Category: Academics

• State champion bowlers honored by school board

  Penn Manor school board Monday honored members of the high school bowling team for their championship season. The Comets compiled a record of 77-14 and were named Lancaster-Lebanon League Section I and L-L League champions and placed second in the PA Eastern Regionals. The Penn Manor boys’ team went on to win the state title, a…

• PMHS seniors receive 156 scholarships/awards

  Penn Manor High School seniors got a boost to their post-high school plans when members of the Class of 2016 received 156 scholarships and awards totaling $113,175 during the Senior Awards Ceremony on May 19. The honors included more than 30 scholarships and awards administered by Penn Manor Education Foundation totaling more than $60,000. The top recipients were Emily…

• Student speakers named for June 7 commencement

  Five student speakers have been named for Penn Manor High School’s 2016 commencement, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 7, at Franklin & Marshall College Alumni Sports and Fitness Center. Evan Toomey, John “Jack” Zimmerman, Danielle Wright, Emily Ferrick and Emily Thyrum will address the graduates and guests during the ceremony. Evan is class valedictorian.…

• HS Master Plan workshop to be held May 16

  Penn Manor school board will hold a workshop on Monday, May 16, on the High School Master Plan beginning at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of Manor Middle School. Board members will review the four construction options being considered for the high school and discuss feedback from the public and financing options. Public input is…

• Outstanding employees, retirees honored

  Penn Manor school district honored nine retirees with nearly 200 years of  combined service May 4 during the 37th annual Employee Recognition Dinner in the high school cafeteria. Attendees watched a video presentation of comments by the retirees, each of whom will be remembered with a brick in the courtyard outside the Penn Manor High School auditorium.…

• Penn Manor TSA students are tops in PA

  Penn Manor has four new state champions — when it comes to solving technology problems. Teams of two students each from the high school and Manor Middle School placed first in the Technology Problem Solving competition at the recent state conference of the Technology Student Association (TSA). The first-place finishes by Zach Schucker and Ray…

• High School earns second straight Silver Medal

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School faculty, staff, students and administration for earning a Silver Medal from U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year! The high school had the highest ranking of any school in Lancaster County for 2016 and was No. 35 in the state and No. 1,308 in the nation. The…

• PM Ed Foundation awards $46,000 in grants

  Manor Middle School teacher Chris Telesco wanted to take several male students on field trips as part of a program called Fusion that matches boys from broken homes with teacher mentors for after-school activities. But the cost of bus transportation and admission fees was prohibitive. Enter the Penn Manor Education Foundation, which awarded Telesco a…

• PM students earn Scholastic Writing Awards

  Congratulations to the 13 Penn Manor students who won awards for outstanding writing in the 2015-2016 Lancaster County Scholastic Writing Awards competition, sponsored by Lancaster Public Library. Penn Manor students won 14 Scholastic Awards, including three Gold Keys, the top honor, and six Silver Keys. Four Penn Manor students also earned writing awards in the Newspaper…

• PM students earn multiple TSA awards

  Forty-two Penn Manor high school and middle school students won multiple awards at the recent Pennsylvania Region 2 Technology Student Association competition at Conestoga Valley Middle School. Vying against hundreds of students from 16 neighboring school districts, TSA students from Manor and Marticville middle schools and Penn Manor High School competed in a variety of…