Chicago Westside Branch NAACP ACT-SO Program

Chicago Westside Branch NAACP ACT-SO Program Chicago Westside Branch NAACP ACT-SO Program ACT-SO includes 26 categories of competition in the Sciences, Humanities, Business, and Performing and Visual Arts.

Chicago Westside Branch NAACP ACT-SO
http://www.cwsactso.org/

The Afro-Academic, Cultural Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) is a major youth initiative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Founded in 1978, by the late author and journalist, Vernon Jarrett, ACT-SO provides a forum through which minority youth can demonstrate the same prowess, expe

rtise and recognition often only reserved for entertainers and athletes. The NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) is a year long achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students. More than 260,000 young people have participated from the program since its inception. Workshop Dates:

Malcolm X College
1901 West Jackson Boulevard
Room #2205
Chicago, IL

October 1, 2011
October 29, 2011
November 5, 2011
November 19, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 17, 2011

All workshops will start at 9:00 AM and end at 11:00 AM. THE 2012 ACT-SO COMPETITION

SPONSORED BY: UIC and the Latino Cultural Center

Saturday, April 14, 2012

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

University of Illinois at Chicago - UIC

PARKING $8.00

Parking lot 9
501 S. Morgan Street

STEVENSON HALL
Lecture Center B - Latino Cultural Center
701 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL

For more information call the Chicago Branch NAACP office at telephone number (773) 261-5890 or ACT-SO Chairman, Walter H. Washington or Co-Chairman, Carolyn Hankins-Page (312) 217-7378.

03/22/2025
2024 National ACT-SO Competition held in Las Vegas.
07/18/2024

2024 National ACT-SO Competition held in Las Vegas.

On Saturday, April 29th the Chicago Westside Branch held it’s competition at UIC Student Center East Building. The winn...
04/30/2023

On Saturday, April 29th the Chicago Westside Branch held it’s competition at UIC Student Center East Building. The winners from the local competition, which will be announced in May will be headed to the National Competition in Boston.

NAACP’s 113th Convention held in Atlantic City, NJ. The Chicago Westside Branch was at the 45th National ACT-SO Competi...
07/26/2022

NAACP’s 113th Convention held in Atlantic City, NJ. The Chicago Westside Branch was at the 45th National ACT-SO Competition.

Congratulations to all of the Chiy Westside Branch local gold medalist who participated in the first ever National ACT-S...
08/21/2020

Congratulations to all of the Chiy Westside Branch local gold medalist who participated in the first ever National ACT-SO Competition. Jaylen Lockhart of Whitney Young High School recruitment a silver medal under the STEM Category in Compo Science.

05/06/2020

Our Competition will be virtual this year. May 30, 2020. For more information contact Carolyn Hankins-Page at [email protected]

POSTPONED!!!! Updated Enrichment Workshop and Competition Flyers
02/07/2020

POSTPONED!!!! Updated Enrichment Workshop and Competition Flyers

POSTPONED!!!!Chicago Westside NAACP ACTSO schedule workshops.
12/08/2019

POSTPONED!!!!Chicago Westside NAACP ACTSO schedule workshops.

Everything is postponed!!! Workshops begin on November 30, 2019, Little Village Library, 2311 S. Kedzie, 1:30 PM
11/26/2019

Everything is postponed!!! Workshops begin on November 30, 2019, Little Village Library, 2311 S. Kedzie, 1:30 PM

07/27/2019

On July 18, 2019, NAACP ACT-SO Welcome Reception

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