Academic Competitions

THS revives academic competition team

9 Feb 2012

TUPELO – Tupelo High School is trying to revive a tradition that was once a major source of school and community pride. The school added an academic competition team in November, and it began participating in Scholar’s Bowl events last month.

Mentors, students earn the gold in academic olympics

8 Feb 2012

Mentoring is a gift that comes naturally to Doris Hart, Arthemon (Art) Johnson and Hyacinth Burnside Johnson. Collectively they have spent more than 30 years guiding, instructing and encouraging youth with interest and desire through ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics), the annual high school academic competition of the Miami-Dade Branch NAACP. The results of ...

Quality of Academic Decathlon kids bodes well for our future

7 Feb 2012

I have a bone to pick with Ray Rafford.