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Penn Dance/Pom Team auditions set for April 22-25

Penn High School Pom/Dance Teams

Tryouts are open to current 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th graders. If you are going to be a senior for the 2024-2025 season, you must make Varsity or higher. Seniors cannot be on a Junior Varsity team.

Tryout Dates & Information

Tryout Schedule

Monday, April 22: 6:30-8:30 p.m. – Main Arena at Penn
Tuesday, April 23: 6:30-8:30 p.m. – Main Arena at Penn
Wednesday, April 24: 6:30-9:30 p.m. – Main Arena at Penn (Competition Tryouts)
Thursday, April 25: 6:30-9:30 p.m. – Main Arena at Penn (JV and Varsity Tryouts)

Results Announcement

Each candidate will be given a unique number. Results will be posted using unique numbers via Instagram.

Competition team results: Thursday morning
JV and Varsity results: Friday morning

What Coaches Look For

The Poms coaches will be looking for the following qualities during tryouts:

Dance ability
Showmanship
Technical skills (JV/Varsity: Turns, toe touches, and leaps)

Competition Team Requirements

Required Technical Skills

Technical skills will be an extremely important aspect of tryouts. Candidates must be able to perform:

Triple and quad pirouette
Toe touches/pop up toe touch
Firebird
Turning disc
Calypso
Side leap
Saut de chat
Fouettés/ala seconde turns
Aerials (front and side)
Switch to tilt jump; switch to arabesque; switch to second
Preferred skills: front walkovers

Coaching Staff

Cindi Minegar & Alison Minegar: Competition Coach (Season runs August-March)
Lauren Jacobs: Varsity Coach (Season runs September-February)
Leah Olsen: JV Coach (Season runs September-February)

Physicals & Registration

Penn Physicals

Physicals for the 2024-2025 school year must be dated after May 1, 2024, and will be due on Register My Athlete by the first day of Boot Camp (July 29, 2024), or when the Athletic Office opens registrations.

Register My Athlete

Upon results of tryouts, you must register on Register My Athlete (once athletic office has it set up—we will notify all team members when it is available) and get all appropriate paperwork signed and submitted on that website. We do not collect paperwork.

Information on how to setup a Register My Athlete account

Boot Camp (Mandatory)

Boot Camp Schedule
JV & Varsity	Competition Team
Monday, July 29, 2024: 5:00-9:00 p.m.	Monday, July 29, 2024: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024: 5:00-9:00 p.m.	Tuesday, July 30, 2024: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024: 5:00-9:00 p.m.	Wednesday, July 31, 2024: 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 1, 2024: 5:00-8:00 p.m.	Thursday, August 1, 2024: 1:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

*Students will be responsible for their own sack lunches Monday – Wednesday

Athletic Guidelines & Financial Obligations

Boot Camp Fees

Boot Camp will be run by guest choreographers along with coaches.

JV and Varsity: $110.00 per person
Competition: $175.00 per person

Camp money is due on the first day, July 29, 2024.

Competition Team Additional Fees

$145 on the first day of actual season rehearsal, Monday, August 5, 2024.

This money will go towards team t-shirt, hair bow, shoes, tights, rhinestones, and earrings. We will order as a group.

JV and Varsity New Members

New members will need:

Tan tights
Tan jazz shoes
Accessories

We will order as a group.

Team Fundraiser

Elementary Camp

All teams involved

Dates: June 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Report time is 12:30 p.m.)
What to Wear: Black tank tops, shorts, and tennis shoes. Hair should be in a ponytail.

Competition team will have additional fundraisers for their season.

Questions?

Any questions, please contact:

Cindi Minegar: cminegar@phm.k12.in.us
Alison Minegar: aminegar@phm.k12.in.us

Parent/Student Signature Page (Required)

*This form must be handed into the coaches on the first day of tryouts, or student will NOT be allowed to participate.

Exploring Financial Realities: Reality Store

Today our 8th-grade students delved into the world of personal finance at Reality Store. Students were assigned careers, salaries, families, and even pets. They were then tasked with the challenge of budgeting for everyday expenses like housing, groceries, and entertainment.

students talks to parent volunteer

Parent volunteers led sessions on various career fields, offering insights and guidance. Students learned firsthand about professions, career paths, and the importance of education in achieving financial stability.

parent volunteers discuss careers

Reality Store wasn't just about numbers; it was about practical skills. Students honed critical thinking and problem-solving abilities while managing budgets and making informed financial decisions.

A big thank you to our parent volunteers whose dedication made Reality Store a success. Their support empowered students to navigate the complexities of personal finance with confidence and competence.

parent volunteers

Reality Store served as a reminder that financial literacy is crucial for success beyond the classroom. Equipped with practical skills, our students are better prepared to face the challenges of the real world and build a secure future.

Take a look at more photos below!

April 8 Solar Eclipse Information

While the Indianapolis area and south will experience 100% totality for the solar eclipse occurring on Monday, April 8, 2024, the St. Joseph County area will only experience 96%.

The Michiana area will start experiencing darkness at 1:53 p.m., lasting until 4:23 p.m., with 96% totality occurring at 3:09 p.m. and lasting just over 4 minutes.

Click to watch the video below and hear from P-H-M Digital Video Theater and Planetarium Director Melinda O’Malley as she shows us what to expect in our area.

Click here to see a Indiana Department of Natural Resources map of Indiana regions that will experience varying degrees of darkness. Click here to also get more background information on the Great American Eclipse website.

Because the partial eclipse time is occurring around elementary school dismissal times and based on the recommendations of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and the IDOE, P-H-M will have an eLearning day on April 8. Click here for more information on that decision.

Thanks to Old National Bank and P-H-M Education Foundation, all students will have a pair of eclipse glasses to use at home when watching the eclipse with their families. The glasses will be sent home the week of March 25 before P-H-M’s Spring Break.

DVT Director Mrs. O’Malley demonstrates how the eclipse glasses should be used.

Mrs. Manspeaker wins PHM Impact Award

All teachers make an impact on their students. At P-H-M we honor those teachers whose students have improved academically with the P-H-M Impact Award. This semester, Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker is visiting schools and surprising teachers whose students had significant First Semester growth.

Today Dr. Thacker, Assistant Superintendent Dr. Heather Short, Director of Literacy Ryan Towner, and the Executive Director of the P-H-M Education Foundation Jennifer Turnbloom stopped by Discovery Middle School to surprise Math teacher Coleen Manspeaker. Click here to see the full photo gallery below.

Mrs. Manspeaker’s 8^th grade students had P-H-M’s highest growth in math proficiency–growing 59%!

The Impact Awards were first handed out in September 2023 to teachers with the most significant overall student growth during the 2022-2023 school year.

Thank you to the P-H-M Education Foundation for covering the cost of the awards for purchasing the beautiful crystal awards given to the teacher award recipients.

Penn Musical, “The Music Man,” March 1-3

2024 Penn Football Cheer Tryouts

Football Cheerleading Tryouts will be Monday, March 25; Tuesday, March 26; and Wednesday, March 27 at Penn High School.

Those interested please email Coach Szweda for more information at rszweda@phm.k12.in.us.

School Library Lists

In accordance to Indiana Code 20-26-5.5 going into effect January 1, 2024 School Districts must publish and make available library materials, along with establishing a procedure for families to submit a request for removal of materials.

Click here to access Alexandria, our school library catalog.

Penn-Harris-Madison’s Policy 9130 (Public Complaints and Concerns) has been in place since 2005. The updated policy was adopted and approved at the December 11, 2023 Board Meeting to be in compliance IC 20-26-5.5.

As stated in Board Policy 9130, parents are welcome to provide feedback related to curriculum materials. The information submitted on this form will be directed to the building principal.

Click here to fill out and submit the Material Review Request form.

Project Lead the Way Utilizing VEX Exp Robots in Creative Ways

Seventh grade Project Lead the Way students turned an outside game into a fun inside game, for robots!

Vex Robots were coded with sensors so that when they are hit by the other team they freeze. If their own team hits the same sensor they unfreeze.

In addition to coding the sensors, the students also coded the robot’s screen to change color when hit so spectators can easily identify what robots are frozen and which are not.

Take a look at the photos below!

Discovery Places 2nd in State Spell Bowl

With 69 out of 72 words spelled correctly, Discovery Middle School finished in second place at the Indiana State Spelling competition!

Special thanks to coach Susan Berger, an Educational Assistant at Discovery.

One Book, One School Scavenger Hunt

In an effort to encourage reading and literacy, Discovery Middle School is once again doing “One Book, One School” where every student in the school reads the same book.

This year, to build excitement and continuity throughout the school, we held a scavenger hunt. Students started in their classrooms by reading this year’s book “Amari and the Night Brothers,” written by B.B. Alston.

Amari and the Night Brothers

Students also had a work sheet with clues, after they got their first clue by reading the book, the students would then go to different stations around the school to find more clues that all related to the book.

scavenger hunt

Excitement was in the air as students went from station to station, finding the next clue to help their team finish first.

Take a look at some photos below!