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Penn State McKeesport and Penn State New Kensington hosted 385 youth ages 10 to 16 for a five-week National Youth Sports Program. Dr. Carol A. Rush, campus executive officer at Penn State New Kensington, and Dr. Curtiss Porter, campus executive officer at Penn State McKeesport, collaborated on grant proposals to fund the program. The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sponsor the program. The structured academic and sports program is free to economically disadvantaged boys and girls. The program, which ran from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., is designed to teach young people concepts of respect, responsibility, caring and community pride. Academic programs emphasize hands-on instruction, while sports programs focus on improving athletic skills. Guest speakers, teachers and coaches from the region provided instruction for the program. Program administrators were Robert Leck, director of athletics at Penn State McKeesport, and Dr. Jan Orris, director of adult and continuing education at Penn State New Kensington. Two hundred children participated in the program at the McKeesport campus, and 185 participated at the New Kensington campus. Penn State McKeesport offered academic programs in alcohol and drug abuse education, health, nutrition and career counseling and sports programs in baseball, softball, swimming, soccer, sand volleyball, volleyball, tennis, kickball and flag football. Penn State New Kensington offered academic programs in math, science, computers, nutrition and physical fitness, as well as flag football, soccer, volleyball, swimming and basketball. In 2000, nearly 70,000 youth participated in the program at 192 higher education institutions throughout the United States. An outreach program of Penn State McKeesport Continuing Education and Penn State New Kensington Continuing Education | |||||
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