SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS HIGH SCHOOLS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT CONFERENCE - OCTOBER 21, 2011

Mark your calendars for the next Missouri State University and NAACP Youth Empowerment Conference - more information will be posted soon!

TUTORING AND MENTORING AT CENTRAL

The Education Committee of the NAACP holds tutoring and mentoring sessions at Central High School for all African-American students on Wednesdays from 1:15-1:55. For more information, contact  Peter Meidlinger at pmeidlin@drury.edu or at 873-7469.

The Springfield, MO NAACP Chapter has a Youth Council and A College Chapter.

Springfield, Missouri 2012 ACT-SO Competition 

 

We will start the recuitment for the 2012 ACT-SO competition in September 2011.  For more information, please contact Peter Meidlinger at pmeidlin@drury.edu or at 873-7469.

Thank you for supporting last year's local competitors! ACT-SO is a major youth initiative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  Founded in 1978, by renowned author and journalist, Vernon Jarrett, ACT-SO provides a forum through which African-American youth demonstrate academic, artistic and scientific prowess and expertise, thereby gaining the same recognition often only reserved for entertainers and athletes.

 

ACT-SO is rooted in the firm conviction that African-Americans can succeed and compete at the same or superior levels as their counterparts in classrooms, boardrooms and laboratories across this nation and abroad.  The mission of ACT-SO is to prepare, recognize and reward African-American youth who exemplify scholastic and artistic excellence.  The ACT-SO goals are:

 

1.     To mobilize the adult community for the promotion of academic and artistic excellence among African-American youth.   

 

2.     To recognize academic and talent achievement among African-American students

 

3.     To provide and assist African-American students with the necessary skill  to establish goals and acquire the confidence and training to make a successful contribution to society.

 

ACT-SO currently includes 26 categories of competition in the sciences, humanities, business, and performing and visual arts.