News Room
WE ARE PROUD TO PERIODICALLY HIGHLIGHT OUR ORGANIZATIONAL ACCOLADES AND THE INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR STUDENTS.
2025 - Associated Press: AmeriCorps Cuts Leave People Who Serve and Community Organizations Scrambling for Alternatives
2025 - Mountain Messenger: AmeriCorps Cuts at High Rocks Jeopardize Local Organization
2025 - WBOY: DOGE Cuts AmeriCorps Programs Across West Virginia
2025 - NY Times: States Sue After AmeriCorps Cuts Leave Communities Scrambling
2025 - The Real WV: State Nonprofits Brace for AmeriCorps Cuts
2025 - WDTV: DOGE Cuts Shut Down Educational Programs in West Virginia
2025 - WVNS: Federal Cuts to AmeriCorps Impact Rural West Virginians
2025 - Politico: DOGE Hits Trump Country
2025 - WTAP: DOGE Cutting Over 200 AmeriCorps Positions in West Virginia
2025 - WCHSTV Eyewitness News: West Virginia's High Rocks Program Hit Hard by AmeriCorps Cuts; 70 Members Lose Positions
2025 - WDTV: High Rocks Educational Program Searching for Answers After AmeriCorps Cuts
2025 - WDTV: High Rocks Still Searching for Answers
2025 - WV Metro News: Some AmeriCorps Operations in West Virginia Hit by DOGE Cuts
2024 - Pocahontas Times: RoadKill Cook-Off Attracts Huge Crowd
2024 - The Washington Post: Everything's Fair Game at the Roadkill Cook-Off in Marlinton
2023 – The Inter-Mountain: High Rocks Recognized for Revitalizing Communities
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 – First2 Network Spotlight: Sarah Riley
2019 – Pocahontas Times: PCHS National Honor Society Receives Words of Wisdom
2019 – Register-Herald: The Hub and Tech Express Open New Vistas
2019 – Register-Herald: Grand Opening Slated for The Hub's New Home
2019 – WVVA: New Computer Repair Business Staffs Teens While Teaching Business Skills
2018 – Haverford College: Renae Hall Interviewed by Claudia Rivera
2018 – WV Public Broadcasting: Women Find Freedom and Confidence Outdoors Together
2018 – Register-Herald: Students Learn Life Lessons Taught at the U.S. Border
2018 – Pocahontas Times: The Camp Experience
2017 – Pocahontas Times: 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 – Greenbrier Valley Quarterly: High Rocks
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