By Annie Brown
Four Irvine schools will send two team and three individual student projects to the national Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest at University of Maryland at College Park, from June 14-18. National History Day, is a non-profit education organization dedicated to engaging middle- and high-school students around the world in conducting original research on historical topics of interest. The National History Day Contest in Maryland is the final stage in a series of contests at the county and state levels.
To qualify for the national competition, Irvine students competed against more than 1,000 students from 25 counties at the state competition in early May. Irvine projects moving on to the national competition are:
Junior Individual Exhibit
- Augustus Caesar: His Leadership Through an Empire and Legacy of its Fall
- Lakeside Middle School
- Alina Guo
- Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Lakeside Middle School
- Morgan Kopecky
Junior Group Documentary
- Henry Ford
- Sierra Vista Middle School
- Michelle Kroll and Frances Kroll
Junior Individual Website
- Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Lamp
- Jeffrey Trail Middle School
- Mulan Homo
Junior Historical Paper
- Harry Truman: A Leadership and Legacy in the Truman Doctrine
- Sierra Vista Middle School
- Miranda Wu
Senior Group Documentary
- The Legacy of Ed Sullivan: Bringing the Civil Rights Movement into America’s Living Room
- Woodbridge …read more
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