News Room
WE ARE PROUD TO PERIODICALLY HIGHLIGHT OUR ORGANIZATIONAL ACCOLADES AND THE INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR STUDENTS.
2023 – WOAY – Oak Hill Middle School kicks off Farm-to-School month (video)
2023 – Mountain Messenger – “Graves to attend Marshall as Yeager Scholar”
2023 – Mountain Messenger – High Rocks Academy opens 27th season of summer camps for girls
2022 – Generation West Virginia – "Generation West Virginia and Partners to Receive $15 Million from U.S. Dept. of Commerce to Launch Workforce Development Initiative"
2022 – Charleston Gazette-Mail – "Tax credit brightens solar future in WV"
2022 – WV Department of Agriculture (video) – “Growing opportunity through agriculture”
2021 – West Virginia Daily News – "High Rocks Receives Grant From ARC"
2020 – Network Spotlight: Sarah Riley, First2 Network
2019 – PCHS National Honor Society receives words of wisdom
2019 – The Hub and Tech Express open new vistas
2019 – Grand opening slated for The Hub's new home
2019 – New computer repair business staffs teens while teaching business skills
2018 – Haverford College – Renae Hall interviewed by Claudia Rivera
2018 – Women Find Freedom and Confidence Outdoors Together
2018 – Students learn life lessons taught at the U.S. border
2018 – The camp experience
2017 – West Viriginia’s Promise , The Alliance for Youth – Red Wagon Award recipient
2016 – Greenbrier Valley Quarterly – “The Hub”
2015 – The Register-Herald – “The Hub celebrates grand opening”
2015 – Allegheny Mountain Radio – “High Rocks’ Has Grand Opening of Teen Center ‘The Hub’ in Lewisburg”
2015 – ArtWorks West Virginia – “Art Helps High Rocks Girls Reach New Heights”
2015 – Pocahontas Times – “Riley receives Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award”
2015 – Mountain Messenger – “College trips with High Rocks”
2015 – Pocahontas Times – “Educators become students at STEM training”
2015 – Mountain Messenger – “It wouldn’t happen without women”
2014 – Allegheny Mountain Radio – “High Rocks is gearing up for a busy summer; still accepting 8th-12th grade registrants for Camp Steele in July”
2014 – Appalachian Voices – “Building New Opportunities for Women in Rural Appalachia”
2014 – Pocahontas Times – “High Rocks Academy for Girls – More than a summer camp”
2014 – Allegheny Mountain Radio – “Grow Appalachia offers summer position”
2014 – ASA Annual Conference – “Place-Based Experiential Learning and the High Rocks Teaching Model”
2013 – Pocahontas Times – “High Rocks music students present benefit concert”
2012 – activerain – “High Rocks Teams Up with Almost Heaven Habitat for Humanity to Build Their “Sister” a Home”
2011 – Allegheny Mountain Radio – “Pocahontas County Commission Commits Twenty-five Thousand Dollars To High Rocks Academy”
2011 – Haverford College – “The High Rocks Connection”
2011 – Journal of Appalachian Studies – Keynote Address
2010 – Allegheny Mountain Radio – “Meike Schleiff, A VISTA Volunteer With High Rocks Academy, Is Coordinating Relief Support For Haiti”
2009 – Abbie Betinis – Be Like The Bird
2009 – Allegheny Mountain Radio – “High Rocks Opens Up Dogwood Studio In Greenbrier County”
2009 – Pocahontas Times – “Riley honored for leadership in the mountains”
2008 – Mountain Messenger – “Greenbrier Valley Women’s Fund awards grant to High Rocks”
2005 – Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche Engelhardt – Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies
2005 – Haverford College – “Haverford alumnus and students help teenage girls build skills and confidence at West Virginia camp”
2003 – The Jenco Foundation Fund – 2003 Award Recipients
2002 – WVU Today – “WVU director, Greenbrier County businesswoman to lead statewide study group on WV women”
1990 – Milken Educator Awards