 The Kentucky Department of Education has named Floyd County as one of the six districts chosen to be in the third cohort of the local laboratories of learning. L3s will begin their work by observing cohorts one and two for the remainder of the school year. The main reasons we were chosen to be part of the local laboratories of learning here at the Floyd County School of Innovation is that is our desire to serve the community through a local coalition around needs that we have for our students to help our students be more innovative and creative and really partnering with all of our stakeholders in the community around the needs that we have. Floyd County Schools hosts 28 pathways to students and the School of Innovation hosts six programs that branch into 13 pathways. Our students come here and they work in engineering or computer science. They work in healthcare, law enforcement, the ag pathway or heavy equipment and they get hands-on experience with the curriculum. We have community partners that are paired up with each pathway and they also get that real-life application to it as well. We are Pikeville Medical Center and we are an amazing place to work. Our heroes of all types work here. All who deserve great rewards so while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors we are taking care of them with top-tier benefits, higher pay rates and great sign-on bonuses so join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today! Incredible opportunities await at PMCjobs.org. In the fall, Floyd County School of Innovation will launch their own coalition and begin engaging in local empathy interviews, defining issues in their school and developing a learning model prototype. So it's called a prototype but it really is identifying a problem in this area and for us we think the problem is that we're trying to address the whole child for every single child in our community and so that's our prototype is how can we address that child and make sure that when they leave us as a senior that they have exactly what they need whether it's going to be to a career or to a college or whatever it is. Registration for the Floyd County School of Innovation is currently open. For more information on the school and to register go to their website at fcsi.floyed.kyschools.us. For Mountaintop News, I'm Breonna Robinson.