For Immediate Release
March 17, 2015
Contact: Chris Zaccaro
chris.zaccaro@cga.ct.gov
(860) 26-1553 ext. 116
Fairfield, CT - On Saturday, March 21 over 300 students representing the communities of Bridgeport, Fairfield, Greenwich, Middlebury, Newtown, Norwalk, Redding, Ridgefield, Sandy Hook, Shelton, Southbury, Stamford, Wallingford, Weston, Westport and Wilton will present their History Day projects to judges at the Fairfield Regional History Day in Connecticut Contest. The contest will take place at Fairfield University and is co-sponsored with the University’s Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions.
Students in grades 6-12 have spent months researching a history topic of their own choice related to this year’s theme of Leadership and Legacy in History. Participants can choose to present their projects 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. From there, state winners will be invited to represent Connecticut at the National History Day Contest at the University of Maryland in June.
State
Senator Tony Hwang and State Representatives Laura Devlin, Cristin McCarthy
Vahey and Brenda Kupchick will assist with the Awards Ceremony, which is scheduled
for a 2:00 p.m. start time. The names of
winning students and entries will be posted on the History Day in
Connecticut website (ct.nhd.org) the Monday after the contest. Fairfield
is one of the six History Day in Connecticut Regional Contests held in
Connecticut throughout March. The Mansfield Regional Contest will take place on
the same day and the Manchester and Hartford Regional Contests, which are the
final two of the six, will take place next Saturday, March 28. The Torrington
and New Haven contests took place earlier this month.
The following schools will be
represented at the Fairfield Regional Contest:
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford
Fairfield Woods Middle School, Fairfield
Roger Ludlowe Middle School, Fairfield
Academy at Little River Farm (homeschool), Redding
Bedford Middle School, Westport
Madison Middle School, Trumbull
Turn of the River Middle School, Stamford
Memorial Middle School, Middlebury
Shelton Intermediate School, Shelton
6 to 6 Magnet School, Bridgeport
Wilton High School, Wilton
Weston Middle School, Weston
Rochambeau Middle School, Southbury
Tomlinson Middle School, Fairfield
Pomperaug High School, Southbury
Academy of Information Technology & Engineering, Stamford
Staples High School, Westport
Bridgeport Military Academy, Bridgeport
Homeschool – Newtown, Sandy Hook
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich
Cairn Hill Academy, Weston
Crowley Homeschool, Ridgefield
Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk
Phoenix Prep, Newtown
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.
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