HAMPTON ROADS
Nine students representing Area II in the 2020 NAACP AfroAmerican Academic, Technological, Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) National Competition are being celebrated for their national accomplishments.
Two students were named medalists, to include 16-year-old Ayana Askew of Norfolk, who is the 2020 National “GOLD” Medalist in Performing Arts in Poetry Performance and 15-year-old Amirat Kadri of Virginia Beach, who is the National “BRONZE” Medalist in Visual Arts in Painting.
“Each student was a pioneer who discovered how to navigate through this pandemic in spite of being quarantined.
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