Kentucky edition | breaking ground for impact center | season 2 | episode 99

Something new is on the way to one of the largest school districts in Kentucky. Warren County public schools broke ground last night on its new impact Center for Leadership and Innovation.

It'll serve as a hub for students to collaborate using project based learning and advanced technology. Officials say the center will work with industry and the public and offer training

for jobs in engineering, health care and computer science. To be able to utilize project based learning and to really provide the students with a challenge and allow them the freedom to try

to figure out how to solve that challenge. That's where our leaders are born, right? It's through that ability to solve a problem, to communicate solutions, and to help people

move forward and that's exactly what's going to happen here, which is a completely new way of developing leadership and helping the next generation prepare for the jobs of the

future. Because, as you know well, they are coming here to this region of Kentucky. We met with entrepreneurs and tech officials from not just across the country, but across the globe. And

technology is changing every day. And one of the things that we want to do with the center is position ourselves where we're providing the latest and most updated technology for our

students to ensure that they not only build their their skills and innovation and entrepreneurship and the thinking and critical need and so forth, But then also the leadership in. The

impact center will serve students in grades seven through 12. It sits on the side of the former Cumberland Trace Elementary School in Bowling Green, which moved to a new building in 2021.