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Albany Student Presents on NHD at Educator Conference

Brendan Blendell, a Junior at the Doane Stuart School in Albany, was invited to present a scholarly paper at the annual meeting of the the Association of Gifted and Talented Education in New York. The conference was held in October 2008 at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

The title of paper and presentation was: "National History Day as a Model Program for Whole School Enrichment".

In his presentation, Brendan (who is pictured above with State Senator James Seward at the 2007 New York State History Day contest) gave an overview of the National History Day program. He then addressed how it links to Sternberg's multiple intelligence and Renzulli's three-ring model of giftedness theories. He demonstrated that National History Day is a model program for whole school enrichment. He ended by showing his 2008 NHD entry, which won first place at the Capital Region competition, Tin Soldiers and Nixon Comin': Anti-War Songs of the 1960s.