BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Construction is underway for a new learning innovation center in Bowling Green.
The Impact Center for Leadership and Innovation will offer several dozen classrooms, giving students opportunities never provided before.
The center will provide project-driven, innovative learning. Cody Rich with Warren County Public Schools, will be the center’s new principal.
Rich said, “It’s going to be the first leadership innovation academy of its kind in the world that we know of.”
Rich showed Spectrum News 1 the landscape of the site. He said that students will have a choice to learn in one of six different academies that will be offered at the center: AI and Cyber Systems, Biomedical Innovation and Aeronautics.
Rich said, “We’re hopeful to build planes, build aircraft, get kids in the air, have some fun with drones and do some cool things.”
The other academies will include Robotics and Advanced Systems, Design, Enterprise and Visionary Arts, and Industrial Design and Fabrication. Each academy will have several learning pathways.
Rich said, “About 19 pathways, six academies.”
The Impact Center will be free for students. It will be mainly for 7th to 9th graders full time; however, 10-12 graders can also participate based on student interest in certain specialized programming.
Construction is expected to be finished in Aug. 2026.
