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Roosevelt High junior one of 12 winners of the National Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Sierra A. Porter, Des Moines Register © Ada Fender/Special to the Register Ada Fender: WINDSOR HEIGHTS, IOWA - JUNIOR, ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL Lot of teens dream of making their own, original music with top artists. Ada Fender, 17, has actually done it.  The Windsor Heights resident said she learned about the contest from her mother, Jenny Fender.  I like to write songs a lot, and it sounded like a really good opportunity if I was able to become a finalist, Ada said.  She entered a rough draft of her song in February 2020 and learned she was a finalist in September 2020. Called,  Great Grim Green,  her musical theatrical number is set in a fantasy world called Morania, where the character Liz, an orphaned, 27-year-old peasant, sings of deciding to visit a witch, known as the Great Grim Green Guinevene, who she asks to turn her into a new person.

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