Category: Academics

• 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…

• Letort recognized by U.S. Rep. Smucker for Blue Ribbon award

  

  U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker visited Letort Elementary School Wednesday to formally recognize students and staff for earning the 2019 National Blue Ribbon School award. Smucker presented Letort principal Carly McPherson with a flag that was flown over the U.S. Capitol in recognition of Letort’s “incredible achievement and committment to educational excellence.” Smucker also presented a…

• Letort receives National Blue Ribbon honor in D.C. ceremony

  

  It’s official – Ann Letort Elementary School is 2019 National Blue Ribbon School! The school was formally honored Friday, Nov. 15, during a Blue Ribbon Schools ceremony at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., near Washington, D.C. Letort was honored, along with 361 other public and private schools, by the…

• Forty-eight students inducted into PMHS National Honor Society

  

  The Penn Manor chapter of the National Honor Society welcomed 48 new members during an induction ceremony Oct. 2 in the high school cafeteria. To qualify for NHS, the Penn Manor High School juniors and seniors had to maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.85 and demonstrate strong leadership, service and character traits. The…

• PMHS student writes chapter in open-source technology book

  

     Not many high school students can boast that they’re published authors, but Penn Manor’s Max Bushong can make that claim at the ripe old age of 15.     Bushong, a sophomore at Penn Manor High School, wrote a chapter in the new book The Open Organization Guide for Educators about his experience as a…

• Letort Elementary named a 2019 National Blue Ribbon School

  

     Penn Manor School District’s Letort Elementary has been named a National Blue Ribbon School for 2019 – one of just 362 schools in America to receive the honor.    The Blue Ribbon awards were announced Thursday, Sept. 26, by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.    Letort, with 312 students in kindergarten through grade six, was honored…

• Penn Manor staff members contribute nearly $20,000 to PM Ed Foundation

  

  Penn Manor employees this year contributed nearly $20,000 to the Education Foundation during the recent payroll contribution fund drive — the second increase in a row. More than 200 staff members contributed a total of $19,780 to help fund Penn Manor Education Foundation scholarships, Venture grants and Strong & Healthy Families program. PMEF expects to…

• Students, parents attend ‘Careers in Construction’ event at HS

  

  More than 40 students and parents learned about career opportunities in the construction field during a “Careers in Construction Exploration Event,” held at Penn Manor High School on Sept. 14. Participants got to handle construction tools and safety equipment and learned about the specific trades involved in the Penn Manor High School construction project. They…