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Mansfield, CT – Nearly 200 middle and high school students will participate in the annual Mansfield Regional History Day Contest set to take place at Mansfield Middle School on Saturday, March 4. Volunteer judges will assess original student exhibits, performances, documentaries, websites and papers and send the top three projects from each category to the State History Day Contest where they will compete against winners from the state’s five other regional contests. The public and media are invited to attend the competition and view student projects between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. An Awards Ceremony is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. State Senator Mae Flexer will be on hand to assist with presenting awards and prizes.
Mansfield, CT – Nearly 200 middle and high school students will participate in the annual Mansfield Regional History Day Contest set to take place at Mansfield Middle School on Saturday, March 4. Volunteer judges will assess original student exhibits, performances, documentaries, websites and papers and send the top three projects from each category to the State History Day Contest where they will compete against winners from the state’s five other regional contests. The public and media are invited to attend the competition and view student projects between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. An Awards Ceremony is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. State Senator Mae Flexer will be on hand to assist with presenting awards and prizes.
Students
representing towns and cities in the Mansfield area will be participating in
the March 4th contest. A list of participating towns can be found here, under the "Mansfield" category. Participants will begin presenting to teams of judges at
9:30 a.m. Signage will be displayed around the school, directing attendees
where to go for particular contests. The teams of judges – consisting of local
educators, historians and history lovers – will review the projects and choose
the top three in each category. More information about the day’s events,
including the schedule, can be found here
at the program’s website.
Students, who
have now spent months developing their projects, based their entries on this
year’s National History Day® theme, Taking
a Stand in History. Participants
work alone or in groups and enter their project into one of five History Day
categories: exhibits, documentaries, website, paper, and performance. The State
History Day Contest is scheduled to take place at Central Connecticut State
University in New Britain on Saturday, April 29.
Results from
the Mansfield Regional Contest will be posted to the Connecticut History Day
website, www.historydayct.org, on Monday, March 6. For more information on the contest
and the program, contact CHD State Coordinator Rebecca Taber-Conover at
860.522.6766 ext. 11 or rebecca.taber-conover@cga.ct.gov.
Connecticut
History Day is an affiliate program of National History Day (NHD)®.
It is led by the Connecticut Public Affairs Network (CPAN) with support from
the Connecticut State Department of Education, Connecticut Council for the
Social Studies, the Connecticut League of History Organizations, Connecticut
Explored Magazine, and ConnecticutHistory.org.
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