GOOD NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
National History Day Competition Still Going Strong
By EMILY HILBERT
ONEONTA
SUNY Oneonta hosted the New York State level of the National History Day competition in mid-April. This is an annual event that allows students from grades 6-8 (Junior level), and 9-12 (Senior level) to research a historic topic which can then be presented in any of five ways: documentaries, exhibitions, performances, websites, and papers. The majority of these can be done either as an individual or with a group of two to five students, with papers being the exception, as individual only. Primary and secondary sources are required for all research, which is centered on an annual theme. This year, in recognition of NHD’s 50th anniversary, the theme was “Turning Points In History.”
Themes are intentionally open-ended to allow for students to interpret them however they see fit, and this was reflected in the wide variety of topics displayed. Everything from the launch of Sputnik, to the invention of the x-ray, to the Bolshevik revolution, and even the Newsies Strike of 1899.
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