Grace Benes is the founder of the American Cichlid Association’s Kids in Cichlid Keeping program (KICK). KICK hosts a room at the ACA convention every year where kids can do fishy crafts, play games, and watch movies. The KICK kids also have a kids-only auction, speaker, and pizza party. All activities are planned by Grace and several other kids who attend the convention with their parents every year.
Grace also participates in 4-H, showing horses, a goat, and chickens. She is a Zoo Teen at the Cincinnati Zoo and also volunteers at the Newport Aquarium. She has her own aquariums at home, too.
