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• Penn Manor TSA students are tops in PA

  Penn Manor has four new state champions — when it comes to solving technology problems. Teams of two students each from the high school and Manor Middle School placed first in the Technology Problem Solving competition at the recent state conference of the Technology Student Association (TSA). The first-place finishes by Zach Schucker and Ray…

• High School earns second straight Silver Medal

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School faculty, staff, students and administration for earning a Silver Medal from U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year! The high school had the highest ranking of any school in Lancaster County for 2016 and was No. 35 in the state and No. 1,308 in the nation. The…

• Final HS Master Plan presentation April 21

  April 21 is the public’s final opportunity to attend a presentation on the Penn Manor High School Master Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium and will follow the same format and present the same basic information as the four earlier master plan presentations. A question-and-answer period with school district officials and…

• Collin Rineer earns national art award

  Kudos to Penn Manor High School senior Collin Rineer, who earned a Gold Medal in the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. His drawing, “Broken Keys,” won in the Drawing and Illustration category. Collin created the charcoal piece as a birthday gift for a friend who plays the piano. He entered the drawing in Scholastics — his…

• Penn Manor bowlers are state champs!

  The Penn Manor boys’ bowling team this weekend did something no other boys’ team in Lancaster County has ever done — won the state bowling championship! The boys defeated Conrad Weiser, two games to zero (210-165 and 167-125), to win the title Saturday after besting 10 other teams to reach the finals at North Versailles…

• PM Ed Foundation awards $46,000 in grants

  Manor Middle School teacher Chris Telesco wanted to take several male students on field trips as part of a program called Fusion that matches boys from broken homes with teacher mentors for after-school activities. But the cost of bus transportation and admission fees was prohibitive. Enter the Penn Manor Education Foundation, which awarded Telesco a…

• Old friend honors former Hambright principal

  Bob Stoner surprised an old friend Wednesday, when he presented him with two unusual gifts in honor of his long ties to the former Hambright Elementary School. Stoner gave Gerald Sheckart a brick from the original Hambright building, constructed in 1936, along with a framed photo of the school that appeared in Life magazine 80…

• PM’s 1:1 program earns national honor

  Penn Manor School District has been named a “District of Distinction” by a national magazine for its open source 1:1 Student Laptop Program. The school district is one of 30 honored this month by District Administration magazine under a program that recognizes school districts that implement innovative ideas that yield measurable benefits. At Penn Manor, every student in…

• Marticville takes students on virtual reality field trips

  Marticville Middle School students got to experience the future of learning when they participated in the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program Feb. 19. The school served as a beta test site for Google Expeditions, a new product that enables teachers to take their classes on virtual field trips to discover Mars, the Roman ruins, the stratosphere,…

• PM students earn Scholastic Writing Awards

  Congratulations to the 13 Penn Manor students who won awards for outstanding writing in the 2015-2016 Lancaster County Scholastic Writing Awards competition, sponsored by Lancaster Public Library. Penn Manor students won 14 Scholastic Awards, including three Gold Keys, the top honor, and six Silver Keys. Four Penn Manor students also earned writing awards in the Newspaper…