History Day

Simone Prince-Eichner, Junior Individual Performance, Prince Home School, Lummi Island

Samvit Jain, Junior Paper, Redmond Junior High, Redmond

Emily Hamlin, Junior Individual Exhibit, Sunrise Elementary, Redmond

Hillary Smith, Junior Paper, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Rahul Devanarayanan and Nick Kodati, Junior Website, Redmond Junior High, Redmond

Jon Fortescue, Junior Website, McKnight Middle School, Renton

Marlee Raible and Nic Jensen, Senior Website, Stanwood High School, Stanwood

Shelby Woods, Michael Gant, Manny Estacio, Emily Molstad, Senior Group Exhibit, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Trevor Consoliver, Junior Individual Exhibit, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Leigh Douglas, Senior Individual Performance, Inglemoor High School, Kenmore

Lauren Olson and Julia Roper, Senior Group Performance, Lynden High School, Lynden

Nathan Maris, Senior Individual Documentary, International Community School, Kirkland

Teachers

National History Day and its state affiliate, Washington History Day, provides leading-edge training and curriculum materials to help educators meet and exceed education standards. Annual workshops help educators learn how to adopt National History Day in their classrooms, while also offering strategies that make history education interesting, exciting and fun for students.

Students/Parents

National History Day encourages students to become historians by developing research, analysis, presentation and social skills. Working individually or in groups, junior (grades 6-8) and senior (9-12) division students select a topic related to an annual theme. They conduct extensive historical research using primary sources, articles, and books, then distill their research and analysis into a dramatic performance, multimedia documentary, museum exhibit, website, or research paper.

Judges

Judges evaluate entries based on historical quality as well as effectiveness of presentation. History Day judging is a one-time volunteer commitment. It involves four to six hours spent evaluating the result of students' independent historical research and includes a complete orientation session. Groups of two or three judges consider a series of entries in a particular category and provide positive feedback through oral and written evaluation. The top entries chosen by the judges will pass on to the next level of the History Day program.

Regional Events

Students may choose to compete in regional contests held in February and March, entering their project against others in the same division and category. Regional winners advance to the Washington History Day state contest, held in late April or early May.

State History Day

Students who have competed in a regional contest around the state and placed high enough will then move on to the state contest held in late April or early May. The 2009 state contest will be held on the Green River Community College campus in Auburn.

National History Day

Students who finish in first and second place at state in each category go on to the national contest, held in mid-June at the University of Maryland in College Park.