A Dover high school puts an innovative twist in a celebration ceremony for Black History Month

All good awards shows have performances and "Carter G. Woodson Awards" is no exception.

Dozens of the students in the Early College High School at Delaware State University put together this program to celebrate Black History month.

A project about diversity, which also honors history, just in time for one of popular culture's biggest nights, the Oscars. 

English teacher, Dara Savage, is the creative mind behind the awards ceremony and tells 47 ABC what caused her to create this ceremony. Savage states, "The lack of diversity in the Oscars. It was a perfect time to have the children honor who necessarily don't always get honored and it was started last year as a research project."

The award ceremony had eight categories from Literary Giant to Beautiful Minds which honors inventors.

The students posted the categories and the nominees on social media, opening up the voting to their friends and families on the internet. And during the ceremony, the students made their way to the stage representing their nominees, as their acceptance speech had to be from the point of view of their nominee.

Early College High School's Principal, Evelyn Edney, tells us in between the awards, they had performances.

Edney tells 47 ABC, "It put a little culture in so students can get a taste of some of the things that you see in black culture and it's what we call teachable moments but students don't even realize they are having fun while they're doing it."

These educators say the award ceremony may have been a mock event but each student won something more valuable than a statuette.