DLHS student wins national photography contest
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A David Lipscomb High School student recently won first place in a national photography contest.
Bryce Lokey won the fifth annual American Council for International Studies "Travel is Education" scholarship contest with his entry, "Flying through History." The photo pictured his neighbor, 2-year-old Jack Morgan, playing with a toy plane in front of the Parthenon in Nashville.
Lokey competed against 2,000 high school students from across the United States. He won a $1,000 travel scholarship for himself and a $1,000 travel scholarship for his sponsor, Kathy Musick, an art teacher at Lipscomb Middle School.
"I really thought there would be no way I would win," Lokey said. "I'm really glad Mrs. Musick encouraged me to enter." 
Musick and her husband, Larry, are sponsoring an ACIS trip to England, Germany, France, and Switzerland in May. Lokey will be going on the trip.
"As a teacher, you can try to motivate and motivate, but few students will actually jump at opportunities," Musick said. "I am so proud that Bryce took the initiative."
Bryce is excited about his trip to Europe with ACIS.
"I am looking forward to Paris, France, the most because I've been taking French since my freshman year," Lokey said. "I am also looking forward to France because I will be able to see a friend of mine, Aurelien Desrousseaux, who boarded with my family as a foreign exchange student."
Lokey is a junior at David Lipscomb High School. He sings tenor in the chorus and participates in the "Standing Room Only" drama club. His parents are Bill and Melanie Lokey of Nashville.