Category: Student Voices

• Future of high school is topic of Oct. 22 meeting

  

  You are invited to participate in an important meeting on the future of Penn Manor High School. On Thursday, Oct. 22, the district will hold the first of several public presentations on renovating or replacing the school. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Built in the 1950s and partially renovated beginning in…

• Penn Manor student earns national music honor

  

  Penn Manor High School senior Caleb Breidenbaugh has been selected to perform with some of the most talented student musicians from across the United States on the Grand Ole Opry Stage in Nashville in October. Caleb was named a member of the All-National Honor Ensemble, a group of “the best of the best” musicians from…

• Congressman honors Penn Manor HS artist

  U.S. Rep. Joseph Pitts recently honored a Penn Manor High School senior by recognizing her artistic accomplishments in a citation read into the official Congressional Record. It’s the latest honor for Alessandra Levato, who last year earned a $10,000 scholarship for her winning painting in a nationwide art competition. Pitts, an artist himself, met with Ali this…

• 14 PM students earn Scholastic Writing awards

  Congratulations to the 14 Penn Manor students who won awards for outstanding writing in the 2014-2015 Lancaster County Scholastic Writing Awards competition, sponsored by Lancaster Public Library. Another student, Veronica Cazillo, a high school freshman, won first-place for an editorial in the Newspaper in Education writing competition. Penn Manor students won 16 Scholastic Awards, including seven…

• Patriotic painting earns PM student $10,000

  

  Penn Manor High School student Alessandra Levato has earned a $10,000 scholarship by winning the 2013-14 Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest. Her oil painting, “To Be An American,” placed first among the more than 4,000 entries submitted in the nationwide contest, sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The painting depicts a line…

• Penn Manor senior has book published

  Penn Manor High School senior Toby Holsinger can add a new title to her name – published author. The Mountville teenager wrote “This I Know … Devotions for Teens,” a book of 90 daily devotions that was recently published by Cross River Media and is available on Amazon.com. Each short story in the book covers…