Category: Academics

• Penn Manor HS earns third straight silver award from U.S. News

  For the third 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 improved its state ranking from No. 35 last year to No. 26 for 2017, and is the top-ranked high…

• Penn Manor students named tops in state in TSA competition

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School students Trey Erisman and Bryce Eberly, the top finishers in the Problem-Solving Competition at the Technology Student Association State Conference, held April 19-22 at Seven Springs Resort. Kudos, also, to the eight other Penn Manor students who finished in the top 10 in the competition, which included more than…

• PM history teacher Mealy publishes fourth book

  Congratulations to Penn Manor history teacher Todd Mealy on the publication of his fourth book. Titled “This is the Rat Speaking,” the nonfiction book chronicles the takeover of Franklin & Marshall College in 1969 by African-American students. On May 22 of that year, black students took faculty members hostage and demanded that the college diversify…

• Penn Manor student meets Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai

  Penn Manor High School student Gisela Espinosa got the shock of her life when she was asked to participate in a panel discussion this week and walked in the room to find Malala Yousafzai, the internationally known advocate for girls’ education, as the guest participant. “I was already scared to speak in public, and then Malala walks in!” Gisela recalled. “I was…

• Roth Named Region V Athletic Director of the Year

  Penn Manor athletic director Jeff Roth has received yet another honor from his peers. Roth, who has served as Penn Manor AD since 2001, will be honored this week as Athletic Director of the Year for Region V of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Directors Association. Region V includes schools in Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata,…

• Penn Manor students earn scholarships to study abroad

  Two Penn Manor High School students, Callie Clonch and Kiera Kirchner, have earned scholarships that will enable them to study in France and Belgium next school year. The Speedwell Foundation Study Abroad Scholarships, totaling about $16,000 each, are offered each year to 20 Central Pennsylvania high school students. Callie, a sophomore, and Kiera, a junior, have…

• Secretary Rivera visits PM students, staff

  Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera visited Pequea Elementary School Thursday to honor a couple of outstanding staff members and sit in on a sixth-grade class. Rivera congratulated bus driver Tracy Musser for starting a program that loans books to students to read every day on the bus or at home for pleasure. Musser, whose…

• PMHS students earn high marks in TEAMS competition

  Penn Manor students placed second and fourth in two divisions of the Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TEAMS) competition, held Feb. 28 at Warwick High School. The theme of the competition was “Engineering the Environment,” and students had to answer 80 multiple-choice questions on such topics as smart cars, biomimetic fluid dynamics and…

• Eshleman fifth-graders’ project earns IU 13 STEM award

  A team of Eshleman Elementary School fifth-graders has earned a third-place award in the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 STEM Consortium Student Competition. The team of Keira Stigelman, Lydia Meier, Elizabeth Pursel and Maggie Garvey designed and built a prototype of a “Sound Sleeper,” a pillow headband designed to be worn while sleeping to block out…

• Bus driver gets kids to read on their ride

  When Tracy Musser was growing up, she didn’t like to read and was horrified when asked to read aloud in school. Now an avid reader with two children of her own, Musser doesn’t want other youngsters to experience the difficulties she endured. So every day, she gives students riding bus No. 274 a choice of…