 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. The East Kentucky Science Center and Varia Planetarium has received a grant from GSK Science in the Summer to host a physics-centered summer camp. The camp is open to children in second through sixth grade and is completely free to attend. I'm really excited to be able to bring that every year has a different theme. This year is physics. So there's three to five hours worth of activities and they focus on different types of physics careers. So it's not quite what you might think when I say you're going to be a physicist and you might be picturing just being in a laboratory, pulling lovers and things. There's actually so many different kinds of physicist jobs. One of the activities is creating materials for a new ski suit to keep someone warm and investigating accidents, car accidents and how that might have worked. So it's really fun hands-on, very inquiry-based, very student-based, letting them explore what it would be like to have a career based in physics. The program is targeted for rural areas to try and bridge the gap between the classroom and pursuing a science-based career. One of the reasons I'm so excited and honored to be able to bring this grant to eastern Kentucky is rural areas like this are kind of isolated. It might be hard to realize that there are careers in STEM and specifically in some of these fields, but there's careers available. They're here. But there might be a gap in realizing how to get there. Or there might even be a gap of, oh, I like this. The Science Center will also be offering training for other educators interested in hosting the camp. So the way it will work is Susan and I have been trained in how to implement these activities. We will be able to find a location that can host these summer camp activities. We can train educators at that location and compensate them as well and provide them with the kit of materials needed for all the activities, and they will be able to implement whether it's part of their existing summer camp curriculum or just a one-off that can do this on their own. They will be able to implement these activities anytime from now through August. So whenever it works for them, whatever timing works for them, they will be able to do the summer camp. We provide them with the materials, the training, the support, all of that. It's a really exciting way to kind of satellite out to these far regions that might not be able to get here to us. The camp will be held the first week of July. For more information, go to East Kentucky Science Center and vary a planetarium on Facebook. Reporting for Mountaintop News, I'm Brianna Robinson.