On Saturday, March 26, Penn’s “Short Hair Because We Care Club” will be holding a special hair donation event. This event helps many kids fighting hair loss from different illnesses. The hair donated will be going to an organization known as “Children with Hair Loss” (Click to follow them on Facebook). This organization works to provide children with wigs around the world.

The hair professionals from Salon Nouveau will be cutting hair for adults and students from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in Penn’s Cafeteria on Saturday, March 26. Just enter Door F, which is behind the school (and opposite TCU Freed Football Field).

There is no cost to participate, it’s FREE! And the “Short Hair Because We Care Club” will take care of sending in the hair donation to “Children with Hair Loss.”

Follow us on Instagram @shbwc_phs for information about the day of the event. Please be aware that in order to participate in this donation (adult or student), you must have at least 8 inches of hair to donate. Hair that is chemically treated, color, perm or straightened is OK to donate! 

Any person younger than the age of 18 must have an adult present to participate in this event. Fill out the form below and return it to Miss Darr in Room 259 by end of school 3/25/22, or DM our Instagram account, @shbwc_phs, to reserve yourself a spot!

Click here for the permission slip.

Thank you to the sponsors of the event: Dayton Freight and Smoker Craft Boats. 

Penn High School’s Symphonic Orchestra, under the direction of Anne Tschetter, will compete at the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) National Orchestra Festival in Atlanta, Ga., on Friday, March 18. The ASTA National Convention is the orchestra music educators conference.  All events and performances will be at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

A Photo Gallery of practice for the National Orchestra Festival is posted below.

Penn is schedule to perform at 5 p.m. on Friday, March 18.

Penn students will also be visiting the Georgia Aquarium and Coca-Cola World, and a celebratory dinner will be at Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta.

The application process included a recorded video and two recommendations from professional music educators.

Penn’s Symphonic Orchestra was recommended by Mark Wood of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Dr. Orcenith Smith of DePauw University.

Penn students will be performing:

• Mendelssohn  Sinfonia No. 7 in d minor, I. Allegro
• Whitacre, October
• Rutter, Suite for Strings

   I. A-Roving
   II. I have a bonnet trimmed in blue
   III. O waly waly
   IV.  Dashing away

• Balmages, Lyric Metal
• Britten, Simple Symphony, IV. Frolicsome Finale

We want to thank the P-H-M Education Foundation and ALL of our local business and community partners for making our inaugural job fair a success!

Today EVERY senior had a chance to talk to local employers that offered everything from Summer Jobs to Apprenticeships and other Career Opportunities.

Local employers were thrilled to be able to educate our students about what they have to offer. Often times High School seniors might not be aware of all of the opportunities that are available to them.

This was an opportunity to bring students and employers together.

In addition to the job aspect, there were also financial literacy breakout sessions for the students to attend. Take a look!

Community Connections Fair

Saturday, March 26, 2022

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Schmucker Middle School

56405 Bittersweet Rd., Mishawaka

The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation’s ENL Services’ is sponsoring the District’s FREE Community Connections Fair!

Come check out what the Mishawaka, South Bend, and Elkhart communities have to offer to your families!

P-H-M is inviting area businesses who want to participate in the Community Connections Fair to sign up. Click here to request a table at the event. 

The Fair will also include cultural performances from P-H-M students and families. Families wishing to sign up to perform, click here.

Bilingual interpreters will be on hand at the event to assist those families who need it.

Come out and enjoy the many cultural performances and student work that will be on display representing countries from all over the world! 

Please join us!

For more information, please contact:

Nicole Parker
P-H-M Elementary ENL Coordinator
(574) 259-2486, Ext. 53261
nparker@phm.k12.in.us

Penn High School principal Sean Galiher honored Seniors and Juniors who were named Academic Achievement Award winners for the 2021-2022 school year.

Students earn the Academic Achievement Award for maintaining a grade-point average of 3.5 or better over four or six semesters, without receiving a D or an F. 

Take a look at the video below!

Click here for a list of the Seniors and Juniors who were named Academic Achievement Award winners.

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky, The Addams family is coming to Penn High School!

The Penn Fine Arts and Communications Academy is presenting, “The Addams Family, A New Musical”, at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5. On Sunday, March 6^th there will be a 3 p.m. performance.

The showings will be held within the Center for Performing Arts (enter through Door C).

$10 presale tickets go on sale Monday, February 21^st  and may be purchased at Penn Theater’s ticket store TicketTracker.com.  Tickets are $12 at the door.

Click here to purchase tickets for the online streaming version of “The Addams Family, A New Musical”.

The plot of “The Addams Family A New Musical” revolves around America’s favorite macabre family “The Addams”. 

In its typical creepy and comical, mysterious and macabre fashion, the ghoulish Addams family is holed up at their Central Park, graveyard home for an annual gathering of all family members, living dead, and undecided, to celebrate what it is to be an Addams.

However, the family encounters an unforeseen obstacle when Wednesday Addams decides to introduce her “normal” boyfriend Lucas and his awkwardly normal parents to her family!

From a deeper point of view, The “Addams Family A New Musical” tells the story of love and friendship through adversity, with a comical and macabre yet poignant spin.

Penn High School Principal Sean Galiher announced that 10 students from Penn have been named National Merit Scholarship Finalists.

Hala Ansari, Manaal Buchh, Marin Chester, Alexander Du, Salem Fitwi, Arthur Haines, Evan Nayee, Luca Nijim, Jeremiah Roach and Matthew Zhang are among 15,000 Finalists nationwide who will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit Scholarships of $2,500.

A student’s academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received are considered in selecting Finalists

Finalists must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

Three Penn students have been selected to receive full scholarships to Purdue University!

Jake Huemmer, Johnnay Johnson, and Nikita Amin all applied and were chosen as part of the Posse Scholars program earning them full tuition and leadership scholarships from Posse partner colleges and universities. Click here to learn more about the Posse Scholarship Program.

Jake, Johnnay, and Nikita were selected from 1,300 nominations to become a recipient of the Posse Scholarship. As a part of Purdue University Posse, they become a member of a larger network of over 10,000 Posse Scholars and Alumni nationwide.

Later this month the students begin pre-collegiate Training (PCT). This is a seven-month program in which the Posse Scholars will train in leadership, academic success, team building, and cross-cultural communication. The sessions run from January through July to help prepare the students for when they attend Purdue Fall 2022.

The Posse model is based on concept that if a group of students go off to college they would “back each other up.” This idea became the impetus for a program that has identified, recruited and trained more than 10,000 students setting them up for academic success and building on their leadership potential.

Vanderbilt University was the first school to partner with Posse awarding scholarships to five students. Posse Scholars have awarded more than $1.6 billion in scholarships from 64 partner institutions, including Purdue University.

Congratulations to Jake, Johnnay, and Nikita on being selected to this prestigious program!

Snowball has been rescheduled for Sunday, Feb. 20 (7:30-11:00 p.m.). The dance will be in the Penn High School Main Arena.

Tickets will go on sale on Sunday, Feb. 6. at noon.

Click here to purchase tickets (the link will not be live until noon, Sunday, Feb. 6)

There will be no in-person sales of tickets. Tickets are limited to two (2) per student. Masks are required. A maximum of 1,200 tickets will be sold.

Click here for complete information.

Penn High School students excelled in the Scholastic Art Awards competition.

Click here for a list of Scholastic Art Award winners from Penn.

Scholastic Art Awards is the largest and longest running competition for junior and high school students in the country. It has gotten more selective and more prestigious over the years and the students that are have work selected to be entered, even if not chosen for an award, should be extremely proud of doing such high quality work. There are three levels of awards: Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention. Gold Key winners compete at the national level. Recognition at the national level usually brings with it many scholarship offers as well as tremendous honors.

Art of three levels will be displayed in an impressive public exhibition in the Warner Gallery at the South Bend Museum of Art in the Century Center from Saturday, Feb. 5, until Saturday, March 12. This year’s reception for artists, families, and teachers will take place on Saturday, Feb. 5, from 12-5 p.m., as an open house featuring artist demonstrations, music, and more. Please join us at the South Bend Museum of Art to celebrate the exceptional work awarded in the 2022 Scholastic Art Awards. Entry is free and open to the public.

The Award Ceremony will take place virtually again this year on Sunday, Feb. 12, and will premiere at 11 a.m. on youtube, www.southbendart.org, and the South Bend Museum of Art’s social media pages. You are able to download your certificate from the https://artandwriting.org/ or wait until your teacher picks up your work after the exhibition.

The Scholastic exhibit displays some of the finest artwork you will see from junior and high school students and very worth the trip to go to the Century Center/ SBMA. Winning artwork by Penn students will be added to the Penn Kingsmen Art Gallery for display on Monday, March 14.