Event Highlights

Event Dates

NCNW's Uncommon Height Gala:
Honoring Oprah Winfrey

June 4, 2009

"Runways Youngins" Fashion Show

May 23, 2009

Sojourner Truth Bust Unveiling

April 2009

Black History Month:
“Blacks in Wax Museum”

February 26, 2009

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Tour

February 2009

People's Inaugural Ball:
Sewing Up Dreams

January 2009

NCNW's Uncommon Height Gala: Honoring Oprah Winfrey
June 4, 2009
Washington Hilton, Washington, DC

SETLC's Junior Bennett Belles stepped up the excitement as they performed at the National Council of Negro Women's "Uncommon Height" Gala, honoring Oprah Winfrey.  [More...]

Runway Youngins ~ "Sew Young, Sew Fly, Sew Out of This World"
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Southeast Tennis and Learning Center

Tennis scholars turned fashioniastas at Runway Youngins, the 2nd annual fashion show featuring participants in SETLC's Sew 'N Know Entrepreneur Program. [More...]

Tennis Scholar Depicts Sojourner Truth on Capitol Hill
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC

Tennis scholar Tierra Holloway shared the legacy of Sojourner Truth as Congress honored the abolitionist and women's rights advocate. [More...]

Blacks in Wax “Museum”:  Bringing History to Life
February 26, 2009
Southeast Tennis and Learning Center

Young scholars from SETLC chronicled African-American history—From Chains to Change—when they recreated their own version of the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.  [More...]

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Tour
February 2009

Tennis scholars were invited to take a special "behind the scenes" tour of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. [More...]

People's Inaugural Ball:  Sewing Up Dreams
January 2009
Washington, DC

Participants in SETLC's Sew 'N Know Entrepreneurs Program helped make dreams come true for guests at the People's Inaugural Ball.  [More...]