The city of Versailles and Woodford County, Kentucky, has a city hall, a world renowned distillery, and is home to more than 10,000 people.

But it's missing one thing a flag.

That's where the fourth graders at Southside Elementary School come in.

Our Kelsey Starks has that story and our weekly arts and culture segment we call tapestry.

Can you help with this problem?

So we have this flag.

We have a state flag.

We do not have a city of for sale flag for sales.

Mayor Laura Dake and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman both visited Southside Elementary School back in February, with a challenge for the fourth graders to create a flag for the city of for sales.

And when they look at it, they say, oh, this must be love or sales is like, right?

So that's that's a that's a lot to capture usually in one image.

But these nine and ten year olds were up for the challenge and it was their teachers behind this project based learning or PBL assignment.

We just recently became, a PBL school at the beginning of the year.

This is our first year doing PBL.

And all of us here at Southside just jumped right on board.

During our training, they actually told us about Lexington and how our school was inspired to create the flag for the city of Lexington.

And we immediately got on the phone and texted the current mayor at the time.

And we were like, hey, does the sales have a flag?

Because if they don't, we have an opportunity for you.

Project Based Learning, or PBL, is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real world projects.

The idea is that it fosters real world life skills.

They've been very engaged.

They have super high engagement during project based learning.

They also really have been learning just, crazy communication skills.

They've been learning how to work with one another, work through problems, and that's all preparing them for the real world.

To complete this project.

They had some real world experiences in a field trip to downtown.

They learned about the history of the buildings there.

In a visit to City Hall, the mayor and City Council members talked about colors and branding they wanted for the city.

It all culminated with each group of 4 or 5 students presenting their flags in a community expo, where they not only showed off their final flag designs, but presented them with explanations about their design choices.

We love this sign because, we trust each other, and that's why we thought a heart and a hand represent that.

I feel like it represents results from our sales really well and like I feel like it released summarizes every detail that we are given.

We really took each detail to heart, and we tried to incorporate it in every way possible.

State characters because, we put them hands on different colors because we are all different in our own way, but we're all united and stuff.

So that's what I think brings everything, like really together and like our big retail sign too.

But like any real world problem, it didn't come without challenges.

Now we have the our like final product, but we went through a lot of challenges and changes for a flag.

We had one flag and we didn't know how like simple it had to be.

So after that we had to go to a different flag and we had to totally change the whole thing.

And it was like hard work and it was there was a little bit of arguing, not that much, but it was still like hard work.

One thing that I really have enjoyed is just like seeing the comradery of the grade level.

The kids have just really encouraged one another.

We had them practice a lot with each other and never once did I hear anyone downgrade another group.

It was always.

I really love the way you did this.

Maybe you could try this during your presentation.

It was all very positive and I loved that.

A little girl in my class talked about how everyone was winning because we were all in this experience together, and that they were going to remember it for the rest of their lives.

School staff members voted on a final Four, and those groups had the chance to work with a local graphic design firm to tweak their design before presenting the final four designs to the sales City Council.

And I hope the years from now they can see the flag of our sales.

And remember in fourth grade, a little bit of power that they had in fourth grade and something they were able to accomplish even as a young child.

I think as a kid, it's hard to feel like you have the ability to change anything when you're not old enough to vote or you're not old enough to have a job.

So I think my biggest goal is for them to carry this all the way through life and say, hey, I made a change in my community in fourth grade and now I'm an adult so I can make a change in anything that I really believe in.

So I want them to take that with them forever.

A real world lesson that will fly over their sales for years to come.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Kelsey Starks.

Many thanks Kelsey, and we are happy to report the new fly for the city of Rosales will be this flag designed by Mellie Bram, Dominique Lopez, Maddie Green, and Harry Prather, fourth graders at Southside Elementary.

Way to go, kids!

The flag will be officially raised at City Hall on Flag Day, June the 14th.

Our congrats.