Some 200 enthusiastic Black high school students from throughout the New York metropolitan area will converge under one roof to showcase their talents in the humanities, arts, and sciences at the 18th annual Olympics of the Mind competition set for Saturday, April 23, 2005 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Manhattan’s Martin Luther King Jr.
P Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (NYC ACT-SO), proud sponsor of the Olympics of the Mind, also will host the competition’s VIP Reception & Awards Ceremony to follow on Monday, April 25 at Con Edison, 4 Irving Place in Lower Manhattan. The VIP Reception (invitation only) will be from 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., and the Awards Ceremony (open to the public with ticket purchase) will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. With 150 chapters nationwide, NAACP ACT-SO, one of America’s best-kept secrets, is the largest program dedicated to academic achievement of Black youth in the country.
NAACP ACT-SO season is the first since last year’s passing of Vernon Jarrett, who created the national program in 1977. Mr. Jarrett was best known as a legendary award-winning journalist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the National Association of Black Journalists Inc. NYC ACT-SO will uphold and expand Mr.
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