 With forward pay from Appalachian Wireless, you'll avoid contracts and credit checks while taking advantage of some awesome perks like unlimited talk text and three gigs of data for just $44.99 or with five gigs for a mere $59.99. Forward pay, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative hosted its third annual Appalachian Renaissance Initiative Promising Practices Summit today in Pikeville. Teachers and leaders from 17 Eastern Kentucky districts traveled to the East Kentucky Expo Center to present a promise of practice that they will implement in their classroom throughout the year. Over 300 teachers apply annually for the KVAC Race to the Top Grant and 101 Received Funding. Those who were awarded the grant present their problem, how their practice will fix the problem and if it worked or not during today's summit. Other educators come to listen to these presentations to learn what they can and hopefully be able to implement some of those practices in their classroom. Students were also able to participate in the ARI Summit. Since I'm on Student Senate I am in a way running it so I help facilitate and I also introduce some speakers on the stage earlier and since I'm also here for the hackathon then I'm answering questions about that and just trying to spread what an impact has had on me. And we're also here to make connections to help like make our product that we created during the hackathon a real thing. Organizers say the summit was a great way to network and make connections with other educators throughout the region. It's a wonderful thing to see the teachers have that collaboration and to share ideas even at lunch. The relationships that are building from this. The summit was streamed live throughout the day on theholler.org. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.