Eastern Kentucky Report: Shaping Our Appalachian Region Blog

July 11, 2022

CEDAR Innovation and Entrepreneurship seeks input for upcoming Hackathon

CEDAR Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in partnership with SOAR, is developing a Hackathon program for high school students, in collaboration with the Congressional App Challenge. What’s a Hackathon? A Hackathon is…

July 8, 2022

East KY Trail Town Summit to be held in Morehead on July 19

The Eastern Kentucky Trail Town Summit will be held in Morehead on Tuesday, July 19. The FREE event will take place at the Morehead Conference Center from 9:30 a.m. to…

July 7, 2022

SOAR receives $60k from Connect Humanity for broadband planning

Shaping Our Appalachian Region, Inc. (SOAR) today announced it received a $60,000 grant from Connect Humanity to build a Broadband Master Plan and provide Eastern Kentucky communities with a detailed…

July 7, 2022

Meet the Digital Equity Planning Grant Program

Digital equity must go hand-in-hand with broadband installation. Learn how the Digital Equity Planning Grant Program will help the Eastern Kentucky economy.

July 6, 2022

Plenty to focus on in this week’s roundup

It’s been a bit since we last provided a roundup, but that doesn’t mean things have slowed down. With that, we’ll get back into the swing of things. We’ve got…

July 6, 2022

Charting Kentucky’s PATH: Reskilling and Upskilling Eastern Kentucky’s Workforce with eKAMI

As EKY transforms into an agritech hub, we must prepare our residents for advanced manufacturing career opportunities. eKAMI and SOAR are leading the way.

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