About this Event
<h4>Join us as we kick off our 6th Annual LEAD Girls of NC Girls Rising EXPO with Zaila Avant-garde on Thursday, October 24 at 5:30pm!</h4>
Zaila Avant-garde will be discussing her new book, It's Not Bragging If It's True: How to Be Awesome at Life, at Parkland High School. Admission is free, but registration is required to attend. Please note that there will be a signing line and an opportunity to meet the author at this event.
Hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, Avant-garde won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, making her the first African-American to win in almost 100 years of the competition. Along with competing in spelling bees for two years, Avant-garde holds two Guinness World Records for her basketball prowess. She holds the records for the most bounce juggles in one minute (four basketballs) and most basketballs dribbled simultaneously by one person (six basketballs). She was also named SportsKid of the Year 2021 by Sports Illustrated Kids.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Kids will be inspired to embrace their inner weirdness and persevere through obstacles after reading this empowering collection of true stories from teenage Scripps National Spelling Bee champ and Guinness World Record holder Zaila Avant-garde! Includes 8 pages of never-before-seen photos.
After Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021, she turned into an overnight sensation. People wanted to know who she was and how she’d achieved so much while so young.
In this nonfiction book, Zaila shares the personal anecdotes that have shaped her life and extends advice to readers on living authentically. While Zaila is an exceptional and inspiring young woman, she has fears and anxieties just like everyone else; what makes her remarkable is the way she chooses to move through the obstacles in front of her.
Zaila shares about her family, her accomplishments, her experience of being homeschooled, and so much more in order to motivate and uplift other kids who have small-, medium-, and even big-sized dreams.
More about LEAD Girls’ Annual Expo
LEAD Girls’ annual 2024 Girls Rising Leadership Expo is typically a two-day event, but with this news, we can expand! The three-day event will provide girls with a unique empowerment experience that incorporates mental, physical, and financial wellness. To learn more visit our site at www.leadgirls.org
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Parkland High School, 1600 Brewer Road, Winston-Salem, United States
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