Three TeenSHARPies win prestigious Telluride scholarship

Three TeenSHARPies were recently selected for the Telluride Association Sophomore Seminar (TASS) 

TASS is an elite program with a 5 percent acceptance rate internationally.

Niki Dupree, a sophomore at Padua Academy, Naheem Watson, a sophomore at Mount Pleasant High School, and Destiny Smith, a sophomore at Tower Hill School, will be heading to universities for six weeks of college-level seminars as part of the program.

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TASS, held at Cornell University and the University of Michigan, focuses on the study of history, politics and cultural experiences of people of African descent.

Dupree and Watson will both be attending University of Michigan — Dupree to study “African American Mobility and Travel Abroad: From Paul Cuffee to Ta-Nehisi Coates” and Watson to study “The Cultural Politics of Race in Media and Literature.” Smith will attend Cornell to study “Shades of Blackness: Exploring Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the African Diaspora through Performance, Film, Music, and Art.”