North Penn High School - Honors

Honors

The school hosted the 75th Anniversary National Association of Student Councils (NASC) national conference from June 24–28, 2006, where students from 49 states, as well as Australia, Canada, and Puerto Rico attended.

North Penn High School and Knapp Elementary School both celebrated their 50th anniversaries in the year of 2005.

North Penn High School's International Thespian troupe was the first high school to start a Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) high school chapter in the world. BC/EFA is a charity in which Broadway actors, and now high schools, can raise money which gets sent to this charity to fight AIDS. North Penn has an annual gala to raise money in addition to auctioning off many pieces of Broadway memorabilia.

In the 2001-2002 school year, the high school participated in the Y100 Foods Drive for the first time, and won 1st place. As a prize, Ok Go! played a free, private concert for them. In the 2006-2007 school year, the high school participated in the WMMR Preston and Steve Food Drive and donated over 2 tons of food. They won 1st place, and as a result, were awarded an OK Go concert.

In 2006, The North Penn Marching Knights won the USSBA Grand National Championship at the Naval Academy, and they also won their 10th consecutive state championship.

In 2007, North Penn won the Q102 Bras the Boulevard contest. The contest aimed to collect donations and bras for the Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation. The prize was a free dance hosted by the morning show Booker in the Morning.

On Friday, April 18, 2008, former President Bill Clinton visited North Penn High School. Due to the school's large community and student body, it was chosen as one of the places that a representative of the Clinton campaign would speak.