How cool, 7th grade girls from Missouri City Middle School
will be on the News. Flip your channel to FOX 26 at 5 pm or 9 pm and stay
tuned. This became possible because of our guest speaker.
Our Motivational speaker, Melinda Spaulding, is a
co-anchor of FOX 26 News. She is a member of the Houston Association of Black
Journalists. Her first reporting job was in New Orleans. She stayed in Houston
for 6 years. Melinda began her career working on television at KTLA WB 5 in Los
Angeles. She won an award for “Best News Writing” by the regional Associated
Press .Melinda wanted to encourage the girls to make good choices. She wants
them to make choices and bounce back up after making a bad choice. She was
giving contexts words for them to understand resilient. She taught them to be
positive and careful with choices and how to encourage other people around them.