FLOYD COUNTY, KY (WOWK) – A teenager in Floyd County is helping give back to his community while honoring the memory of a fallen K-9 officer. According to the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, Floyd Central High School Senior Todd Prater created “Operation Drago’s Comfort” to provide law enforcement officers with gifts to give kids who […]
Floyd County Schools Superintendent Anna Shepherd has announced that Floyd Schools students Kendyll Hall and Todd Prater have been selected as 2022 Rogers Scholars.
May 25, 2021
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2020 Rogers Scholar and Corbin High School student Spencer Hays, right, and Ashton Noyes practice martial arts. | Photo contributed
CORBIN â 2020 Rogers Scholar and Corbin High School student Spencer Hays partnered with Jeremy Patton of United Martial Arts to develop a social media anti-bullying campaign for males and females, ages 5-18, in Laurel, Knox, and Whitley counties. The goal was to demonstrate ways to combat bullying while teaching morals to children and teens.
During the course of the nine-month project, Hays was able to reach 1,700 people with nearly 25 social media anti-bullying posts.
âThis project means a lot to me because I was once an uncoordinated, chubby kid. I was shy and bullied into doing things I didnât want to do,â he said. âUnited Marital Arts gave me a place to be myself, and once I learned self-defense, that confidence bled over into other places, such as school. Bullying is awful and by camp