 On Thursday, February 1st, the Appalachian Center for the Arts opened registration for their theater camp programs. Ages 5-12 can sign up for Rainbow Fish the Musical, and ages 12-18 can sign up for SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical and Tech Camp. No theater experience is required, and registration forms can be found at theapparts.org. The camps are something that we look forward to every year. Education is such a big part of our programming here at the app. And this year we are doing the SpongeBob musical, and that's for 12-18 year olds. And then we're doing Rainbow Fish the Musical for 5-12 year olds. And then we also have a Tech Camp available for 12-18 year olds. Yeah, it's a great opportunity for people who have never set foot on stage or into a theater to get involved. And it's also a great opportunity to polish your skills if you have, if you've been in a number of plays with us or other organizations around our community. We'd love to have you come in and enjoy and come and hang out with us for about 5 weeks. The app will not turn someone away due to financial hardship. Instead, they offer scholarships and work to provide educational benefits through performing arts. Theater classes in general, the theater classes that we teach, they teach communication skills, they teach self-confidence, but they also, you know, we go over techniques. We go over staging techniques, singing techniques. We do choreography, things like that. And so these are all taught by trained professionals. And it's in a fun environment. So the app will never turn a student away who is interested in arts programming due to financial hardship. So as long as we have spots available, we do have a scholarship fund. We've had some very generous donors that have helped create the scholarship fund. So all you have to do is shoot me an email, Shannon, at theapparts.org. And we can work with you to make sure that we can get your child involved in our arts programming. Reporting from Mountaintop News, I'm Nick Colum.