Upcoming NPSD Events:

NPHS Class of 2010 Holds Car Wash

and Spring Plant Sale Fundraiser

The North Penn High School Class of 2010 is holding a car wash and spring plant sale fundraiser to help defray the cost of the senior class trip being held next year. There will be a large selection of popular flowers for the home and yard. The car wash and plant sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, 2009 in the C-pod parking lot of North Penn High School. This event is open to the entire North Penn community and will be held rain or shine. Please use the coupon below if there is a student you wish to donate your proceeds to. For more information, please contact NPHS Class of 2010 faculty advisor Amy Young at younga@npenn.org.

North Penn Gallery Art Show

The North Penn Gallery Art Show opens to the public on Wednesday, May 20 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and reopens on Thursday, May 21 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Art work created by students from K-12 will be on display. The North Penn Gallery Art Show is an impressive show that features a multitude of media from painting to photography to sculpture and more. Students will also be on hand to demonstrate their artistic skills, such as drawing and throwing on the potter’s wheel. Additionally, the Gallery includes the Senior Show which features art work created by seniors who have taken two or more art classes throughout their high school years; it includes a reception for these seniors, their parents and guests on Wednesday evening from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the art pod of North Penn High School.

The art/visual communication teachers from the district will host a silent auction of hand-designed birdhouses. Teachers donated their time and creativity to design these items, which will be auctioned to benefit the Senior Art Scholarship Fund. In past years the teachers auctioned hand-designed watering cans, trays, decorative boxes and aprons that have funded generous scholarships to graduating students continuing in the arts. The auction will open Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. and will close Thursday at 9:00 p.m. As part of the fundraiser for the art scholarship, there will be face painting and Gallery at North Penn t-shirts will be sold for $10 each. The t-shirts feature an open-frame design in which you can decorate your own shirt. A table with fabric markers will be at the show for you to decorate your shirt if you wish.

Don’t miss this wonderful experience. It is located in the K-pod concourse, gym and art pod of North Penn High School, 1340 Valley Forge Road, Lansdale, PA 19446. For further information or questions please contact Joanne Harris at 215-368-9800, ext. 456 or harrisjm@npenn.org.

North Penn High School Key Club Holds Annual

Memorial Day event at pENNDALE

The NPHS Key Club will once again hold a Memorial Day Event at Penndale Middle School on Monday, May 25 at 11:15 a.m. in honor of fallen NPSD graduates and students. The NPHS JROTC will be helping with the flags and other activities. A member of the band will be doing taps, poems will be read and names of fallen North Penn graduates/students will be read aloud.

Fourth Grade Gifted Students Participate

in Environmental Education Day

Fourth grade gifted students across the district will participate in Environmental Education Day for the fourth consecutive year. Students and staff members will spend the day at Fisher’s Park on Thursday, May 28, 2009.  The students will begin their day under the pavilion decorating burlap bags to hold the materials they will receive throughout the day.  Next, students will walk to three different stations in the park to learn about owls, bugs and birds of prey.  There will be hands-on activities and live animals for the students to see. The events of the day have been carefully planned to be both enjoyable and scientific. 

This environmental experience has been offered to the students for the past four years thanks to the generosity of the North Penn Association for Gifted Education (NPAGE). NPAGE raises money to support NPSD students through the annual “Super Saturday” event. NPAGE and NPSD are excited by the idea of sharing love and concern for the environment with NPSD fourth graders.

NPHS Engineering Academy Holds Exciting

Nanotechnology presentation

North Penn High School seniors involved in the school’s Engineering Academy invites the community to attend a presentation on nanotechnology on Wednesday, June 3^rd at 7 p.m. in the audion of North Penn High School. Their presentation will discuss the fundamental principles of nanotechnology, including its history and societal impacts.  Examples of products utilizing nanotechnology today and possible future applications will also be presented.  The students will then outline and present the research they performed in class and at Drexel University.  There will be a question and answer session, demonstrations of the polymer preparation and electrospinning processes and examples of the fibers that the eight research teams created throughout this school year.

For further information and to R.S.V.P., please visit the following website: www.thefutureisnear.org. For additional questions or comments, please contact Mike Boyer at boyerma@npenn.org.