ODESSA STUDENT WINS TOP HONORS AT NATIONAL CONTEST
Launch the media gallery 1 playerWASHINGTON, D.C.—Hannah Scott of Odessa High School in Odessa, Missouri won 2nd place in the senior individual exhibit category at the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest on June 16, 2016. The work of Scott captured the attention of the National History Day Contest judges with an inspiring project titled, A City Under Siege: Delivering Hope One Flight at a Time on the Airbridge to Berlin.
More than 600,000 students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, and international schools in Central America, China, Korea, and South Asia created projects for the National History Day® Contest this year and less than 1% were judged worthy to attend the national finals at the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest, June 12-16. Students competed in five categories: documentaries, exhibits, papers, performances, and websites. Nearly 3,000 middle and high school students presented their work related to the 2016 theme, Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History.
“The National History Day Contest requires intensive research and analytical thinking skills,” said NHD Executive Director Dr. Cathy Gorn. “Each student involved in the competition spends countless hours deliberating, researching and editing, and traveling miles to present superb historical research. Hannah Scott should be proud of this accomplishment. It takes a truly remarkable project to receive an award at the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest.”
Founded in 1974, at Case Western Reserve University, National History Day® has grown from a contest of a few hundred students to a multi-national educational organization dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of history. More than half a million students, who are guided by more than 30,000 teachers, utilize the project-based learning framework that is central to the National History Day® Contest.
About National History Day: NHD is a non-profit education organization in College Park, MD. Established in 1974, NHD offers year-long academic programs that engage over half a million middle- and high-school students around the world annually in conducting original research on historical topics of interest. These research-based projects are entered into contests at the local and affiliate levels, where the top student projects have the opportunity to advance to the National Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park. NHD also seeks to improve the quality of history education by providing professional development opportunities and curriculum materials for educators. NHD is sponsored in part by Kenneth E. Behring, Patricia Behring, HISTORY®, Jostens, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Park Service, Southwest Airlines, the Joe Weider Foundation, and the WEM 2000 Foundation of the Dorsey & Whitney Foundation. For more information, visit nhd.org.
About National History Day in Missouri: Launched in 1980, National History Day in Missouri is the state affiliate of the National History Day educational program, which has half a million participants. Over 3,000 students compete in regional Missouri competitions, with 600 advancing to the state competition held on the University of Missouri campus. National History Day in Missouri is sponsored by the State Historical Society of Missouri, in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council. Visit: nhdmo.org.