Kindergartner Neev Kotandon was recently named a third-place winner in the U.S. National Park Service’s Frederick Douglass Oratorical Contest, in the ages 6-8 division. The contest, held in December, featured students giving live (in-person or virtual) presentations of a prepared speech, each evaluated by a panel of judges. As a top placer in the competition, Kotandon has been invited to give his speech again in July, this time on the front porch of Cedar Hill in Washington, D.C. the last known home of abolitionist and civil rights icon Frederick Douglass.