 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. On Thursday, April 27th, the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the National Civics Bee at the Mountain Arts Center. Twenty students from all over Kentucky will be gathering for a competition that will use civics as a problem-solving device. The top three winners will receive cash prizes and a trophy for their efforts. So we've got 20 students all across Eastern Kentucky, several here from our part of the region, but all across those 24 counties. We're going to give away some gas cards from DoubleQuick to make sure that getting to and from the competition is not an issue. We've got medals and cash prizes. Everyone gets a medal, top three students get a trophy, top three students get cash prizes, and it's going to be a great event. So all this is optional. All of it is extracurricular and beyond the scope of their normal day-to-day. We had to submit an essay about a problem in the community that civics can solve and how they may be able to use civics to solve those problems. So we brought in almost 200 essays and talking about challenges in the community. And these six, seven eighth grade students are bringing ideas to us on how we can solve those problems using civics. The competition will begin at 11 a.m. on the Mountain Art Center stage. After three rounds of multiple choice and critical thinking competition, the winners will be selected by a board of judges. So Thursday, the day of the competition, live in person on the stage of Mountain Art Center, we've got three rounds for the competition. First two rounds are multiple choice. We have tablets on stage, donated, sponsored by Appalachian Wireless. They're going through in time, real time, answering questions multiple choice. First two rounds, the questions get harder, questions have more points, and then we'll take a break. We're going to feed the kids, take care of mother here, and then the final round, the top five students through the first two rounds of competition actually go through their essays. And the judges will have live judges there talking to them actually go through and get questions for their individual essays about the problems in the community and how they're using civics to solve those. And from there, we get the top three winners. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colum.