250 Students Compete at Annual History Day Regional Contest in New Haven: Finalists Move on to Connecticut State Contest on May 9 at CCSU

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For Immediate Release
March 16, 2015
Contact: Chris Zaccaro
chris.zaccaro@cga.ct.gov
(860) 246-1553 ext. 116

New Haven, CT – This past Saturday, March 14, 2015, over 250 students representing the communities of Bethel, Durham, East Haven, Hamden, Meriden, Middlebury, New Haven, North Haven, Southbury, Southport and Woodbury presented their History Day projects to judges at the New Haven Regional History Day in Connecticut Contest at Wilbur Cross High School.

New Haven Mayor Toni Harp, President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut State Senate Martin Looney and State Representative Juan Candelaria presented awards to students who placed within the top three of their respective categories at an Award Ceremony that took place at the end of the day.  History Day participants can choose to present their projects, which must be based on this year’s theme of Leadership and Legacy in History, within one of the five History Day categories. These categories include exhibits, documentaries, websites, papers and performances. Students in grades 6-8 compete within the Junior Division and students in grades 9-12 compete within the Senior Division. Students who place in the top three in their respective categories and divisions are invited to compete in the State History Day Contest, which will take place on May 9, 2015 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. The final results from the History Day in Connecticut Regional Contest are available here.

The following schools took part in the New Haven Regional Contest:

 

Bethel Middle School, Bethel
Coginchaug Regional High School, Durham
East Haven High School, East Haven
Engineering Science University Magnet School, New Haven
Greenfield Hill Girls School, Fairfield
Joseph Melillo Middle School, East Haven
Memorial Middle School, Middlebury
Nonnewaug High School, Woodbury
North Haven Middle School, North Haven
Pequot Homeschool, Southport
Pomperaug High School, Southbury
Rochambeau Middle School, Southbury
Sacred Heart Academy, Hamden
Thomas Edison Middle School, Meriden
Wilbur Cross High School, New Haven
Worthington Hooker Middle School, New Haven

The New Haven Regional Contest was co-organized by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University.

The Fairfield and Mansfield Regional Contests will take place this coming Saturday, March 21 at Fairfield University and Mansfield Middle School, respectively.

History Day in Connecticut is an affiliate program of the renowned academic program, National History Day (NHD).  History Day in Connecticut is led by Connecticut’s Old State House with support from the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut League of History Organizations, and ConnecticutHistory.org.  Major funding is provided by Connecticut Humanities.  For more information, contact History Day in Connecticut State Coordinator Rebecca Taber-Conover at 860-522-6766, ext. 11 or rebecca.taber-conover@cga.ct.gov.

Learn more about History Day in Connecticut by visiting its webpage http://ct.nhd.org, liking the program on Facebook, or following on Twitter.  The National History Day website may be viewed at http://www.nhd.org.