Hartford –
Nearly 300 Hartford-area middle and high school students will participate in
the annual Hartford Regional History Day Contest set to take place at Capital
Community College on Saturday, March 25. 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. At 12:45 p.m. Tammy Denease will
provide a living history performance for attendees as she portrays the life of
African-American aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman. An Awards Ceremony is
scheduled to take place at 1:45 p.m. – State Representative Edwin Vargas will
be on hand to honor student winners.
Students
representing towns and cities in the Hartford area will be participating in the
March 25th contest. A list of
participating towns can be found here
(scroll down to Hartford).
Participants
will begin presenting to teams of judges at 9:30 a.m. Signage will be displayed
within the school’s halls, 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. Financial support for the
Hartford Regional Contest is provided by Connecticut Humanities.
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 Hartford Regional Contest will be posted to the Connecticut History Day
website, www.historydayct.org, on Monday, March 27. 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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