 Summer has arrived and Appalachian Wireless has a great sell on the world's hottest smart phone from now to the end of the month. You can get the amazing iPhone 13 for more than half off because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Over a hundred graduating seniors from Pikeville High School walked the halls of Pikeville Elementary one last time as kids saluted their journey into adulthood. Thursday, Mountain Top spoke with students and principal Brandon Blackburn about this year's class of 2022. Just means the world to us because we work so hard to make sure that they're prepared for the next steps and next chapters in their lives. We want them to reach their goals. We want them to help find their goals and what they want to be and so seeing them literally days away from taking that first step into the next chapters of their lives just makes it all worthwhile and we're excited to be there even beyond them being graduates here at Pikeville High School. We'll always be there for them and we're looking forward to them just being just important parts of our society. Afterward, seniors spoke with Mountain Top about their time at Pikeville and what it means to walk the halls of the elementary school one last time. It was honestly kind of heartbreaking. We got to see all of our old teachers and even some teachers that have retired came back. I have a little brother here and just seeing that all the younger kids look up to us it touched my heart and I'm so excited to see what these kids do and it was it was really memorable and brought back a lot of memories. It was great going through the halls seeing all the kids smile and having a good time looking up where they'll be in a few years. I hope because I know some kids they dread school and I hope seeing us walk through the halls for captain gowns make kids strive to go to school and want to be like us one day. And as students made their way down the halls one last time Blackburn shared words of encouragement to the class of 2022. If anything, I just want to say that everything that they have learned over these last few years especially with COVID and the challenges that they have been faced with is that they can do anything and that there's always people there ready to help them. There's always shoulders to lean on and to the class of 2022 we are so proud of you and if anything else you've shown that you can do it and we're there for you to make it happen. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Corjol.