BOSTON — Hundreds of students showed off their skills as they vied for the opportunity to secure college scholarships at the 114th Annual NAACP National Convention held in Boston on Thursday.
High school students from more than 200 NAACP chapters across the country started competing in the civil rights organization’s Afro Academic Cultural, Technological-Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) program. Students are competing in 32 disciplines, including STEM, visual and culinary arts, entrepreneurship, and more.
The ACT-SO program was founded for the NAACP Chicago chapter in 1978 by Vernon Jarrett, a respected African-American journalist and commentator who founded the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
The NAACP National Convention will continue through Tuesday.
More information about the ACT-SO program can be found here.
