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Moscow--Payton Hickert
Published 5/26/2011 in Youth In Excellence
Graduating senior Payton Hickert's fondest memory of high school was a foreign exchange trip that took her and her fellow classmates to Germany."A group of six of us went to Rotenburg and Berlin. It was the experience of a lifetime," the graduating senior from Moscow High School wrote in a questionnaire provided to The Telegram. "Getting to spend 16 days immersed in the German culture was the most exciting thing I have ever done."
Hickert, the salutatorian of her graduating class, has attended Moscow schools for 12 years and graduated with a 3.99 grade-point average.
Throughout high school, Hickert participated in state forensics, basketball, volleyball, cheerleading, was a volleyball and basketball team manager, and participated in scholars bowl, All School Play, 4-H, band and choir, and Spirit Club to name a few. In addition, she earned recognition in the Superintendents Honor Roll and was named to the Seward County Community College Deans Honor Roll and the Seward County Community College Phi Theta Kappa National Honors Society.
Hickert also served as class vice president in 2007-08, class president from 2008 to 2010, class treasurer in 2010-11, and C.L.A.S.S Leadership from 2008 to 2011.
Because Moscow is such a small school, Hickert wrote, most of her classmates have been together since kindergarten.
"We have grown up together, learned from each other, and become a family," she wrote. "I want to be remembered as part of this wonderful family that helped make us the people we are today."
As they embark on the next phase of their lives, Hickert gave the following advice to her fellow graduates: "If you work hard, you can do or be anything you want to be. If we work hard, we can achieve anything we want to achieve. Also, work hard but don't forget to live life. It is important to not let life pass you by. To quote the movie character, Ferris Bueller, 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.'"
Hickert plans to attend Kansas State University in the fall and major in chemical engineering — chemistry was her favorite class in high school — and minor in business.
The graduating senior said she chose chemical engineering because it "combines her love of chemistry, creativity, challenges, interesting work, and helping others."
"Whether I choose to go into the medical field or the petroleum industry, I will have a sense of accomplishment and a career I am passionate about," she wrote.
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