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Students who participate in ACT-SO compete with other students (locally) in up to 3 of 33 categories that includes STEM, Humanities, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Business and Culinary. Local winners go on to compete with students from across the country at the National Competition.
Refers to owning, organizing, and managing your own business by providing a necessary product or service.
Demonstration of restaurant and foodservice industry knowledge through the development of a business proposal for a new restaurant concept
The science or art of arranging music by ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination or in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity.
A brief examination of a subject in prose usually expressing a personal view or interpretation of a subject or topic.
A literary composition developed for the stage.
A composition, marked by language chosen for its sound, beauty, and evocative power.
To perform a series of rhythmic and highly technical patterned bodily movements usually performed to music using grace and precision.
To perform a series of rhythmic and technical patterned bodily movements usually performed to music.
To perform a series of rhythmic and patterned bodily movements usually performed to music that focuses on the dancer’s interpretations using their emotions and moods to develop choreography.
To perform a series of rhythmic and patterned bodily movements usually performed to music to reflect the life of the people of a certain region or country to tell a story
The art of staging or acting plays.
The art of performing with a device used to produce music with tones of the late 18th and 19th centuries characterized by an emphasis on balance, clarity, and moderation.
The art of performing with a device used to produce music with the tones of the present.
The art of performing with the human voice rhythmic tones or sounds of the late 18th and 19th centuries characterized by an emphasis on balance, clarity, and moderation.
The art of performing with the human voice rhythmic tones or sounds to produce music with the tones of the present.
The art of effective written and oral presentation to persuade or inform. (This is not a dramatic presentation.
An original poem or prose, written by the contestant, performed as a monologue or exchange involving extemporization.
Plans for and models of structures and outdoor spaces.
The science of life or of the origin, structure, reproduction, growth and development of living organisms collectively.
Science that deals with the composition, structure and properties of chemical processes and phenomena of substances and the transformation that they undergo.
Science that deals with the theoretical aspects of computers including storage and the transformation of data using computers.
The body of sciences that include geology, mineralogy, physiographic, oceanography, meteorology, climatology, astronomy, speleology, seismology, geography, etc.
Technology. Projects that directly apply scientific principles to manufacturing and practical uses.
The science of numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions of spaced configurations and their structure. Development of formal logical systems or various numerical and algebraic computations and the application of these principles.
The study of diseases and health of humans and animals.
Theories, principles, and laws governing energy and the effect of energy on matter.
The art of representing forms and figures on a surface by means of lines executed by hand or computer (digital) generated processes.
The art and process of making motion pictures.
Art created by applying pigment on a two-dimensional surface with a brush, knife, or hand and/or the manipulation of digital processes with a computer.
The process, art and technique of capturing images with an analog or digital camera.
The art of making three-dimensional forms or designs.
The creative practice of cooking. One who engages in the culinary arts, or a culinarian, is either called a cook or a chef depending on their level of expertise.
Students must attend a school with a Certified Culinary Arts Program.