Awards, Honors, and Major Features

2016
Andrea Kolb, Program Director Elaine Maddon Curry, Kayla Hack, and Carla Zembal-Saul collaborated on a research project highlighting the use of virtual tutoring. Virtual tutoring started as an idea and has now become a crucial element in our After School Scholars program.

2016
The Hazleton Integration Project was included in the book Undocumented Fears. Longazel writes, "One of the clearest examples of this multicultural approach is HIP's emphasis on the potential of children to overcome social conflict… Children in contrast will 'engage in activities together, the barriers of unfamiliarity will crumble and friendships will form.'" Joe Maddon added, " When the kids come [to the community center], the parents will [also] come and hopefully all that superficial nonsense will go away. It starts with the kids."

2015
The Hazleton One Community center was a part of research that was presented at a conference in Chicago. Dr. Megan Hopkins, Andrea Kolb, along with Bob and Elaine Curry, presented the poster outlining the research. The research examined the area’s dramatic increase in immigrant population and how educators adapted to the increase in multicultural students.

2014
The Hazleton Oral History Project is a joint effort between people taking adult ESL classes at the Hazleton One Community Center through the Concerned Parents of the Hazleton Area’s ESL program and first-year rhetoric and composition students at Penn State Hazleton. Over the course of several weeks, adult ESL learners and Penn State Hazleton students met to co-author stories about adult ESL learners coming to America and living in Hazleton.