 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reeve Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reeve at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. Mountain Engineering Day, or Mountain E Day for short, was held for the first time Saturday to engage youth in engineering activities for potential career paths. The biggest thing is the different types of engineering that are available right here in their hometown. What we hear a lot of is brain drain that our kids, if they want to be an engineer they go away to school and then they don't come home because they don't always see that engineering is right here around them every day. So our goal was to try to not only encourage them to do what they love but also to do what they love and the place that they love and to come home and celebrate with us. With activities spread across three locations, kids and young adults could explore the Appalachian Wireless Arena, U-Pike and Downtown's BitSource to try out their skill. So we want to expose them as much as we can to low tech as well as high tech. Here today we brought everything from squishy circuits to where they learn how circuitry works all the way to some of our robots that they can actually learn to code. Those robots are on different levels. We have puzzle coding for the younger kids all the way up to block coding and python coding for the older kids. Well, we started out with very simple hand tools because we want to teach route engineering skills but then they go all the way up to advanced computer technology. This is a wireless remote control vehicle. We do drones, we do wireless robots that involve programming and things like that. As part of the three location event, BitSource held a Q&A with Kentucky native and NASA engineer Dr. Tracy Prater who spoke about the life and challenges of being an engineer. Aria Ferguson, a NASA enthusiast, hopes to be an astrophysicist when she grows up. So I've always been obsessed with space and I first wanted to be an astronaut but then I wanted to stay on land. So then I found out about astrophysicists and stuff so I wanted to be one. And while kids were eager to learn more about engineering, director of digital literacy Tracy Tackett says she's happy adults see the value in engineering. I'm thrilled that parents see the value of an educational event. This isn't just a carnival. It is fun, hands-on learning and something that kids can leave today thinking, oh, engineering is fun and it's something that they might want to think more about. For Mountain Top News, I'm Jewel Courgell.