Cai A. might very well have engineering in his future. When asked to stack cups during the Swift Elementary Engineering Night, the 5-year-old kindergartener did so successfully only to do it again. And again. And again. Each time he wanted to make it better, stronger and less susceptible to him huffing and puffing and blowing the whole thing down. "I don't want it to fall - ever," he said. That's an engineer in the making, said Swift instructional coach Maria Thibodeau. | At Swift Elementary's Engineering Night, students of all ages learned more about what engineers - from chemical engineers to environmental engineers - do.  

When Martin High School freshman Chance H. starts an art project with an empty canvas, she often doesn't know what's coming. Usually she just begins the project and sees where her mind - and her heart - takes her. Chance's artwork that made it into the AISD Youth Art Exhibition at the Arlington Museum of Art is a colorful swirl of, well, confusion - and that's just the way Chance describes the painting. "It was really just some random stuff that popped in my head as I was doing it," she said. | Duff Elementary third grader Cooper P. stands proudly by his artwork displayed at the Arlington Museum of Art during Youth Art Month.

Blake Mycoskie was something of an explorer early on. Growing up in Arlington while attending Key Elementary and then Boles Junior High, his mode of transportation was his trusty bike that allowed him pit stops to probe the wonders of nature. His family and friends considered him something of a free spirit, and that hasn't changed now that he runs a multimillion-dollar empire. | Key Elementary, Boles Junior High and Martin High School alum Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS, the company with a business model to help a person in need with every product purchased.