Geoffrey Cottingham has lunch with the Maverick Mentors at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014
Fifth-grade student Jake Childress creates his name floating in the sky in Minecraft based of instructions a classmate wrote for him. Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 7, 2015
Library media specialist Stacie Kegley looks over the football field 5th-grade student Michaela Ehrhardt is creating in Minecraft using instructions her partner Mackenzie Schneeman wrote.  Photo by Amy Wallot, Jan. 7, 2015
Mann Elementary Ambassadors, including Luke Weaver, Isabel Schmitt and Emily Fox, all 5th-grade students, are raising money for a buddy bench for their playground. The bench will be a place where a student can sit, alerting other students that they are looking for someone to play with. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014
Second-grade teacher Lisa Willoughby discusses using the content to predict what will happen in a book that her students are reading at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014
Mann Elementary School (Boone County) Principal Connie Crigger talks with students outside on the playground. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014
Maverick Mentor Joseph Zabik, center, reads with Ian McIntosh and Autumn Bailey at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014
Jake Lunnemann and Maverick Mentors 5th-grade students Canada Johngakiem and Celeste Hesener review colors while playing with a toy ship at Mann Elementary School (Boone County). Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014
Brandon Wu, a 2nd-grade student at Mann Elementary School (Boone County), listens to teacher Lisa Willoughby discuss The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop. Willoughby said her students always look forward to reading the book. Photo by Amy Wallot, May 1, 2014
Seniors Madison Funke, Emily Graham and Jordan True monitor the breathing rate of a gold fish in changing water temperature. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014
Stephens Elementary School (Boone County) Principal James Detwiler, center, talks with Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe in the library at Longbranch Elementary School during instructional rounds, which involves faculty and staff members from other schools in the district visiting and observing instruction at different schools. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013
Seniors Alexis Switzer and Caitlin Robinson check the temperature of their experiment. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014
Fifth-grade students greet Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe as they walk back to class at Longbranch Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013
Fourth-grade students Kaitlyn Richardson and Max Adams talk with Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe about their mathematics lesson in Ellen Steele’s class at Longbranch Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013
Sophomore Grace Osterbrock and junior Airelle McStoots tweet out their experiment results during Tricia Shelton's anatomy class at Boone County High School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014
Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe observes Meredith Larison\'s 3rd-grade class at Longbranch Elementary School.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013
Sophomore Amanda Nelson examines her fish during an experiment learning how body systems interact with each other. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014
First-grade students in Jack Steele’s art class talk with Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe about their art projects at Longbranch Elementary School. Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013
Tricia Shelton gives sophomores Donovan Sullivan and Karlie Roth a reading assignment after they finish an experiment during anatomy class at Boone County High School.They were to use the two pieces of evidence, the experiment and the article, to come to a conclusion about how body systems interact. Photo by Amy Wallot, Sept. 17, 2014
Boone County Superintendent Randy Poe.Photo by Amy Wallot, Feb. 7, 2013

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