BELHAVEN — From Belhaven to Washington, D.C., a fifth-grader will soon be headed to the nation’s Capitol for the Presidential Inauguration Leadership Summit.

Griffin Johnson, 10, who attends Northeast Elementary School, is set to attend the event in D.C., which runs from Jan. 18-22.

Northeast Principal Mark Clinkscales selected Johnson to attend the Pathways to STEM Leadership Conference in 2015, and alumni of this program were offered the chance to participate in the Leadership Summit.

As part of the summit’s Envision Impact Series, participants ranging from elementary-school-age to college-age and from all over the country will tackle world issues and present solutions in small-group delegations. The top six delegations will receive grant scholarships to attend more Envision-related programs, according to Leadership Summit website.

Johnson said he is preparing for the summit by reading a series of articles, and during his time there, will mostly discuss the topic, “Drones, Clones and Genomes.”

Participants will also attend the inauguration ceremony and a celebration gala at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History, the website states. Featured guest speakers are: Gen. Colin Powell, Spike Lee, Malala Yousafzai, Gov. Martin O’Malley and Carly Fiorina, to name several.

Johnson said he is looking forward to learning as much as he can and getting a taste of some of the issues America’s leaders face every day.

“It’s an extraordinary experience. It means that I will learn a lot,” he said. “I will get to meet new people. I will meet kids from across our country and hear their ideas.”

Johnson is an all-A student and is the son of Ben and Amy Johnson of Belhaven. In his spare time, he enjoys playing sports, sailing, board games and theater activities.

“Needless to say our family is extremely proud of Griffin and the opportunities this Leadership Summit opens up for him,” Amy Johnson wrote in an email. “To be able to participate in this experience at his age is once in a lifetime. We are so proud of his willingness to jump right in with other kids his age from all across the country he has never met.”

Johnson may be spending the five-day summit with new faces, but he said he isn’t nervous about it. As far as the Johnsons know, he is the only student to be attending from Beaufort County, and they didn’t know if other students from North Carolina would be there.

“I’m hoping to learn a lot of stuff, learn more about the topics,” he said. “It would be an honor to tell about our area, to represent our area.”