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Penn High School Principal Rachel Fry announced that 20 students have been selected to represent the Class of 2026 as Valedictorians and two students have been named Salutatorians. Penn High School’s Class of 2025 Commencement Ceremony will be held at 7 p.m., Monday, June 8, 2026, at Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Doors open for ...

Penn's National Honor Society is hosting a Blood Drive for students and staff only on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Sign up to donate blood here. ***Keep in mind that when signing up on the website, it says that the date is a black day, but it is actually a gold day. Please note: - There are limited spots available for each time, so if you ...

Penn High School AP Drawing students Ashton Hanover and Lucia Lozar have earned two of the five Northwest Indiana/Southwest Michigan Region's American Vision Nominee awards through the Scholastic Art competition. Those are the top awards, selected from among all the Gold Key works in the area, which are selected from over 4,000 entries. Hanover, a senior at Penn, also won a Notre Dame Award. Both ...

Penn High School students participated at the State Science Fair hosted by Indiana University-Indianapolis on Saturday, March 28, 2026. Presentations included: Eleanor Niemier 9th grade: Cisplatin Effects on Gene Expression in Lung and Colon Cancer Viosa Hernandez 9th grade: How do iPhones, iPads and WiFi affect the development of living organisms? A case study of Raphanus Sativus and Lepidium Sativum Ethan Doane 12th Grade: Fighting ...

Penn Science Olympiad earned its first Top Ten finishes in two events at the Science Olympiad State competition at Northridge High School. • Iniya Christopher & Alishba Syeda — 6th in Disease Detectives • Joanna Lin & Emily Pearson — 8th in Botany Penn's season included a third-place finish at the Regional ...