A local second grader was chosen by Sen. Jana Hughes to have his artwork hung in her office. He drew the poster for the Nebraska agriculture poster contest.
Lakynn Griffiths of Milford drew a windmill for the competition. Griffiths said everyone in his second-grade class had to submit something for their social studies class.
Lakynn said he found out he had won when one of the teachers told him.
“I was in class when one of the second-grade teachers, Mrs. Roth, peeked in our room and said, ‘Can I have a talk with Lakynn real quick?’” he said. “I came over there and she told me that I had won.”
Along with art, Lakynn enjoys riding his bike, shooting hoops, and playing football and other sports.
“Sometimes I like to draw, do how to draws and color in coloring books,” he said.
“He draws all kinds of different things,” Tara Griffiths, Lakynn’s mom, said. “He likes to look at something that is already drawn and he’ll redraw it and make it his own.”
Not only is art something fun for Lakynn to do, but Tara said it helps him focus.
“Teachers would give him a clipboard, a marker and a piece of paper during circle time because he was having a hard time focusing,” she said. “They figured out that when he did that he was actually hearing everything and could remember all those things.”
Since the drawing that was chosen by Hughes was something they did in school, Tara said she hasn’t gotten to see it.
“We’re hoping to contact her (Sen. Hughes) and see it this summer,” she said. “We’re hoping to go to the capitol building and see it and maybe get a photo with it.”
Lakynn said he felt really good when he found out his artwork was chosen.
“Nothing like this has ever happened and nobody in the school has ever gotten anything like that,” he said. “Nobody in Mrs. Roth’s class or in any of the other grades has ever gotten anything like this before.”
