Since finishing the MIT REAP program in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kentucky REAP team launched the nonprofit AccelerateKY in October 2021 with an event that brought innovators from around the state and across stakeholder groups together to get to know one another outside usual circles. Since that time, AccelerateKY has helped launch a range of new initiatives. Most prominently, AccelerateKY has helped launch the 501(c)(3) Metals Innovation Initiative—with a mission to make Kentucky the destination for metals innovation. It’s also supported an NSF-funded initiative in two Appalachian school districts to tie computational thinking curriculum to a history of Appalachian ingenuity in those communities, a pilot program for content creators in Appalachian with the University of Southern California Civic Imagination Incubator, a virtual fellowship with the MIT Open Documentary Lab, and a range of other projects supporting Kentucky innovation initiatives and ecosystem partners.