The Adair County School District Technology Department would like to announce that on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, Students from Adair County Middle and High School attended the Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) State Competition held at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Our Students participated in Digital Photography, Feature Video, Cinemania Live Challenge, Website Design Challenge and Helpdesk/Support Challenge.
We are proud of our students and STLP Coaches that attended. Adair County Middle School students earned 2nd place in Helpdesk/Support Challenge (grades 6-8) while our High School Students earned 2nd place in Digital Photography. Jason Rector, CIO served as a Judge in the Website Design Challenge Elementary level while Jennifer Cross, School Media Specialist/School Technology Coordinator served as Judge in Creative Digital Arts – Logos. We also want to thank William Roberts for transporting our Champions via Bus for this big event day along with Grayson Bragg, Network Engineer on hand for any technical needs.
The Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) empowers student learning and achievement through the use or creation of technology based solutions to school and community needs.
Students create projects, products or services to meet those needs and then demonstrate their process and learning via various STLP categories. Categories range from instructional, technical or community service based projects to digital content creation (digital art, photography, design, programming, app development, robotics, etc.) to technical services (student help desk, network engineering, wireless deployments, etc.). The best projects, products and services from Regional competitions are invited to compete at the STLP State Championship each spring.
STLP taps into the students’ interest and challenges/motivates them to explore new ways of learning and helping their school/community. State sponsored events highlight the creative, logical, and often entrepreneurial, talents of students across the state. In short, STLP provides a means for students to design, make, collaborate and learn through the general medium of technology and provides a platform for those 21st century college and career skills to be demonstrated.
You can find a complete listing of STLP Champions statewide at https://sites.google.com/education.ky.gov/stlp25state/stlp25-champions and watch the recording of the live broadcast from Rupp Arena by going to https://ket.org/program/kentucky-stlp-championships.
Congratulations to these Students, as STLP itself not only rocks, but Adair County Students help build our future foundations of tomorrow!
(Jason Rector, DoT-CIO – Adair County Board of Education)