The T.A. Howard Middle School Honor Band, under the direction of Nathaniel Neugent, was recently selected by the National Wind Band Honors Project as a National Winner.

The National Wind Band Honors Project is a national competition that seeks to recognize and award outstanding achievement in performance by high school and middle school bands. The Project is entered by recordings and the top quarter are selected as National Winners and the second quarter receive Commended Honors.

75 bands across 25 states entered the 2008 competition.