Category: Academics

• Head Start has openings at Martic, Millerville University

  

  Head Start’s preschool program has openings at Martic Elementary School and Millersville University for the 2019-2020 school year and will soon be accepting registrations for the 2020-2021 school year. The program is for children up to age 5 whose families meet income eligibility guidelines. Homeless children, foster children and families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy…

• 47 middle school students attend ‘Women Rock STEM’ event

  

  Forty-seven girls from Penn Manor middle schools learned about STEM careers from two female professionals during the recent “Women Rock STEM” event at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. Thirty students from Manor and 17 from Marticville middle schools attended the March 2 program, which featured Christine Ferreira, a meteorologist at WGAL-TV, and guest speaker Andrea Shirk,…

• 26 Penn Manor students qualify for state TSA conference

  

  Twenty-six Penn Manor students have qualified to compete on the state level after their strong showing at the Technology Student Association Region 2 Conference, held Feb. 8 at Conestoga Valley Middle School. Twelve students from Marticville and Manor middle schools and 14 Penn Manor High School students competed against their peers from Lancaster, Berks and…

• Thirteen seniors participate in National Signing Day

  

  Family members and friends gathered Wednesday, Feb. 5, in the Penn Manor High School library to honor 13 seniors who will participate in collegiate sports next fall. The National Signing Day ceremony featured 13 student athletes who will participate in six different sports in college. The group has a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 and includes…

• Manor FFA members earn Keystones, jackets at PA Farm Show

  

  Penn Manor High School students won several awards recently at the Pennsylvania Farm Show representing Manor FFA. Nine students – Cody Hurlburt, Darby Conrad, Kylie Kreider, Brenna McDevitt, Lauren Sensenich, Jolene Fields, Austin Kolb, Madeleine Denlinger and Renee Eshbach – earned Keystone Degrees. The Keystone is the fourth of five degrees FFA members can earn. …

• 17 PM students qualify for state Future Business Leaders conference

  

     Seventeen Penn Manor High School students have qualified to compete at the Future Business Leaders of America state conference in Hershey in April.    The students qualified by placing in the top two or three at the FBLA Region 18 Conference, held Dec. 18 at Cocalico High School. In addition to Penn Manor, students…

• PM Quiz Bowl team wins MT Academic Challenge

  

     Penn Manor’s varsity Quiz Bowl team outscored 21 other teams to take first place in the Manheim Township Academic Challenge, held Dec. 16 at Manheim Township High School.    The Penn Manor team of Max Keefer, Gabe McGough, Connor Mayers and Audrey Ritchie went 5-0 in the morning rounds and swept all three afternoon…

• Foundation awards $93,000 in grants to Penn Manor teachers

  

  Penn Manor Education Foundation has awarded a record $93,000 in Venture Grants to help teachers enhance learning opportunities for Penn Manor students. The grants will enable elementary students to create podcasts of immigrant families’ personal stories, help support a therapy dog for middle school students and add 3D printing pens, a CNC router and vertical…

• Nationally recognized Tubman researcher, author visits Penn Manor class

  

     Students in an AP Seminar class at Penn Manor High School this week had an opportunity to watch a new film about Harriet Tubman and learn firsthand about the painstaking research undertaken by an acclaimed biographer and author who helped assure the movie’s authenticity.     Kate Clifford Larson, author of the Tubman biography Bound…

• Five sworn in to serve on Penn Manor school board

  

  Five members of the Penn Manor board of school directors were sworn in Tuesday to serve four-year terms on the board. District Judge Joshua Keller administered the oath of office to Donna Wert, Carlton “Herk” Rintz, Mitchell Sweigart, Joe Fullerton and newcomer Dell Jackson. All were elected last month to serve on the all-volunteer board…