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NAACP Vancouver Branch ACT-SO Scholarship

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$5,000

deadline Due: April 30, 2026
graduates No min. GPA required

Eligibility

NAACP Vancouver Branch ACT-SO Scholarship, with an application deadline in April, offers 2 awards of $5000 each. Ethnicity requirements apply. Location restrictions exist. Restricted to those with financial need.

Description

The NAACP Vancouver Branch ACT-SO Scholarship is available to participants of the NAACP Vancouver Branch ACT-SO program. In 2021, the NAACP-Vancouver Branch established their ACT-SO Program in Vancouver, WA. The NAACP's 'Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) is a year-long student personal and professional development, and achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students. The ACT-SO Program includes 33 competitions in areas such as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), Humanities, Business, and Performing, Visual and Culinary Arts, Aviation, Medical fields. Students can compete in up to three different categories of the 33 areas to choose from. Participants work with community-based volunteers for one year to develop projects and presentations. The experience culminates in local and national events where students compete for awards, and national gold medal winners are eligible for scholarships. Applicants for the scholarship must have participated in the NAACP Vancouver Branch ACT-SO program. They must be high school students who will continue their education at an accredited college, university, Historically Black Colleges, technical or career school during the upcoming school year. Preference will be given to ACT-SO Medalists; first-generation students; and/or students with demonstrated financial need. Please visit the scholarship's website or contact the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington for more information.
Level of Study
High School Junior High School Senior College Freshmen
Scholarship Type
Need Based Merit-based Minority College Student African American

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