What is ACT-SO?

The NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics is a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students.

ACT-SO includes 29 competitions in STEM, humanities, business, and performing, visual and culinary arts. Almost 300,000 young people have participated from the program since its inception.

In 2019 year the program teamed up with a custom writing company Essay Writing Service to show students the possibilites that essay writing can open.

Click below to download a copy of the 2015 NAACP ACT-SO Competition and Ceremonies Souvenir Journal.