The UP Center

10/19/2026

📣 SUPPORT OUR SKILLSUSA CHAPTER! 🇺🇸🔧

We’re raising funds to support our SkillsUSA Chapter and help our students continue developing the leadership, technical, and professional skills they need to succeed in their future careers! ❤️💙

Every contribution makes a difference by helping provide opportunities for our students to learn, grow, compete, and represent their programs with pride! 🏆

🙌 HOW TO SUPPORT US:
When making your purchase, please be sure to INDICATE WHICH PROGRAM YOU ARE PURCHASING IN SUPPORT OF! Your selection helps us make sure your support goes toward the program you want to champion!

🛠️ Choose the program you want to support:
🔨 Carpentry
💻 IT
🚗 Auto
🚜 Heavy Equipment
🩺 Healthcare
⚡ Electrical
🎨 Media Arts
🔥 Welding

📢 PLEASE SHARE! Help us spread the word and show our students that their community believes in their potential!

Thank you for supporting our future workforce, investing in student success, and helping our SkillsUSA students LEVEL UP their futures!🚀

10/19/2026

🏗️🚜 BUILDUP FIELD DAY IS BACK! 🚧🔨

BIG equipment. HANDS-ON experiences. REAL career exploration.

We're gearing up for BuildUP Field Day 2026, and we can't wait to bring students, families, and industry partners together for TWO days of hands-on fun!

📅 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | STUDENT EXPERIENCE
We're kicking things off with a special field day for Nelson County Schools middle school students! Students will rotate through interactive stations led by industry professionals, getting the chance to explore equipment, try new skills, and discover the incredible careers that build our communities.

📅 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 | COMMUNITY DAY
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM | FREE & OPEN TO EVERYONE!

We're opening the experience to the entire community! Bring your family and join us for a day of hands-on activities, equipment demonstrations, and opportunities to meet the people and businesses building our future.

📍 BuildUP at Bloomfield Middle School | Bloomfield, KY

📸 Take a look at the action from last year's Field Day! This is what happens when students get to roll up their sleeves, explore new possibilities, and experience careers firsthand!

👏 Stay tuned as we reveal our 2026 industry partners, interactive stations, and exciting experiences leading up to the big event!

💙 Your future isn't found. It's FORGED.

Follow the event for more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/1E8FKJ1eNh/

10/15/2026

Thank you Mago Construction Company this incredible footage of our facility 🤩

This building is a product of partners like you continually investing in the future of our students and the future of this community!

The future is not found, it is FORGED! 🐉

10/10/2026

🇺🇸 Help Us Honor Our Heroes! 🇺🇸

This Veterans Day, our Fusion Center for Advanced Math & Science students are turning gratitude into action! ❤️🤍💙

Fusion is partnering with Disabled American Veterans (DAV) to create a beautiful Field of Flags at the UP Center, honoring the brave men and women who have served our country.

⭐ Just $5 sponsors one American flag, representing one veteran and the sacrifices they have made for our freedom.

Flags will be displayed outside the UP Center during the week of November 9 in recognition of Veterans Day.

🇺🇸 Help us fill the field with gratitude, honor, and pride!

👉 Donate here: https://sfnd.io/287n4

10/05/2026

🏗️ HELP US BUILD THE NEXT GENERATION!

BuildUP Field Day 2026 is coming November 6 & 7 — and we’re looking for community and industry partners to help bring it to life!
We’re inviting businesses, tradespeople, contractors, organizations, and industry partners to host a hands-on station that gives students and families the chance to experience the world of construction firsthand.

🔨 Your challenge: Create an interactive experience that gets participants doing, building, operating, solving, or creating while introducing them to your industry and the careers within it.

📍 Bloomfield Middle School | Bloomfield, KY
📅 Friday, Nov. 6: Middle & High School Student Rotations
📅 Saturday, Nov. 7: Family & Community Day

Ready to build with us?
👉 Scan the QR code on the flyer to sign up to lead a station! (or access the link in the comments!)

We’ll be sharing more information for students and families soon — for now, we’re calling on our partners to help us create an unforgettable experience. 🏗️💪

09/20/2026

09/18/2026

🩸❤️ CCMA Blood Drive Success! ❤️🩸

We are so proud of our CCMA students for helping make yesterday’s blood drive at the Nelson County UP Center, hosted through the Kentucky Blood Center, a huge success!

Our goal was to collect 18 pints of blood—and we did it! 🎉 18 pints collected!

That means our students and community members came together to help make a real difference in the lives of others.

Even more exciting, about half of our CCMA class was able to donate blood themselves! 🙌 And those who were unable—or simply not eligible—to donate still played an important role by promoting the blood drive and encouraging others to participate. Every effort helped!

We couldn’t be more proud of our future healthcare professionals. They’re already learning that caring for others goes far beyond the classroom—and they’re making an impact right here in our local communities. 🩺❤️

Congratulations, CCMA students, on reaching your goal and helping save lives! 🩸👏

09/11/2026

🏥What an incredible day for our Nelson County Pulse Healthcare Year 1 students!
A huge THANK YOU to the McDowell House Museum and Apothecary for hosting our students today! We had an amazing time exploring the historic buildings of Danville and learning more about the fascinating history of healthcare. 🩺

🏛️ Did you know that on Christmas Day in 1809, Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed a groundbreaking surgery that would become a landmark in the history of medicine? A woman, believed to be carrying twins, traveled 60 miles on horseback to the home of Kentucky physician Ephraim McDowell. Without the benefit of anesthesia, Dr. McDowell opened her abdomen and successfully removed a 22½-pound ovarian tumor! 😳

Talk about a story that brings healthcare history to life!

📸 Parents & families—be sure to ask your student what’s happening in these pictures! Have them tell you what they learned today and explain the incredible story behind Dr. McDowell and this historic medical procedure.

And, of course, no field trip is complete without some good food and fellowship! 😁 We had a great time at Cracker Barrel, enjoying time together, getting to know one another, and building relationships within our Pulse Healthcare program.

We are so proud of these students and the curiosity, enthusiasm, and teamwork they continue to bring to Pulse Healthcare! 💙🩺

Thank you again to the McDowell House Museum for helping make today such a memorable learning experience!

09/11/2026

You don’t want to miss THIS!

See you September 20!