Category: Events

• Penn Manor students qualify for state competition in 15 TSA events

  

  Penn Manor middle and high school students qualified for state competition in 15 different events at a recent Technology Student Association conference, where our students placed first in five events. In all, 25 Penn Manor students competed in the Pennsylvania TSA Region 2 Conference, held January 27 at Conestoga Valley High School. About 350 TSA…

• Penn Manor receives $3,000 TangerKids grant

  

  Many thanks to Tanger Outlets for donating $3,000 to Penn Manor through its TangerKids grant program. The money will be used to fund “Practice the Pause: Reset Your Mind,” a project to create “calming spaces” in each Penn Manor school where students can go to de-escalate when they are upset or frustrated. The grant is…

• Nominees sought for 2024 Outstanding Employee and Educator awards

  

  If you know of a teacher or other staff member who goes out of his or her way to help students and support our schools, please consider nominating them for an Outstanding Educator/Employee Award. The school district will present the 2023-2024 awards for Outstanding Elementary Educator, Outstanding Secondary Educator and Outstanding Employee later this year.…

• STEM careers highlighted for 9th-graders during JA’s STEM Summit

  

  Professionals from a variety of STEM fields converged at Penn Manor High School this week to give students hands-on experiences with science, technology, engineering, math and the trades during the 2024 STEM Summit. Ninth-graders rotated through eight different stations, where they worked in groups to build bridges out of spaghetti strands, complete electrical circuits, create…

• PM Education Foundation awards $38,000 in grants to teachers

  

  Penn Manor Education Foundation has awarded more than $38,000 worth of Venture Grants to district teachers to support innovative teaching during its fall 2023 funding cycle. The grants are funding such projects as the Cardboard Regatta STEM challenge, visits to local colleges, artists in residence, cellos and musical instrument repair supplies, field trips, chicken incubators,…

• Penn Manor adds Unified Bocce to its athletic programs

  

  Penn Manor is providing a new opportunity for its special education students to participate in interscholastic sports. A Unified Bocce program has been added for the winter athletic season to complement the spring Unified Track & Field program that has been available since 2018. Teams of eight students – four special education students and four…

• Central Manor third-grader co-writes book about building confidence

  

  When second-graders gathered in the academic commons at Hambright Elementary recently for a reading from a local author, they heard from someone barely older than them. It was Carter Mealy, a Central Manor third-grader, reading from the book, Like a Champion: A Story About Building Confidence. The book is about a young athlete, Champion, who…

• High school students participate in MRE Challenge 

  

    Meals created for the military while serving in the field, far away from the nearest mess hall or restaurant, are known for their ability to withstand almost any conditions – but not for their great taste.  Penn Manor Nutrition and Food Science students recently set out to change that.  They participated in an exercise called…

• Eshleman hosts ‘Cellebration’ to showcase students’ cell projects

  

  Dozens of parents, students and teachers streamed through the library at Eshleman Elementary School November 16 to participate in a “Cellebration” of what students have learned this year about cells. Using Styrofoam, shoe boxes, Legos, clay, pipe cleaners and other materials, the students created elaborate three-dimensional models showing the parts of a cell, including the…

• Manor FFA earns silver and gold medals at National FFA Convention and Expo

  

     Three teams of Manor FFA members earned gold or silver medals at the FFA National Convention and Expo, held October 30 to November 4 in Indianapolis.    The Poultry Evaluation team of Rachel Sensenich, Emily Railing, Jenna Railing, and Ava Crill earned a gold medal. Abby Harnish and Sara Gehr also were part of the team…