Student of the week: Cora Cox

Pawnee seventh grader Cora Cox, beyond keeping her grades up stays very active in school activities. She is the girls basketball manager and plays volleyball and basketball on the junior high teams. She plans to participate in track as well. But Cora knows how to stay focused on the task at hand.

"I am really good at math, and that is probably why I like it," Cora said. "It's easy to like something you are good at."

Along with math, Cora also likes studying history.

"We are working on Greece right now," she said. "We get to see how they lived, what they ate, and what the differences are from n...