All About Shamrocks, Leprechauns, and St. Patrick’s Day
Kevin McNulty Do you ever wonder why there are so many leprechauns on Notre Dame University merchandise? Or why leprechauns in general are associated with St. Patrick’s Day? And what is up…
School Closing Down
On March 12th, 2020, at 4:28 PM, Governor Eric J. Holcomb announced that all schools in the state are to be closed for 20 days effective immediately. This is in…
Choir ISSMA 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwmZQukCZ60 On Saturday, February 8, Penn High School hosted the ISSMA choir competition. Schools from all over the area competed as groups and as soloists to try and receive a…
Mental Illness Stigma: is it real, or all in our heads?
Madisyn Renbarger From a young age, we're told to express our emotions and that it's okay not to be okay. But when we get older and we're experiencing severe emotions which may…
E-sports Notification
The E-sports team has been playing matches against other schools for a few weeks. However, in the most recent Kingsmen Nation, there was a section saying that the E-sports teams…
Japanese Club Holds Tea Ceremony
The Japanese Tea Ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha, powdered green tea. In Japanese, it is…
Black history month
February is the month to celebrate Black History. Black History Month was established in 1926 in the United States when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study…
Orchestra ISSMA Solo And Ensemble
On February 1st, 2020, many students from the Penn Orchestras and Penn Bands participated in the Indiana State School Music Association Solo and Ensemble event held at Northwood High School.…
Speech team is off to sectionals after valparaiso tournament
https://youtu.be/ASeTE-hRA5E The speech team went to Valparaiso high school on Saturday, February 22nd. A lot of fun was had there and a few Penn representatives broke into the final rounds.…
How is your English class?
Tyler McGruder The average grading load for a Sophomore English teacher is roughly 8,000 pages of student composition that have to be graded each year. And not only do these papers need…