National History Day is an academic-enrichment program that helps students learn about historical issues, ideas, people and events. The year-long academic adventure fosters students’ enthusiasm for learning and encourages them to use primary, secondary, community and statewide resources on a subject of their choice related to an annual theme. The theme for 2010 is “
Innovation in History: Impact and Change.” It is coordinated in Iowa by the
State Historical Society of Iowa.
From this years National History Day competition in Iowa there are four Story County students who are advancing to the National Contest in June at the University of Maryland.
In the senior division (grades 9-12), Mikayla Sullivan of Ames High School was chosen in the Individual Documentary category for "
Barren to Fields of Plenty". Her teacher is Dianne Hugdahl.
The junior division (grades 6-8) competitors advancing from Story County were: Tyler Ronca from the Ballard Junior High School in the Historical Paper category for "
Louis Braille: Giving the Treasure of Sight to the Blind" (teacher: Alison Peterson) and Paige Plate and Hanna Bell from the Nevada Middle School in the Web Sites category for "
Factory Safety Regulations: From the Ashes of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire" (teacher: Karen Ross).
Additional information about the
senior division competition and the
junior division competition includes the other Iowa contestants who are advancing to the national competition.
Congratulations to all the students who competed in this and thank you to all their teachers!
