$13,500 in Cash Prizes Given in International Discovery Award Competition; Fort Scott Student Receives Grand Prize

Fort Scott High School student Zoe Self has won the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Hero’s 2017 Discovery Award $7,500 grand prize. This international student competition awards creative projects that discover positive role models, or Unsung Heroes, whose positive impact on history remains largely unknown. Zoe wrote an original play depicting the story of Lilla Day Monroe, a Topeka-based suffragette who devoted her life to advocating for women’s rights. In addition t…

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