HS project to be held Feb. 26

  Neighbors of Penn Manor High School and interested parties are invited to attend an update on the high school project at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 26, in the high school library. Topics will include construction phasing over the next three years, the impact of the project on the surrounding neighborhood, and communication methods to keep…

• 14 PMHS seniors honored on National Signing Day

  Family and friends gathered Wednesday in the Penn Manor High School library to honor 13 seniors who will participate in collegiate sports at 12 different colleges and universities next fall and one who will attend a military academy. The National Signing Day ceremony featured students who will participate in 10 different sports and honored one student,…

• Rep. Cutler visits Penn Manor HS classrooms

  State Rep. Bryan Cutler visited Penn Manor High School Jan. 24 to learn more about our programs and to congratulate Penn Manor’s Teacher of the Year finalist. Cutler visited the psychology classroom of Maria Vita, who was one of 12 finalists vying for the 2019 Teacher of the Year award. Cutler congratulated Ms. Vita, then…

• School board approves bids on high school renovation/construction project

  The Penn Manor board of school directors voted 8-1 Jan. 22 to approve bids on the high school renovation and construction project. The board approved construction bids totaling $82.7 million and the notice for contractors to proceed on the project, which will replace major portions of the school and renovate others. New classroom, agricultural education and…