We are recognizing eight students representing Blake, Middleton, Riverview, and Spoto high schools.  The categories include:  Humanities, Poetry; Performing Arts, Contemporary, Dance, Contemporary Vocal, Instrumental Music Classical, Oratory; Visual Arts, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture.

ACT-SO provides a forum for these students to demonstrate academic, artistic, and scientific prowess and expertise, thereby achieving the recognition often reserved for athletes and entertainers.  There are 26 categories of competition in the sciences, humanities, business, and performing and visual arts with more than 260,000 young people participating since its inception.  The Hillsborough County Branch of the NAACP has been an active participant for more than two decades.  These students received Gold Medals at the local level and will travel to Nevada July 17, 2014, to compete at the national level.