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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 of Negro Life and History announced the second week of …
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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. Students that competed the highest level, Group 1 performers, will …
Read moreThe 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. Charles Johnson in International Ex-temp and Olivia Schultz in Dramatic interpretation …
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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 to be assigned a grade, but teachers are also expected …
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Presidents’ Day is the third Monday of every February and this year it falls on the 17th. Presidents’ Day is a day to celebrate and remember presidents. As it is a public holiday, school will be closed on this day.…
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On the topic of Valentine’s Day, how many of us have wondered where this day came from? Since many of our students do not have anything special reserved for this day, it is now time to discuss the origins of …
Read moreThe Coronavirus outbreak has started on December 2019, and has continued until now. Currently, the situation has not gotten any better. The rate of infected people has risen quickly, making it so that now mainland China has at least 17000 …
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There is a new type of virus that has come from China, this virus is called 2019-nCoV. It’s unclear how easily it spreads from person to person because the symptoms act the same as with a normal fever but it …
Read moreAttention students of Penn High school, there is a worldwide issue that has been going around in our school. This issue is vaping. Thousands of kids are doing it, ranging from middle schoolers to high schoolers. Vaping is very bad …
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Penn FTC robotics will soon be partaking in their first qualification tournament at Griffith High School on January 18th. The tournament will go on for the entire day, where teams compete in this year’s FTC game, Skystone.
