On July 7th-25th, 2008, Dr. Li Zeng, Associate Professor of Chinese, led a three-week Chinese language summer camp for high school students in Louisville, Kentucky. The project, a collaboration among the Crane House, the University of Louisville, and Jefferson County Public Schools, was fully funded by a federal grant, the STARTALK Initiative (part of the National Security Initiatives for Critical Need Languages).  As the Lead Teacher of the project, Dr. Zeng developed the curriculum which was approved by the grant management, conducted a professional training for bilingual associate instructors, and supervised ancoordinated the daily classroom activities, cultural assemblies, and so on throughout the camp. Reflecting the success of the project, about 25
high school students have been qualified for the STARTALK scholarships
and will receive college credits in Chinese from the University of
Louisville.