Know a child who goes above and beyond to help those in need? How about a student who's constantly setting the bar higher day by day? Or maybe a youngster who's endured an amazing journey already in life?

Kent Patch is looking for parents, schools and organizations to nominate a valedictorian, athlete, school club member and any other outstanding youngster for our new weekly feature, Whiz Kid.

Whether they're a math whiz, a soccer whiz, a fundraiser whiz or anything in between, we want your nominations.

We want to stress that this is not a competition. We will be featuring a Kent Whiz Kid each week, so the more the merrier!

Nominations should be submitted by e-mailing editor Matt Fredmonsky at Matt.Fredmonsky@patch.com. Nominations should include the following information about the child:

• Name
• Age
• School
• Outstanding Deed
• Key to Awesomeness

We will send our nominees some contact info, and once selected we will have this week's Whiz Kid meet with one of our writers for a short interview to see what makes them so great.  Let the nominations begin!