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ACT-SO Travel Fund · 2026

Help send our ACT-SO gold medalist to Chicago

Our ACT-SO gold medalist earned his place at the national competition in Chicago. The community carried the last leg.

This campaign closed on July 14, 2026.Thank you to everyone who gave. For what comes next in Lafayette, visit actsolafayette.org.

The story

ACT-SO is the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics: a national program where high school students compete in the arts, sciences, humanities, and business, coached and championed by their communities. Think of it as an Olympics of the mind.

This year, Brayden Landry competed, delivered, and earned a gold medal! That medal came with an invitation: represent our community at the ACT-SO national competition in Chicago, July 15–19, alongside top students from across the country.

Early sponsors covered the big-ticket items: registration and the seat on the plane. The community carried the last leg: hotel, meals, and getting around Chicago.

Brayden Landry standing in a dance studio, smiling, in a navy letterman jacket with a red C Brayden Landry in a black suit on award night, holding his ACT-SO Lafayette Dramatics award, a smiling woman at his side under string lights Brayden Landry, center, on award night with two smiling men beside him, one with a hand on his shoulder

Founding sponsors

The ones who got us this far. These sponsors made sure this opportunity would never be in question.

  • Josiah Price ACT-SO Chair
  • Paula Grand
  • Wilson Prejean
  • Katharine Schendel
  • Brii Simmons
  • Michelle Colon
  • Tiffany Adams
  • Twana Benoit

Collected by Creative Reach in support of a competitor in the NAACP ACT-SO National Competition. ACT-SO is a program of the NAACP.