Teen of the Week: Arras Wiedorn

Arras Wiedorn, a volunteer at Maryland Therapeutic Riding, marches to her own drumbeat, but keeps in step as a member of the Old Mill High School Steel Drum Band.

"She's an avid artist with a bent toward the unconventional," said Dr. Elizabeth P. Mitchell Coronado, coordinator of the International Baccalaureate Programme at Old Mill High School. "Her talents are definitely not mainstream."

Arras, 17, describes herself as "eccentric."

The Severna Park resident is a 13-year student at Carter School of Dance, experienced in cecchetti, flat, pointe, jazz and tap dance styles.

She is...