NAACP ACT-SO NEW ORLEANS Students Travel to NAACP ACT-SO YOUTH OLYMPIAD

Generation Next - Return with 9 Medals and two $10,000 Lancôme Scholarships

July 24, 2024 LA Data News Editorials, News 0

Data News Staff Edited Report

Congratulations!!

NAACP ACT-SO NEW ORLEANS
The NAACP ACT-SO (Afro-Academic Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) is an enrichment program, grounded in Social Justice, and dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by providing opportunities for 9th – 12th graders who are guided to engage in critical, evaluative dialog with community members in their areas of expertise. Through competition and enrichment programs, New Orleans ACT-SO encourages high academic and cultural achievement among high school students.

Over 210 of our youth in the Greater New Orleans area and beyond registered to participate in our local competition in April 2024, in one or more of the 33 ACT-SO competition categories.

As a result of that competition, NAACP ACT-SO sent 28 Gold Medalists to the NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada (July 10th through July 14, 2024), to compete for scholarships and national recognition. The students represented 25/33 categories. All students rendered outstanding performances! We have returned with the following honors:

Malia Suggs – Gold Medal Vocal Classical Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy/ NOCCA
Yva Totchum – Silver Medal Engineering, The Willow School
Jeremiah Thomas – Silver Medal Culinary Arts. Istrouma HS
Alexa Chandler – Silver Medal Dance Traditional (Tap). Morris Jeff HS. Kelly School of Dance
Sage Rumney – Bronze Medal Dance Modern. NOCCA
Clarence Foster, Johnathan Griffin, Christopher Isidore, Blaize Carroll – Bronze Medals Hospitality. Warren Easton HS
Taelor Bailey – $10,000. Lancôme/NAACP Write Her Future Scholarship. Hahnville HS
Nola Thompson – $10, 000. Lancôme/NAACP Write Her Future Scholarship. NOCCA
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Gold Medalist received a cash award of $2000 each, Silver Medalist received $1500 each, Bronze Medalists, $1000 each. Our Culinary winner received a scholarship to the Culinary Institute of America. Our Lancôme Scholarship competitors were awarded $10,000 to be used toward their college education.