News Room
WE ARE PROUD TO PERIODICALLY HIGHLIGHT OUR ORGANIZATIONAL ACCOLADES AND THE INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR STUDENTS.
- 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 – 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