Category: Events

• Central Manor students featured in Google CS First video

  

  Students and staff at Central Manor Elementary School are among the “stars” of a new video created by Google to promote its CS First software, which helps students learn coding. The 3½ -minute video, “CS First: Unlock Opportunities for Students with Computer Science,”  was released to the public on January 3. View it here. Over…

• Penn Manor senior places first in anti-litter photo contest

  

  When Maddie Whited was exploring the woods at her family’s cabin in Huntingdon in early November, she came across a pile of trash that, while unsightly, proved to be an inspiration. Among the debris was a discarded television set with leaves and twigs where the screen used to be. Maddie snapped several photos of the…

• Lunch & Learn activities offered to pre-schoolers beginning January 31

  

    Beginning January 31, each of our seven elementary schools will welcome preschool children and their parents/guardians to story time, crafts, lunch and a visit to the school library to check out books that will be returned the following month.     Called Lunch & Learn, this program is designed to familiarize future students and their…

• Cardboard Regatta sets sail at Millersville University pool

  

  It was sink or swim on December 21 as Penn Manor High School Physics students set sail in the Cardboard Regatta at the Millersville University swimming pool. The event pitted teams of students against one another to determine which boats — constructed entirely out of cardboard and duct tape — could stay afloat the longest.…

• PA Education Secretary Eric Hagarty visits Penn Manor schools

  

  Penn Manor was honored to welcome Eric Hagarty, Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of education, to its schools on December 22. Hagarty, the top education official in the state, met with the district administrative team and toured the high school before visiting Hambright and Eshleman Elementary Schools. He was invited to Penn Manor by Elizabeth Raff, the…

• FFA members visit elementary schools to teach about agriculture

  

  Manor FFA members visited all seven elementary schools in Penn Manor recently to share their enthusiasm for agriculture with third-graders. During the Ag in the Classroom visits on November 14 and 16, the older students talked to the youngsters about poultry, sheep and goats and the different products, breeds and types of each animal. They…

• District honors former school board members, administrators at dinner

  

  Penn Manor honored several of its former school directors and administrators Monday night during a Leadership Dinner at the high school. The event brought together former school board directors and district administrators, who dined with Penn Manor’s current leadership team and its nine school directors. “The dinner was an opportunity to celebrate and recognize those…

• Manor FFA students earn awards in regional competition

  

  Several Penn Manor agricultural education students placed among the top third in several categories in the FFA Eastern Fall Regional Competition, held November 15 at Lebanon Valley Exposition Center and Fairgrounds. The students, all members of Manor FFA, were competing against other FFA members from Lancaster, Lebanon, Chester, Cumberland, Berks, Schuylkill and Philadelphia Counties.  In…

• STEM Summit gives freshmen a trial run at science and technology careers

  

  Penn Manor ninth-graders got to explore careers in science, technology, engineering, math and the trades during a two-day STEM Summit, held in the high school auxiliary gymnasium November 30 and December 1. Throughout both days, students rotated through seven different stations, where they got to conduct science experiments and participate in engineering and math competitions…

• Penn Manor students to perform in holiday concerts

  

  Penn Manor students will be performing in free holiday concerts at a variety of venues in the coming weeks. Here’s the schedule:   We hope you are able to attend one or more of these performances by our talented students.