A Published Poet in the Hazelwood School District Midst

Patch Whiz Kid: Destiny West

• Whiz Kid's Names: Destiny West, Fifth Grade
• Whiz Kid's School/Church/Community Center: McNair Elementary School
• Whiz Kid's Accomplishment: Destiny has become a published poet as she was recently published in the 2011 Young Writers of America student anthology.
• Whiz Kid's Key to Awesomeness: Destiny wrote a poem that would inspire people to look at the bad and change it. “People will feel changed and want to make changes – such as not littering and picking up trash instead and not killing animals,” she said in a press release. She chose the theme, “The World as I see it,” and used the first letter of each word as a line in the poem. Approximately 20 percent of entries are published in the anthology, and the contest is open to students in grades three through six. 

Here’s the text of Destiny’s poem:

“The world can be filled with
Harmful and dangerous things because people are harming the
Environment.

We can all help the environment by turning
Off things we aren’t using like
Radios, televisions, etc. We should all
Learn to recycle paper and plastic – less saying and more
Doing

Animals are being harmed. We can
Save them by saving our environment.

It will be easy to

Save the
Environment and
Ecosystem

If we do 1, 2, 3 we can save a
Tree or more.”