Jan 20, 2023
2022 Rogers Scholar and Pulaski County High School student Seth Kissinger raised money and needed supplies for families impacted by the historic record flood in Eastern Kentucky. Seth partnered with First Christian Church, Boy Scout Troop 79, and Floyd County FRYSC...
Jan 20, 2023
When 2022 Rogers Scholar Hayden Watkins of Rowan County learned a college-bound student lost everything in the Eastern Kentucky floods, he wanted to help. Hayden launched a GoFundMe page and raised $750 to purchase college supplies for a Knott County student. “Knott...
Sep 28, 2022
2021 Rogers Scholar and Cumberland County High School student Tyler Dowdy raised $111 in pledges to support The Center for Rural Development’s 2021 Step-A-Thon fund-raising event for Rogers Scholars, Rogers Explorers, and Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute youth...
Sep 20, 2022
With an average hospital stay of 25 days for long-term care patients, 2021 Rogers Scholar Ellen Cherry of Pulaski County decided to put together an “art cart” to give patients at ContinueCARE Hospital, Baptist Health Corbin, something to do while they are...
Sep 19, 2022
2021 Rogers Scholar and Pulaski County High School student Henry Gillum donated 19 port pillows to patients at Lake Cumberland Cancer Treatment Center for his community service project. In honor of his paternal grandparents who died from cancer, Henry learned to sew...
Sep 19, 2022
2021 Rogers Scholar and Somerset High School student Johnna Katherine “Kate” Bruner organized a county road cleanup for her community service project. “This is a great community service project and my families’ second time participating in a county road cleanup....