Category: Awards

• Education Foundation awards more than $37,000 in spring 2022 grants

  

  The Penn Manor Education Foundation has awarded more than $37,000 in grants to teachers, counselors and social workers to support Penn Manor students and their families for spring 2022. The grant awards are in addition to the more than $40,000 in Venture Grants awarded to Penn Manor teachers in fall 2021. This latest round of…

• Educators and Employee of the Year, longtime staff and retirees honored at Recognition Night

  

  Penn Manor honored 26 retirees with more than 600 combined years of service, along with its employees of the year during Employee Recognition Night, held April 12 at Penn Manor High School. About 100 people attended the event, which included a reception with food and drinks, followed by the recognition of the Outstanding Educators and…

• Two Penn Manor students to participate in All-State Music Festival

  

  Two Penn Manor High School students have qualified to participate in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association’s All-State Music Festival. Senior Grace Fafel has qualified to perform in the All-State Chorus Concert as an alto 1 through her vocal all-state audition following regional chorus. Junior Nicole Chen has qualified to accompany the concert band on piano…

• Fifteen Penn Manor students receive Young Artists & Scholastic Art Awards

  

  The artwork of 15 talented Penn Manor High School students will be on display beginning March 12 in downtown Lancaster as part of the Scholastic Art Awards and the Lancaster County Young Artists Awards exhibitions. The Penn Manor students won awards in one or both of the competitions, with several students earning multiple awards. In…

• Seven PMHS students qualify for Regional Chorus Festival

  

    Seven Penn Manor students have been selected to participate in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association’s Region V Chorus Festival in March.    Elizabeth Lebo (soprano 2), Paige Wall, Emily Witmer and Grace Fafel (alto 1); Kaleb Kabakjian (bass 1); and Nicole Chen (piano accompanist) all qualified to participate in the regional festival, to be…

• Penn Manor esports team wins state title

  

  Congratulations to the Penn Manor High School Rocket League varsity esports team, which won the state championship February 3 with a 3-0 win over Coatesville High School. The team of Tyler Moore, Seth Lyter, Nate Mintzer, and Alex Rivera finished the winter season with a 9-0 record and the Pennsylvania Scholastic Esports League state title.…

• 21 student athletes honored at Penn Manor’s National Signing Day

  

  Penn Manor hosted a National Signing Day ceremony February 2 to honor 21 high school seniors who plan to participate in collegiate sports next fall. The group has an average GPA of 3.67 and includes several multi-sport athletes and students who are involved in a wide range of co-curricular activities in addition to sports, including Aevidum,…

• Rep. Smucker presents commendation to PA Teacher of Year Mrs. Raff

  

  Many thanks to U.S. Representative Lloyd Smucker, who visited the Pequea Elementary classroom of Elizabeth Raff, the 2022 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, on January 25 to observe her class and present her with a commendation. The congressman sat in on part of a lesson in which Mrs. Raff’s classroom was decorated like a spy…

• Fullerton elected president of the IU13 board of school directors

  

     Congratulations to Penn Manor school board member Dr. Joe Fullerton, who was recently elected president of the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 board of school directors.    IU13 is an education service agency that is governed by a 22-member board of directors that includes school board representatives from each of the 22 districts within IU13,…

• Penn Manor students earn awards at PA Thespian Conference

  

  Penn Manor students received several awards for their work during the PA Thespians State Conference, held December 3 and 4 at North Penn High School in Lansdale. Hannah Fogell received an All-Star Cast Member award for her portrayal of Mrs. Peacock in the recent Penn Manor production of “Clue.” Three students were named to the…