Category: Community

• High school hosts Education Day/College and Career Expo

  

  Hundreds of Penn Manor High School students gave their college and career plans a jump start by attending the 32nd annual Education Day/College and Career Expo, held November 4 in the high school gym. More than 100 colleges, universities, trade schools, businesses and the military participated, providing information and brochures (plus some nifty swag) to…

• Penn Manor juniors learn personal financial lessons during REAL Life

  

  “I’m $6,000 in debt!” and “I’m broke!” were just a few of the comments Penn Manor High School juniors made this week as they learned practical financial lessons through engaging exercises as part of the REAL Life financial literacy program, sponsored by Junior Achievement of South Central PA. All 11th graders participated in REAL Life…

• Middle school students learn about trades during ‘Construction Wars’

  

  Twenty Penn Manor middle schoolers learned about the construction industry directly from professionals in the field by attending “Construction Wars,” a career exploration event held October 15 through 17 at the Keystone Center for Construction Careers in Manheim. Ten students each from Manor and Marticville Middle Schools participated,  building wooden benches, testing electrical circuits, making…

• Gonzalez inspires PMHS students to be ‘all in’

  

  Penn Manor High School students were recently inspired to go “all in” during an assembly featuring Gian Paul Gonzalez, who is credited with helping the New York Giants secure their most recent Super Bowl title. Gonzalez told the students how he was an unknown Union City, N.J., social studies teacher when the Giants asked him…

• Penn Manor crowns Homecoming King and Queen

  

  Cristofer Arias-Orozco and Alyssa Mattern were named Penn Manor’s Homecoming King and Queen at halftime of Friday’s homecoming football game against Wilson. The runners-up were Kennedy Dings and William Jack Cassidy.  Other members of this year’s homecoming court were Ava Wolfersberger, Harrison Whited, Jack Warfel, Madelyn Stern, Janelle Ortiz, David Ferre, Syria Davis, Owen Braas, Tyler…

• Revised district office hours announced

  

  Effective Monday, October 14, the Penn Manor District Office will be closed daily from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to provide a lunch break for our staff. The office will continue to be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed on holidays. We encourage visitors to call the district receptionist…

• Sixteen PMHS students earn national academic awards

  

  Fifteen Penn Manor seniors have recently been honored with national awards for academic achievement. David Ferre, James Helm and Gavin Roberts were named National Merit Scholarship Commended Students for being among the 50,000 highest scorers among all students who took the PSAT/NMSQT test in October 2023. Twelve other Penn Manor seniors have been honored with…

• Sixteen seniors vying for title of Homecoming King and Queen

  

  Sixteen Penn Manor High School seniors are vying for the title of 2024 Homecoming King and Queen while raising money to support Penn Manor families in need. Ava Wolfersberger, Harrison Whited, Jack Warfel, Madelyn Stern, Janelle Ortiz, Alyssa Mattern, David Ferre, Kennedy Dings, Syria Davis, Owen Braas, Tyler Book, Cristofer Arias-Orozco, Eric Baker, Akriti Neupane,…

• National Honor Society welcomes 46 new members

  

  The Penn Manor Chapter of the National Honor Society welcomed 46 new members during an induction ceremony September 25 at Penn Manor High School. View video The juniors and seniors qualified for induction by maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 4.0 and demonstrating the four pillars of the organization – scholarship, leadership, service…

• PM technology trainer Judy Keller named Google Innovator

  

  Penn Manor technology trainer Judy Keller has been named a Google for Education Certified Innovator, one of only 150 educators worldwide to receive the honor for 2024. Judy qualified following a highly competitive process in which she submitted a portfolio of her work, recommendations from colleagues, a video about herself and a student-focused project she…