Chair: Dr. Caroyl Townsend
The ACT-SO Committee is responsible for implementation of the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics program under the NAACP. ACT-SO reinforces the importance of education, discipline, and personal development by fostering preparation, positive recognition, and participation in structured academic and creative disciplines. The committee’s efforts supports youth development while maintaining consistency with the NAACP’s long-standing emphasis on education as a foundation for opportunity, leadership, and civic participation. The committee’s work with national standards and expectations.
Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO): The Committee on ACT-SO shall follow these rules:
- must be properly registered annually with the National Office and follow all
directives outlined by the National ACT-SO Program; - understand that it is a major project of the NAACP. With ACT-SO, the NAACP is providing an instrument through which African-American youth are encouraged and inspired toward excellence in academic and cultural pursuits while benefiting from the maximum support of their communities;
- uphold its goal of ACT-SO that affords the same respect for African-American scholastic and cultural achievement that is given to heroes; and
- recognizing that ACT-SO conducts annual academic competitions for students in grades nine (9) through twelve (12) in NAACP Branches throughout the country in accordance with the published guidelines of the National Office and oversight of the National Director of ACT-SO Program.