A large percentage of the students are Latino, primarily Puerto Rican. Sites Students participate in summer and afterschool programs at two Allentown Schools, Mosser Elementary School and Roosevelt Elementary School, as well as at community agencies such as Mosser Village Family Center. Although writing is the common thread throughout the program, teachers are free to design curriculum relating to any field of study. Programs offered have focused on a wide variety of subjects including geography and other cultures, business writing, healthy lifestyles, poetry, and story writing. Activities engage the students creative abilities through hands-on learning.
Many activities take place in the computer lab.
Field trips, including attendance at plays and visits to businesses, hospitals and museums, broaden the children s horizons and suggest career options. At an informal celebration on the final day of each summer session, students display their work and their computer skills to parents. Faculty Faculty teaching in the Y.E.P. 2000 program are Writing Fellows in the Lehigh Valley Writing Institute. Whenever possible, teachers in the afterschool program are drawn from the faculty of the students home school. During the summer sessions, Visiting Scholars from Puerto Rican Universities who have participated in the Lehigh Valley Writing Institute return to Penn State Lehigh Valley to teach in the Y.E.P. Program.