Category: Academics

• Letort students, teachers sample augmented reality teaching tool

  Students and teachers at Letort Elementary School this week got to experience the potential of augmented reality in the classroom when they participated in Google for Education’s Augmented Reality Pioneer beta program. The school was selected to sample the new technology, which will enable insects, dinosaurs, volcanoes, earthquakes, planets and other objects to come alive before their…

• Penn Manor students use new technology to create virtual tour of Lancaster farming

  Penn Manor High School students have created a virtual reality tour using technology that will allow people from across the globe to learn about farming in Lancaster County. Penn Manor was chosen to participate in a beta project for Google Tour Creator, a new software program that enables schools and other institutions to create virtual…

• PMHS earns fourth straight Silver Medal, No. 1 ranking in county

  For the fourth year in a row, Penn Manor High School has been honored with a Silver Medal from U.S. News & World Report and is ranked the No. 1 high school in Lancaster County! Penn Manor is ranked No. 36 in Pennsylvania, and No. 1,335 in the United States, based on the magazine’s 2018…

• Manor MS student earns Scholastic Writing poetry award

  Manor Middle School eighth-grader Ella Layton has earned a Scholastic Writing Award for a collection of poems she wrote over the past year. Ella chose five poems – “Unsaid,” “Hesitation,” “Bind,” “Paradise” and “Mess” — to submit to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. She earned a Silver Key, the second-highest award, for the…

• Manor FFA members help kick off 10 Million Trees campaign

  Six Manor FFA members on April 24 helped kick off of an effort to plant 10 million trees over the next seven years to help reduce pollution into the Chesapeake Bay. The students gathered at a Manheim farm, along with state and federal officials, to plant the first 100 trees in the Keystone 10 Million…

• Penn Manor HS students place first in Sea, Air & Land Challenge

  A team of Penn Manor High School students placed first in the Sea, Air and Land Challenge, held April 24 at Lancaster Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13. Moses Buckwalter, Graham Thomas, Maxwell Kreitzer, Wesley Kendig and Thomas Hockenberry – all freshmen – won the air portion of the competition, which required teams to design, build and fly drones over a simulated wooded…

• Penn Manor students bring home state TSA awards

  Congratulations to Marticville Middle School student Jaden Smith, who placed first in Pennsylvania in the Children’s Stories category of the Technology Student Association State Conference, held April 18-21 at Seven Springs Resort. Jaden was among the 14 Penn Manor students who finished in the top 10 in the competition, which included more than 1,900 of…

• Four named to Penn Manor Alumni Wall of Honor

  Congratulations to the four new members of the Penn Manor Alumni Wall of Honor – Joshua Herr, Craig Kauffman, J. Samuel Walker and Jan Mindish. Herr (Class of 2001) is Design Director for Creative Direction for Adidas and leads the Originals team, which works with celebrity designers. Herr’s team developed XENO, a new shoe material…

• Updated design proposals for high school released

  More details on the proposed renovation and reconstruction of Penn Manor High School were shared this week with Penn Manor booster groups. District architects Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates presented the latest design proposals of what the school might look like when construction is completed, including more details on athletics and arts facilities and the exterior appearance of the…

• Two PMHS students named Agricultural Sciences Scholars

  Two Penn Manor High School juniors have been selected to attend the prestigious Pennsylvania School for Excellence in the Agricultural Sciences. Arilyn Tegtmeier-Oatman and Rylee Mellott were named PSEAS Scholars and will attend the four-week program in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University. Only about 40 students from across Pennsylvania are selected…