Thirty-six high school students from across Southern and Eastern Kentucky arrived at The Center for Rural Development in Somerset on June 27 for the first class of the 2010 Rogers Scholars summer youth program. The students are spending Monday at the Team Leadership Center in Wayne County, where they will be working together as a [...]

After graduating from the second and final week of The Center for Rural Development’s 2009 Rogers Scholars summer youth program, the region’s future business leaders and entrepreneurs have challenged to go out and make their home communities in Southern and Eastern Kentucky better places to live. The final 30 of the 60 rising high school [...]

Sky Jewell of Green County has been recognized for having the highest-scoring application among students who participated in this summer’s second session of The Center for Rural Development’s Rogers Scholars program. Jewell, 16, a junior at Green County High School, was presented the Doug Reece Memorial Award at the Rogers Scholars graduation ceremony, held July [...]

Rogers Scholars on Thursday toured the John F. Kennedy Space Center via a live, interactive videoconference with NASA officials. The videoconference—presented by NASA’s Digital Learning Network and brought to Scholars by The Center for Rural Development’s CenterNET2 videoconferencing network—gave them a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to prepare a spacecraft for liftoff. Earlier in [...]

Playing in the 1972 Olympic Games was both the best and worst experience of Kenny Davis’ life. Davis, a Wayne County native and All-American basketball from Georgetown College, shared his recollections of being a part of perhaps the most controversial game in basketball history–and witnessing events surrounding one of the worst atrocities in Olympic history–with [...]

Rogers Scholars discovered just how important communication skills are as they participated in a leadership exercise that split them into teams and had them assembling Lego-block models based only on the instructions of their leaders. In the exercise, Scholars worked in three teams to try to fit the Lego pieces together in such a way [...]

Rogers Scholars worked on leadership and team-building skills on Monday at the Team Leadership Center in Wayne County. Under the direction of lead facilitator Norrie Wake and his support team, Scholars participated in a series of hands-on leadership and team-building exercises. In one of the exercises, Scholars learned what it takes to work as a [...]