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Star players

For kids all over Kentucky, the dream is to someday stand on the floor at Rupp Arena and shoot that game winning shot, hearing the crowd go wild and having a championship-winning player pat you on the back.

By |2017-02-27T11:55:51-05:00February 28, 2017|

Three-man show

Students at Fayette County's School for Creative and Performing Arts at Bluegrass prepare to put on Mozart's one-act opera, "Bastien und Bastienne," which Mozart wrote when he was only 12 years old.

By |2018-07-31T14:43:29-04:00February 9, 2017|

Science you can smell

As the students walk into Jacob Ball's lab at the Locust Trace AgriScience Center in Lexington, they're met with tables of food – old food.

By |2023-01-04T13:45:28-05:00January 24, 2017|

Students write the law at Kentucky Youth Assembly

While the 2017 session of the Kentucky General Assembly may have just started, state policymakers already have some new suggestions in their inboxes thanks to students from the Kentucky YMCA Youth Assembly.

By |2017-01-09T16:26:09-05:00January 5, 2017|

Madison County’s Hour of Code

Madison County was recognized recently for being the first recipient of the Computer Science Education Incentive Award from AdvanceKentucky and Time Warner Cable. The award promotes the growth and awareness of computer science education in school districts throughout Kentucky.

By |2016-12-15T09:31:26-05:00December 15, 2016|

A scary good time

The senior class at Lynn Camp High School (Knox County) puts on a haunted trail every year to raise money for the senior class trip.

By |2018-10-05T14:11:30-04:00October 25, 2016|

Meeting a world changer

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi visited the Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elementary (Fayette County) recently, challenging the students to be kind.

By |2016-10-10T09:12:45-04:00October 11, 2016|

A new kind of library

By Bobby Ellis bobby.ellis@education.ky.gov There aren’t many libraries that can claim to have a giant wall of computer monitors, a green screen, an aquaponics lab and a slide going from the second to first floor, but the one at Eminence Independent certainly can.  […]

By |2016-09-27T12:14:39-04:00September 27, 2016|

Have Mercy, Take the Reins!

Students at Julius Marks Elementary (Fayette County) got the chance to meet Mercy, a rescued Belgian draft horse, as part of a new service learning program designed to show students the job opportunities in Kentucky's horse industry.

By |2018-08-21T14:17:17-04:00September 13, 2016|
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