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ACT-SO Youth Shine At 73rd NAACP Annual Convention
Sixty Young, gifted and black high school students captured gold, silver and bronze medals and nearly $45,000 in cash awards at the NAACP's Fifth Annual ACT-SO "Olympics of the Mind" during the NAACP 73rd Annual Convention in Boston.
 ACT-SO is the acronym for Afro-Academic, Cultural, Tech-nological and Scientific Olympics, the major vehicle in the NAACP's national drive to create the same thrust for achievement in the classroom that is currently exhibited for black youths on basketball courts and football fields throughout the country.
 Several of the nation's most distinguished black educators joined spokesmen of major industries in praising this NAACP program as "one of the most inspiring and important programs for youths in the whole country."
 The Boston ACT-SO attracted 3000 high school students from 72 cities, a predicted dropoff from the Denver ACT-SO last year because of the economic crunch felt by many black communities. Eighty-five cities competed at Denver.
 However, the Boston competition provided a dazzling display of previously unheralded talent in the sciences, the fine arts and the
humanities. The competitors, all high school students from grades nine through 12, earned trips to Boston by winning in their hometown Olympics in chemistry, biology, electronics, mathematics, physics, energy, architecture, sculpture, original essay, play writing, drama, music composition,

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