Three Dons Excel at 2023 National History Day Contest
The 2023 contest theme was Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas. After placing first in the Maryland state competition in May, Isaac, Daniel, and Zion presented their performance on stage at the National History Day Contest held in June in College Park, MD. These three Dons joined more than half a million students globally who completed projects in one of five categories: documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, or website.
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“Nearly half a million students competed in National History Day this year at the local and affiliate levels, so to make it to the National Contest is a remarkable achievement,” said NHD Executive Director Dr. Cathy Gorn. “These students spent months researching primary and secondary sources, analyzing their topic’s significance in history, and communicating their ideas in creative formats, and they were guided by gifted history teachers.”
The National History Day competition involves more than 3,000 students in the final stage. Over a half-million students participate at the school, district, state, and national levels. Competitors traveled to College Park from all 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and international schools in China, Korea, and South Asia.
About National History Day® (NHD): NHD is a non-profit organization based in College Park, Maryland, which seeks to improve the teaching and learning of history. The National History Day Contest was established in 1974 and currently engages more than half a million students every year in conducting original research on historical topics of interest. Students present their research as a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, or website. Projects compete first at the local and affiliate levels, where the top entries are invited to the National Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park. NHD is sponsored in part by National Endowment for the Humanities, World Education Foundation, Patricia Behring Foundation, 400 Years of African American History Commission, History Channel, Pritzker Military Foundation, The Better Angels Society, National Park Service, Dr. Scholl Foundation, History NET, Doughboy Foundation, Tom Lauer, Skehan Communications. For more information, visit nhd.org.
