Category: Events

• 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…

• High school hosts Education Day/Career Expo November 6

  

  Penn Manor High School hosted an Education Day and Career Expo November 6 that included representatives from more than 100 colleges, trade schools, businesses and the military. The event, held in the gymnasium, gave all students in grades 9 through 12 and their parents – who were welcome to attend – an opportunity to learn…

• Penn Manor Productions to present fall play Nov. 17 and 18

  

    Penn Manor Productions will present the fall play, Puffs – or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, by Matt Cox, on November 17 and 18 in the high school auditorium.    Showtimes are 7:30 both nights, and tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students. You can purchase them…

• Penn Manor Marching Unit earns honors in USBands Competition

  

  The Penn Manor Marching Unit completed its fall 2023 competition season on a high note, placing second overall in the USBands Regional Competition, held October 28 in Camp Hill that included 15 bands from Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia.  In the divisional round, Penn Manor placed second, with a score of 83.7 points, less than…

• Fifteen Penn Manor students selected for District Chorus

  

  A record 15 Penn Manor High School students have been selected to participate in the District 7 Chorus Festival, following auditions held October 28. The students were among nearly 700 who tried out for 200 slots in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association festival, to be held in January at ELCO High School.  The Penn Manor…