More than 100 Kentucky teens applied to be part of an FBI academy this summer.

20 were accepted into the FBI Louisville Teen Academy and became embedded with a team of special agents at the Louisville field office last week.

The FBI says this community outreach program teaches young people the different ways the FBI operates and their community, and what career paths could await them in the federal law enforcement field.

And it's a four day program every July that we have.

They basically will come in, they'll learn all about our mission, our priorities, our investigative programs, our special teams that we have, and a lot of just kind of the casework that we're doing will go over case briefings with them.

We'll discuss some hands on learning.

We'll go over to our regional computer forensics lab.

And they'll be able to work with, digital forensics and kind of get, really indoctrinated into kind of like what the FBI does on a daily basis.

One of the really cool hands on things that we got to learn was I got to learn how to solder this week, and we had, I think it was a motherboard, for like a trip wire laser thing.

And so me and a partner got to build it from scratch and do different pieces of it and learn about the technology behind it.

And that was a really awesome hands on experience.

This is definitely a Kentucky focused program, this teen academy.

So we have 20 students right now that are in the, in the teen academy.

And so what we want to do is promote Kentucky, right.

Like and show them that you can have a career in federal law enforcement.

You can protect American, the American people.

You can uphold the Constitution in Kentucky.

I really thought that the FBI was just like police officers, like 2.0.

But there are so many different like, categories within the FBI that like, no matter which path of law that I take, I feel like it could all come back to the FBI in the end.

And I could play a part in the FBI when I'm older.

Something that I found really interesting was IRT, which is the evidence Response team.

The agent that came in to teach us about it was absolutely phenomenal.

She did a great job.

I've never really looked into that seriously.

Something I would want to pursue, but hearing about it and her being interactive with us and having it as a discussion and a dialog kind of showed me, I'm thinking in the same ways that she is, or that she wants us to think, and that if I wanted to pursue this specific career, that I could be good at it, and I didn't even know it existed until this week.

The purpose really is for us to engage with the community, but also for them, for the communities to develop that trust and confidence in the FBI, but then also for us to instill certain skills into young people in the community.

So we're teaching them leadership skills, some team building skills.

I feel like just being able to be here and talk to other teens that have like, similar interests to me and talk to adults that want to help me and want to, like, give me that extra step, an extra push to know what I like to do and know what I'd be good at, and know the things that I'd be interested in.

And listening to me, having that and having those connections is just so important and such a great thing that I feel like I've gained through this past week.

One thing that this Academy really emphasizes to the students who are a part of it, is just public service.

Being able to look at myself and say, hey, like I have the ability to help someone else with my resources and how could I do that even if I'm not doing that from a law enforcement, position, does it mean that I can't go into my daily life and go out of my way to be kind to other people, or help them out with what I have access to?

The FBI also has a similar outreach program in the fall called the Citizens Academy.

This education courses once a week at the filled office and last seven weeks.