Hi! My name is Tess Howicz and I’m a junior IB student. I love to write and make up stories. I also love animals and hope to own at least one dog and cat when I graduate. I found my love for writing during my freshman year when I joined journalism 1. I only really had a small interest for writing at the time and I honestly thought I wasn’t very good at it. Then I wrote my first ever article and Mrs. Nichols thought it was good enough to be in the actual Prowler! I was so ecstatic that I devoted the rest of my freshman year to learn as much as I could about journalism. For the next year, I joined Newspaper and the Stony Point journalism UIL team. I hope this year and next year I start winning UIL competitions and make it to nationals. My dream is to become a professional journalist and become a writer for a famous newspaper like The New York Times or The Washington Post. I also hope that one day I will write and publish a bestselling book.