The Penn Baseball Team defeated Northridge, 11-10, on Monday, May 28, to win the Class 4-A Sectional crown.

A Photo Gallery is posted below.

Since November, Penn Building and Trades students have been hammering away on their 49^th house.

The house on 414 Champery Drive in Osceola’s Newbury Pointe subdivision is now complete and is on the market!

In the video below, Building & Trades Teacher Les Crooks takes us through the completed house …

Interested and want to see the house for yourself? Come check it out at the Open House on Friday, June 1, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

The asking price for the house is $245,000. The proceeds from the house sale goes to the Building Trades Corporation, which is a separate entity from Penn High School.

For more background information on Penn’s Building and Trades program and details on this year’s build, click here.

The Food Service Department of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation is participating in the Summer Food Service Program for Summer 2018.

FREE MEALS will be available to children 18 years of age and under, or persons more than 18 who are determined by a state or local public education agency to be mentally or physically disabled and who participate in a public or non-profit private school program established for the mentally or physically disabled. 

The program will operate Monday through Friday. All sites will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, 2018.

Please click here for more information and a complete list of sites and dates.

On Friday, May 25, 869 Kingsmen graduated from Penn High School in Commencement Ceremonies at Purcell Pavilion on the University of Notre Dame campus. 

All 17 valedictorians spoke during the ceremony. They spoke on a joint theme passing along the lessons they learned the past four years and their defining moments at Penn High School.

Click to read the amazing accomplishments of Penn’s Class of 2018.

Click to watch Class of 2018 Excellence Happens Here student profiles on Penn-Harris-Madison’s YouTube channel.

Please click to see the photo gallery below of Commencement.

PLEASE NOTE REGARDING PHOTOGRAPHY:
These photographs in the photo gallery below were taken by the P-H-M District Communications Office. They are just intended to capture a snapshot of the excitement and mood of the evening, NOT ALL STUDENTS WILL BE PHOTOGRAPHED. 

To download high resolution jpg files from the photo gallery below, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function. We are happy to provide this service to you free of charge.

*HR Imaging photographed all graduates at the ceremony. HR Imaging will contact parents soon after the ceremony with viewing and purchasing options — you'll receive login information to view images securely online at http://shop.hrimaging.com. 

On Friday, May 25, 869 students graduated from Penn High School in Commencement Ceremonies at Purcell Pavilion on the University of Notre Dame campus. Click to view the Class of 2018 Commencement photo gallery .

Penn’s Class of 2018 features 17 Valedictorians: Nicholas Casetti, Madeline Cullison, Margaret Finnessy, Kendra Fuelling, Kristine Hocker, Morgan Jankowski, Fezaan Kazi, Veronica Kirgios, Sybil Kurian, Kendra Laidig, Erin Ludwig, Bryan Mai, Christopher Mazurek, Matthew Rach, Maheera Siddique, Mackenzie Wood and Renee Yaseen. Click to read more about these students and see where they’ll be attending college/university. The Valedictorians have an average GPA of 4.4 on a scale of 4.0!

Lauren Frank and David Li earned Salutatorian status. The average GPA of the salutatorians is 4.3! Click to read more about this year’s Salutatorians.

This year’s class also has six National Merit Scholarship Finalists: Nicholas Casetti, Margaret Finnessy, Kristine Hocker, Shane Hullinger, Kendra Laidig, and Renee Yaseen. 

Nicholas Casetti also earned Indiana Academic All-State Honors.

Of the 869 member graduating class:

• 304 are graduating with High Honors
• 446 – Academic Honors
• 105 – Technical Honors
   

Another highlight of this year’s graduating class is that it includes 82 students of the first cohort of the Early College Academy. The Academy was started four years ago to offer students, who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to attend college, to earn dual college credit in the supportive environment of Penn High School. These students have been taking classes at Penn and also earning college credit through courses at Ivy Tech Community College. 

• 37 earned Associate of General Studies degrees
• 31 earned Technical Certificates (earning between 32-62 credits, the equivalent of one year of college or more)
• 14 earned at least 15 college credits

To date, members of this year’s graduating class continuing their academic career in higher education have received just over $8 million in scholarships!

Many students will be attending in-state colleges and universities:

• Purdue University – 86
• Indiana University South Bend – 84
• Indiana University Bloomington – 65
• Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis– 38
• Ball State University – 25
• Butler University – 11
• University of Notre Dame – 6
• University of Indianapolis – 4

A few Kingsmen will also be venturing a little farther from home attending across the country, for example: Oregon State University, University of Southern California, University of Utah, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Mississippi, Florida State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

We take pride in providing a wide array of academics and career learning opportunities to appeal to a wide base of student interests supporting our students for college and career readiness.

Fourteen students have enlisted in the military and armed services to honorably serve our country.

Several members of the Class of 2018 will also pursuing Electrician School, Apprenticeship for Photography, Apprenticeship for Carpentry, and finishing Cosmetology Programs.

Click to read more about the Penn’s Class of 2018 and the Student Awards handed out at Senior Recognition Night held last week (Tuesday, May 15, 2018). 

Click to watch Class of 2018 Excellence Happens Here student profiles on Penn-Harris-Madison’s YouTube channel.

High School Graduation is a major milestone in one’s life—a stepping stone and catalyst for the next phase of life. However, sometimes it’s taken for granted … but not for Patrick Cichoracki.

Tonight, Patrick, an Exceptional Education Academy student, will be among Penn’s 869 member Class of 2018 graduating at tonight’s Commencement (May 25, 2018) at the University of Notre Dame. Patrick will graduate with a Core 40 diploma. This is quite an accomplishment for Patrick, his family and his Penn High School family and friends! Patrick was diagnosed with Autism when he was two-years-old—doctors telling his parents he’d never speak and recommended they put him in respite care.

But Patrick and his parents never gave up … Patrick enrolled in PreK at Elsie Rogers Elementary School and began using an adult speaking device—which he mastered in just two days! He eventually started speaking at the age of seven. Patrick has always loved technology, taking apart the family's VCRs and putting them back together again. By elementary school, Patrick quickly learned keyboarding and developed his fine motor skills by doing all of his “writing” homework on a computer. At Schmucker Middle School and later at Penn, he took computer classes. Tonight he’s 18 and graduating on time with the rest of his classmates his age with a Core 40 Diploma! He loves coding and will enroll in Ivy Tech Community College next fall and plans to major in Technology.

Patrick is inspiration to us all, watch the video below to see how he brightens the hallways of Penn High School every day …

Click to watch the other Class of 2018 Excellence Happens Here student profiles on Penn-Harris-Madison’s YouTube channel.

All year long, Penn junior and senior Building & Trades students have been building a home in Osceola. On Tuesday (May 22, 2018), the students were honored for their hard work and dedication on this longstanding project-based learning project. Click to see the photo gallery below of the home under construction all year.

Several seniors were recognized for their achievements and hard work over the course of this school year.

Award Winners:

• The Ross Anderson MVP Award: Tanner Shaw
• $1000 scholarship (renewable for four years): Connor Bretlinger, Luciano Rulli, Alan Kreig and Chase Fenner

In addition to the standout awards, every student received a Golden Hammer award. This award recognizes that students made it through the course successfully.

Penn High School has offered students this terrific hands-on experience for 49 years through the Building and Trades class!

The year-long course is offered to juniors and seniors and gives students the unique experience to build a house from the ground up. This year’s class has 17 students; and four seniors are in their second year in the course.

This year’s house is in the Newbury Pointe subdivision in Osceola at 414 Champery Drive. The asking price for the 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom, 1685 sq. ft. home is  $245,000. The house will be completely finished at the end of May and ready for an Open House scheduled for Friday, June 1, from 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Click here for more information on the Building & Trades program and to watch a video on Phase 1. Click here for a video on Phase 2.  

Please see the photo gallery below of the home under construction. To download a high resolution jpg file from the photo gallery, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function.
 

We’re in the final stretch … Commencement is just two days, May 25 at the University of Notre Dame. 

In these weeks leading up to Graduation we’ve been profiling Class of 2018 graduating seniors from each of Penn’s Academies.

On Friday, The Early College Academy will graduate its first cohort this year; and Abigail Neal will be among Penn’s first group of students to earn an Associate's Degree while in high school! About 80 Early College students will graduate with dual credit earnings and about half of those will have earned their Associate’s Degree. Abigail is taking that degree to college and pursue her bachelor's degree in Engineering at IUPUI, so she will start college as a junior with a AGS degree in General Studies … pretty amazing!

Click to watch the video below …
 

Click to watch the other Class of 2018 Excellence Happens Here student profiles on Penn-Harris-Madison’s YouTube channel.

Three Penn student teams took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the finals of the LimeBike of South Bend Innovation Challenge today (Tuesday, May 22, 2018).

1st Place Winning Idea (Adjustable Bike Stand) & Team Members:

Austin Waech shown above during the presentation. Team members not pictured: Michael Wujcik, Zachary Craft and Moon Jay. The team was also made up of Mishawaka students: Morgan Van Damme, Izzy Fielding and CJ Fisher.

2nd Place Winning Idea (Work Layout) & Team Members:

Penn students: Hunter Lederer, Kayra Nugroho and Anthony Vaccaro

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3rd Place Winning Idea (The LimeStand) & Team Members:

Penn students: Keshaun Lee, Joseph Shockey, Brandon Scarberry and Peter Yang

For the Innovation Challenge, students had to create a solution or discover an innovation that will help LimeBike improve its service. Students had to design and build prototypes of their pitches to LimeBike and then presented them to panels of local experts and teachers.

At stake was a paid summer internship hosted by The Sibley Center to expand on and implement designs from the competition. A for-profit company that receives no tax dollars, LimeBike is a bike-sharing program that seeks to promote a cleaner environment through riding bicycles.

The LimeBike Challenge is one of the relevant learning opportunities that distinguishes Penn’s STEM Academy, which is one of 33 schools in Indiana that is STEM-certified by the State of Indiana.

The Penn Girls Tennis Team beat Jimtown, 5-0, on Senior Night.

Please see the photo gallery below. To download a high resolution jpg file from the photo gallery, just simply click the “DOWNLOAD” button on the bottom right-hand corner of the photo while viewing it in the Photo Gallery function.