P-H-M Education Foundation

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Thank you to Schmidt and Associates for their support as a patron sponsor of this fall's Homecoming event! Our event sponsors help us make this an amazing event for our community and raise funds to support excellence in education in all 15 PHM schools!

Visit https://www.phmef.org/content/uploads/2024/06/Homecoming-Sponsorship-Form-2024-final.pdf to learn how your business can get involved!

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Big thanks to Midland Engineering for their support as a patron sponsor of this fall's Homecoming event! Your generosity is helping us create an unforgettable experience for everyone involved and make a lasting impact in PHM schools.

Wishing all the dads in our district a wonderful day!

Donations to the PHM Education Foundation go to support grants for PHM schools like this cardio drumming project for Madison Elementary.

Grant recipient Stephanie Newcomer shared:
I saw amazing outcomes in the short time we had the sets. Almost every student in grades three through five improved their cardiovascular fitness from the beginning of the year to the end. The staff also thoroughly enjoyed using the cardio equipment as a way to exercise and decompress after school. I offered after school classes two days a week for a month. It was a way to relax and bond together as a team

Thank you to Drive & Shine for committing to being our presenting sponsor for Homecoming 2024! Community support like this makes an impact in all 15 P-H-M schools by helping fund our grants and district wide programs!

We extend our sincere gratitude to our outgoing Board President, Mary Stines. Mary has graciously dedicated countless hours to leading the board. Her dedication and enthusiasm for supporting our mission is unmatched and she is so appreciated!

Congratulations to our new Board President Jill Lebbin and President Elect Ginee Wozniak Ames. We are confident these ladies will do a wonderful job serving on our executive committee alongside Treasurer Adam Allsop and Secretary Jim Tuesley. We are so grateful for strong leadership in our organization.

We want to extend a special congratulations to the children of our board members who graduated last night!

Ella Smoker, daughter of board member Jennifer Smoker and former PHMEF intern Ella is one of Penn High School’s valedictorians for the class of 2024. She is graduating with a 4.32 gpa and is also a member of the National Honor Society. Ella was the president of DECA, an international business club at Penn for two years while the club doubled in size. She is an active member of the Granger Student Ministries small group leadership and worship teams and loves being a GSM camp counselor. Ella founded the Short Hair Because We Care club during her time at Grissom and continued to grow the club while at Penn. Ella plans to attend the University of Notre Dame in the fall studying Finance & Strategic Management at the Medoza College of Business.

Gretchen Moore. Daughter of board member Kris Moore, Gretchen is headed to Indiana University to study Special Education. Spent her time at Penn High School on the Competition Poms Team (5 years, captain Junior and Senior year), Peer Leader, National Honor's Society, Freshman Mentor, and more. Graduating Manga Cum Laude with honors diploma. She is grateful for all the opportunities PHM has provided her!

Kolin Weidner, son of board member Kelly Weidner. Kolin is in the Early College Program at Penn and graduated from Ivy Tech Community College with a General Studies Associate and Technical Certificate, Indiana College Core. Kolin is graduating Cum Laude and will be receiving his academic honors diploma. Kolin will attend IUSB in the fall for computer science.

Jude Roach, son of PHMEF school board representative Clare Roach, is heading off to LSU's Ogden Honor's College to study natural resource management. An avid outdoorsman, Jude helped start Penn's fishing club. He also played violin for Penn's symphonic orchestra, ran Unified Track, and was a starting center back for the Kingmen boys soccer team.

Libby Eshowsky, daughter of board member Lissa Eshowsky, will be attending Indiana University in Bloomington this fall to pursue a degree in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at the Kelley School of Business. While at Penn High School, Libby was involved with Unified Track, the Peer Leadership program, Freshman Mentoring for 2 years, the DECA club for 4 years, and was a 4-year Varsity athlete on the girls soccer team. Senior year, she was named one of the captains of the soccer team and received the Kingsmen award. Libby served on the executive board for DECA for 2 years, won 2nd in state for the Independent Business Plan category senior year, and qualified this spring to compete at the International Career Development Conference in Anaheim, California. At the Senior Recognition ceremony, she received the General Business and Entrepreneurship award and was a recipient of the Principal's Citizenship and Service Award. Libby will graduate Magna Cum Laude with academic honors.

Patrick Ames, son of board member Ginee Ames is a graduate of Northpoint Elementary, Discovery Middle School, and now Purdue Polytechnic High School in South Bend. He has always known he wanted to grow up and work with technology. He loved his internship in the Information Technology Department last summer at Notre Dame and can’t wait to pursue a career in IT. Patrick will be furthering his education with IT certifications and wants to be a System Administrator.

Congratulations to these outstanding grads and best wishes for their very bright futures!

As the school year draws to a close we want to thank our board members whose terms are ending this summer. They have been a vital part of our organization's success and we are so thankful for the time and energy and support they have given over many years of service! They have tirelessly worked to support excellence in education and we are grateful for their dedication!

Congratulations to our May bus driver of the month and a huge thank you to our friends at Culver’s for sponsoring this program to recognize some exceptional drivers this year!

We LOVE supporting excellence in education by recognizing amazing teachers!! Reading about the impact PHM teachers have on their students is awesome! It was exciting having a few of the students in the classroom who wrote letters to nominate Mrs Roy when we went in to surprise her. Congratulations to Mrs Roy and thank you to the Lippert Family for underwriting this award!

What a great night! We are proud to support excellence in education by celebrating the incredible staff and teachers in PHM

Congratulations to another round of amazing impact award winners. The foundation is thrilled to sponsor these awards for some very deserving educators

We are proud to sponsor the awards for these IMPACTful teachers. Congratulations to the recipients of the Impact Awards and thank you for all you do to support excellence in education in PHM schools!

The PHM Education Foundation is proud to support the Teacher of the Year awards. The elementary teacher of the year and secondary teacher of the year each receive a $1000 classroom grant from the Foundation in recognition of this amazing achievement. Congratulations to Jeremy Starkweather and Nichol Mondy!

Thank you to everyone who supports excellence in education and our annual Superintendent’s Breakfast. This morning was a wonderful celebration of the 2023-24 school year

What better way to support excellence than this recognition of an out of this world former teacher! Thank you to Dr & Mrs Thacker for their generosity and thank you to Mr Klinger for all he did to bring the PHM DVT & Planetarium to PHM schools

We are excited to unveil the new signage at todays naming rights celebration

Thank you Dussel’s Farm Market for the beautiful flower arrangements for tomorrow’s Superintendent’s Breakfast

We are counting down the days to the Superintendent's Breakfast. A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors, their generosity helps us fund grants and programs for all 15 P-H-M schools!

PHMEF appreciates all of the amazing teachers and staff in our district! Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

On May 14th at 1pm we will be unveiling the new signage for the Arthur M Klinger Planetarium and DVT, the planetarium will be open following the unveiling for a celebration of the event and to honor Mr Klinger’s legacy