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TWO MIAMI-DADE STUDENTS WIN RECOGNITION AT MIAMI - Two Miami-Dade public schools student finalists from the Miami-Dade NAACP ACT-SO competition were among the national winners at the 32nd Annual NAACP ACT-SO National Academic competition in Kansas City, Mo., this week. The winners are Kayla Burgess, a senior at Miami Palmetto Senior High, and winner of the gold medal in Dramatics; and Karen Feliz, a 2010 graduate of New World School of the Arts, the silver medalist in Painting. ACT-SO – the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics – is a yearlong enrichment program designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students. Gold medalists at the local level qualify for the national finals held each summer. The 20 finalist-contingent included students from Miami Edison, Design & Architecture, North Miami Beach, Felix Varela, New World School of the Arts, Coral Reef and South Miami senior high schools competing in over 26 categories, ranging from the arts: dance, drawing, oratory and music composition; to the sciences: biology, engineering, medicine and computer science. For further information, contact Art Johnson, Chair of NAACP ACT-SO Miami Dade, at # # # 10-JS/205/HD |
