Tag: The Pennington School
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Pennington gymnast awarded scholarship
Julia Peters of Pennington is the recipient of the 2020 Plum Cares Academic Scholarship (PCAS). This one-time scholarship, totaling $5,000, will support her academic studies at George Washington University in the fall, where she will pursue physics and compete on the varsity gymnastics team. Peters is a graduate of The Pennington School and finished as…
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Pennington School junior secures top honors in 2020 Mercer Science and Engineering Fair
Pennington School junior Haichuan “Jack” Wang has earned first place honors at the 2020 Mercer Science and Engineering Fair (MSEF) by creating a design for an aircraft detector of foreign debris on runways. He won the honors in the senior division of the general engineering section in the MSEF. Wang would have qualified for the…
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Pennington School students to provide iPads to children in Africa
Pennington School students are helping children in Africa by providing educational resources through refurbished iPads. The iPads are pre-loaded with education apps, books, and other learning tools that have been tested and selected by Pennington School students, according to school officials. This project began during the 2018-19 school year and has been aided recently by…
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Pennington School seniors are inducted into the Cum Laude Society
Ten Pennington School seniors achieved one of the school’s highest honors when they were inducted into the Cum Laude Society. The society is the school’s chapter of the international Cum Laude Society organization and recognizes student’s academic achievements. “It is a tremendous accomplishment because all of these students have taken very rigiorus courses and have…
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Pennington School adds 16 new faculty members
The Pennington School features many new faces for the 2019-20 school year. School officials announced that 16 new faculty members have jpined the staff at the private school. Several of the new faculty members are covering education topics that include mathematics, the sciences, English and language. “Our hiring season begins in earnest in January. In…
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Pennington School students place high in regional tournament
The Pennington School’s Odyssey of the Mind teams placed first and third in the Coastal Plains Regional Tournament, which tested the students problem solving skills. Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college, according to the New Jersey Odyssey of the Mind…
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Hopewell Valley Arts Council returns the ArtConnect Forum
The Hopewell Valley Arts Council will organize its second ArtConnect Forum on March 21 for artists and residents. The event will go from 6-9 p.m. and take place at the Pennington School on Delaware Avenue. The Welsey Forum at the Yen Humanities Building will serve as the venue. “What we are trying to do in…
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Three seniors at the Pennington School win awards at art exhibition
Three Pennington School senior students have placed in first and second, respectively, at the 2019 Phillips’ Mill Youth Art Exhibition. The Youth Art Exhibition (YAE) is an annual contest that began in 2014. According to the Phillips’ Mill Community Association, the Youth Art Exhibition was created to build on the success of the Phillips’ Mill…
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HomeFront families and Pennington School gather for annual holiday party
There were smiles all around as HomeFront families were treated to a holiday party and lots of cheer by students and staff at the Pennington School last weekend. For few hours on Dec. 15, the families, many of them homeless or barely earning enough money to make ends meet, could share in the holiday spirit…
