Monday, March 10, 2025
Beautiful Memorial https://sylvesterturner.com/ Sylvester Turner
CLICK HERE: https://sylvesterturner.com/
$2500 Scholarship Forecasting the Future - thanks efamily member Sam Denard For Sharing!
📢 Help Spread the Word! 🎯 The Alliance for Decision Education is hosting Forecasting the Future 2025, a fun and interactive online tournament where middle and high school students (ages 13-19) compete by making predictions on real-world topics like music, sports, and movies! If you know students who might be interested, please share this opportunity with them! 🔹 Start Date: March 31, 2025 🔹 FREE Registration Deadline: March 30, 2025 (11:59 PM ET) 🔹 Duration: Six weeks 🔹 Grand Prize: $2,500 + additional prizes! Encourage young minds to develop their forecasting skills and compete for exciting prizes! Learn more and register here: https://alliancefordecisioneducation.org/teach/forecasting-tournaments/
Forecasting the Future Classroom Flyer (White).pdf
SCHOLARSHIP to STUDY Cybersecurity - thanks Sam Denard for sharing !
O'Reilly DEI Scholarship Apply HERE
Hello,
To help members of underrepresented groups develop and sharpen the tech skills needed to break through barriers within the field, we’re offering 500 annual scholarships that give recipients full access to the O’Reilly learning platform.
If you belong to a group that's underrepresented in tech—and that includes women, the Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian communities, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, and people with a physical or neurological disability—and want to kick-start your career, upskill, or develop new tech skills, we encourage you to apply. The deadline for applications is April 5, 2025.
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Sylvester Turner Memorial Details
To attend the funeral service: https://forms.gle/jY17KEaLRyCeqXrL7 To watch the service online: https://tcww.org/media/watch-live/
Black Cowboy Exhibit - Info from Forward Times "On My Way Home" Photo Exhibit through April 20th
YI from Forward Times - “On My Way Home” Photo Exhibit Celebrates the Rich Legacy of Black Cowboys in Rural Texas - interesting exhibition through April 20 at Gallery in Holy Family Episcopal Church, 3719 Navigation Blvd., Houston, TX 77003.
Friday, March 7, 2025
NEED A SCHOLARSHIP ? NAACP ACT-SO
Greetings High School Students, Family and Supporters
2022 ACT - SO Competition
Greetings High School Students, Family and Supporters,
Online Student Registration is required and now open until March 25, 2025, for High School Students (9th - 12th) grades, who are interested in competing in up to 3 different categories of the 2025 NAACP Houston Branch ACT-SO Competitions.
Students, please sign up and register ASAP before Spring Break by copying and pasting the link https://forms.gle/qmXP3pSJW162v6pCA or scanning the QR code on the flyer.
Students, it is imperative that you sign up ASAP, even if you have not determined what the title of your competition work is going to be. Students must use a email address that is not school related. Also, on May 7, 2025, U.S. travelers must be REAL ID compliant to board domestic flights and access certain federal facilities.
Some categories have specific and additional requirements such as The STEMS (Sciences) and Entrepreneurship. Also, Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management require students to be enrolled in a Certified Culinary Arts and/or Hospitality Management High School Program.
You are also invited to the March 2025 NAACP Houston Branch ACT-SO Competition Enrichment Sessions via Zoom, where you will learn more information about the 2025 NAACP ACT-SO Competition Season. These meetings are Mandatory, so you only have to register one time then you will be registered for all the meetings.
Students who sign up to compete will be required to submit additional documents and forms in order to compete in the local and/or NAACP National ACT-SO Competitions.
When: Friday, March 7, 2025, March 14, 2025, March 21, 2025, and March 28, 2025, at 07:00 PM - 8:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Please Register in advance for these meetings:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SoD7MKZOSESmfEZlUIwSuw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meetings.
Thank you very much in advance for signing up to compete and attend the Enrichment Sessions.
Stay tuned in, see you on Friday nights and please share the information with students who are interested in competing in the 2025 NAACP Houston Branch ACT-SO Competitions.
Save the Dates!
NAACP Houston Branch ACT-SO Enrichments Sessions:
Friday, March 7, 2025, March 14, 2025, March 21, 2025 & March 28, 2025 at 7 PM - 8 PM (CST) via Zoom, Registration is required.
NAACP Houston Branch ACT-SO Competitions: April 1, 2025 - April 28, 2025, TBA
NAACP Houston Branch ACT-SO Awards Ceremony: May 2025, TBA
47th NAACP National ACT-SO Competition and Awards Ceremony: July 9-14, 2025, Charlotte, NC
116th NAACP National Convention: July 12-16, 2025, Charlotte, NC
Ready Set ACT-SO!
Actso@naacphouston.org
Avelina Holmes
NAACP Houston Branch ACT-SO Committee Chair
2002 Wheeler Avenue
Houston, TX 77004
(713) 526-3389
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