DETROIT (WXYZ) — A Detroit fifth grader’s artistic vision will come to life on Thanksgiving Day as her winning float design rolls down Woodward Avenue in America’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Lyric Weathers, a student at Schulze Academy, won the Skillman Foundation’s 34th annual float design contest, beating out hundreds of other Detroit elementary and middle school students. Her design, titled “Cultures Are Around the World,” features gardeners from many cultures working together in a garden, planting flowers with words like “hope” and “dream.”
“I started drawing, it took me about 6 weeks,” Weathers said.
The contest challenged students in grades 4 through 8 from Detroit public and charter schools to create a float design based on the theme “My Dream for the World.” Professional artists from the Parade Company then transformed Weathers’ drawing into a full-scale float…