The Kentucky Division of Schooling has chosen the Owensboro Innovation Academy (Owensboro Unbiased) to signify the Commonwealth within the 2022 Nationwide Christmas Tree show.
Owensboro Innovation Academy joins 57 different colleges throughout the nation in creating one-of-a-kind ornaments for the Nationwide Christmas Tree show on the Ellipse in President’s Park in entrance of the White Home.
The ornaments will adorn 58 smaller bushes that encompass the Nationwide Christmas Tree, which represents every U.S. state, territory and the District of Columbia as a part of the America Celebrates show.
“The America Celebrates show is likely one of the highlights of the Nationwide Tree expertise and we’re so excited for everybody to see the designs that our gifted college students from the Owensboro Innovation Academy got here up with to signify what they suppose makes Kentucky lovely,” mentioned Kentucky Commissioner of Schooling Jason E. Glass. “I’m so glad they had been capable of take part on this enjoyable and artistic occasion, in addition to be taught lots in the course of the course of.”
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Dyana Newton, Owensboro innovation Academy English facilitator, mentioned her graphic design college students had been used to displaying their art work domestically and had been grateful for the possibility to take action nationally.
“We’re excited to be part of the Nationwide Christmas Tree show and have the ability to signify the Commonwealth’s variety in such a inventive and distinctive method,” she mentioned. “We host quite a few student-run occasions centered round their initiatives all year long. They had been excited to have the chance to showcase their work on a bigger scale.”
The decoration design course of started with Owensboro Innovation Academy’s Ninth-Twelfth grade graphic design college students taking a look at earlier decoration designs. The category mentioned what they appreciated and didn’t like about them. From there, college students realized and researched about Kentucky information and symbols.
A lot of Newton’s college students had not studied Kentucky earlier than this venture and had been thrilled to be taught extra about what makes the Commonwealth such a particular place to reside.
“We mentioned what made Kentucky distinctive and particular to every scholar personally,” mentioned Newton. “College students mixed these issues with the analysis they did on Kentucky to determine what they thought represented the Commonwealth’s variety finest.”
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The scholar’s goal was to create an authentic, distinctive decoration design utilizing Kentucky state symbols that answered the query “What makes your state lovely?” College students may use any medium and the alternatives different from pencil, markers and crayons to digitally drawing with a stylus, mentioned Newton.
Senior Alistar West mentioned they selected to reply the immediate with an decoration depicting Owensboro’s neighborhood, “one of many many locations that makes Kentucky lovely.”
“The decoration I made is consultant of Owensboro’s tight-knit neighborhood,” mentioned West. “I actually loved brainstorming methods to painting summary concepts. Within the decoration, it depicts 4 people from completely different backgrounds having fun with one another’s firm. There are various various kinds of individuals from Owensboro and it actually is good to see individuals being handled as equals.”
Junior Abbey Dockery was most enthusiastic about having inventive freedom with the design.
“The factor I loved most about making my decoration was attempting to determine what design to go along with,” mentioned Dockery. “My decoration is a bit of the U.S. map with Kentucky within the middle and monarch butterflies on Kentucky representing our state butterfly. I selected butterflies as a double that means being that they’re our state butterfly and that butterflies have an enormous that means to me in my private life.”
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Newton mentioned it’s vital for her graphic design college students to have an understanding of artwork for all future endeavors in graphic design.
“In our college, artwork is a method for the scholars to indicate their individuality and self-expression in a secure setting,” she mentioned. “Artwork could be a medium to indicate feelings, emotions and specific opinions whereas additionally being therapeutic.”
The a hundredth Nationwide Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony will likely be broadcast Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. ET on the CBS Tv Community. The tree show is free to go to and will likely be open to the general public Dec. 2-Jan. 1.
Now that the ink has dried and his signing with Kentucky has been made official, Jasper Johnson was finally able to be formally introduced to the Rupp Arena crowd during the Wildcats’ 87-68 win over Western Kentucky on Tuesday night.
Johnson, a class of 2025 five-star point guard born and raised in Lexington, sat courtside with his family to check out his future team in action against the Hilltoppers. During the second half, former Kentucky player Ravi Moss brought out the future Wildcat to midcourt where he was met with a chorus of cheers from the packed crowd of Big Blue Nationites.
After initially committing to Kentucky back in September, Johnson signed the necessary papers to play his college basketball at UK earlier this month. He’s been inside Rupp Arena plenty of times before over the years (and even played here with Woodford County as a sophomore), but never while wearing street clothes as the center of attention in front of over 20,000 screaming fans.
The smile says all you need to know.
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Johnson is one of three signees from Mark Pope‘s first recruiting class as Kentucky’s head coach, joining four-star center Malachi Moreno and four-star point guard Acaden Lewis. The 6-foot-4 guard is ranked No. 14 overall in the nation by the On3 Industry Ranking. He’s currently finishing up his high school career at Overtime Elite as a member of Rod Wave Elite (RWE).
Alongside Tay Kinney, a talented class of 2026 guard who is also from Kentucky and is being recruited by Pope, the two Bluegrass natives form arguably the deadliest backcourt duo in all of OTE. Through five games played this season, Johnson is averaging 19.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.4 assists per outing while shooting 47.9 percent from the floor and 42.9 percent from deep.
This time next year, we’ll hopefully see him do the same thing in Kentucky blue and white.
Johnson family – Dr. Michael Huang, Kentucky Sports Radio
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
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