Whiz Kid Mollie Fox Will Join Journalism Convention in Washington

Bloomfield- Bloomfield Hills Patch regularly features students doing amazing things. This week's Whiz Kid is a state finalist in tennis who also knows how to write, and received national recognition for it.

Mollie Fox

School: Lahser High School

Age: 16

Hometown: Bloomfield Hills

Achievement: Fox will represent Lahser and Bloomfield Hills as a national youth correspondent at the Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University in Washington D.C. in July. She will be among roughly 250 students from around the country chosen to attend the event, which is designed as a student-leadership conference designed to develop and encourage future leaders in the changing face of media in the 21st century. Many leaders in the fields of politics and journalism are expected to attend.

Conference officials also selected Andover High School's Sarah Kavan to attend this summer.

Key to success: Nominated by a high school teacher, Fox submitted a piece of her writing that was evaluated by a panel that chose her to participate in the convention. In addition to her writing skills, Fox maintains a 4.0 GPA, is active in Key Club and the Model UN, and is a tri-captain on the varsity tennis team.

"This will be an amazing experience that will help me in the future," she said. "I will have the opportunity to begin to decide whether this is an area I'd like to pursue in college and eventually for a career."

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