NAACP ACT-SO is the civil rights organization's Academic Cultural, Technological, Scientific Olympics and is designed to recruit, stimulate and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students. ACT-SO includes 26 categories of competition in the sciences, humanities, business, and performing and visual arts. More than 260,000 young people have participated from it's inception.
On Sunday, May 24th, Joseph Edwards '16 won the NAACP ACT-SO Gold Medal Award in Physics. He will compete with other Gold Medalists from across the country at the 37th NAACP National ACT-SO Competition in Philadelphia, PA in July.
Congratulations to Joseph!
