Meet the Alliance/ACT-SO Journey Awardees!

by The Alliance //
KATLYN POWELL, Wearing Bathwater, Painting. Grade 12, North East School of the Arts, San Antonio, TX. The Alliance/ACT-So Journey Award
KATLYN POWELL, Wearing Bathwater, Painting. Grade 12, North East School of the Arts, San Antonio, TX. The Alliance/ACT-So Journey Award

The Alliance/ACT-SO Journey Award, in partnership with the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), provides travel stipends for up to ten ACT-SO scholars, who also receive Scholastic Art & Writing Awards’ National Medals, to attend the National Ceremony at Carnegie Hall.

To be considered for this award, students needed to select ACT-SO as their “Other Educational Program” when submitting works to the 2019 Scholastic Awards.

Here are the 2019 awardees:

Katlyn Powell and Zion Thompson

ZION THOMPSON, Lips as Accessories, Photography. Grade 9, Home School, Albuquerque, NM. The Alliance/ACT-SO Journey Award
ZION THOMPSON, Lips as Accessories, Photography. Grade 9, Home School, Albuquerque, NM. The Alliance/ACT-SO Journey Award