Whiz Kid: Lori Lamm

Patch Whiz Kid of the Week: Lori Lamm

Name: Lori Lamm, Age 17 

School/Organization:  Lori is a junior at Enumclaw High School where she is a member of the school's noteworthy and was a member of the school swim team and the girls wrestling team. Her favorite areas of study are in math and science. Outside of school, Lori plays the cello with the Tacoma Youth Symphony.

Biggest Accomplishment: It probably won't be Lori's biggest accomplishment in her young life, but this young lady, along with two friends, are to make 1,000 paper cranes and along with asking for a $1 donation per crane, in hopes of donating that money to the Japanese Red Cross to support relief efforts after the devastating earthquake last month.

Lori got the idea from a friend in the Tacoma Youth Symphony who is doing the same thing at a Tacoma school. But this isn't her first foray into community service. With her church group she packaged food at the food bank and did yard work for the elderly. She even helped out on a farm in Australia.

“That was eye-opening; it made me want to help people,” she told Patch in an earlier interview. “People are the same everywhere; they just try to differentiate.”

Lori earned that trip to Australia thanks to excellent test scores that was recognized through People to People. She has also been featured in the Who's Who directory of American high school students.

Key to Awesomeness:  "It's character traits," she said. "You should be a nice person and forthcoming and someone who cares about others and not about themselves."

More on Lori: Check out our video of Lori earlier this week demonstrating to the Key Club how to fold a proper crane. 

Learn more about the paper crane project on its Facebook page or email papercranes.enumclaw@yahoo.com.

Need a refresher on how to make the crane? Click here.

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