Craig Thompson will present at the BOLD Conference at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Columbia, Maryland on September 26, 2015. The conference provides a full day of activities for young African American men in grades 8 through 11 living in the Columbia, Maryland area. U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings will be the keynote speaker and retired NFL player Keion Carpenter (Atlanta Falcons) will be a special guest. Mention of this upcoming conference appeared in KLTV 7 News and BlackRadioNetwork.com on September 3, 2015.