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Oklahoma History Day Students Return with Awards

2012 National History Day Contest

by Jason Harris, Director of Education

Student participants from Oklahoma made their way to the University of Maryland, College Park, for the 2012 National History Day Contest that was held June 10-14. This year sixty-six national qualifying students and twenty-two teachers attended the national contest with state coordinator, Jason Harris.

Each year more than 600,000 students participate in History Day contests across the country. Students in the 6th - 12th grades compete by creating presentations that bring primary-source research to life through exhibits, documentaries,

Oklahoma Students at 2012 National History Day

performances, websites, and research papers. In Oklahoma, students compete at the district level first before advancing to Oklahoma City for the State History Day Contest held at the Oklahoma History Center. First and Second place winners in each category advance from the state contest to the National finals each year. This year's medal winners are:

3rd place in Jr. Group Performance: 

Brock Hutchison, Donivan Rogers, and Hannah Hood from Canton Elementary Schools for their performance, 6 Million Tons: Earths Revolt That Inspired Reform.

Best Colonial or American Revolution Project presented by Colonial Williamsburg: 

Caroline Yaeger from Jenks Middle School for her exhibit, Shays' Rebellion: Revolution to Constitution.

Outstanding State Entry in the Junior Division: 

Josh Gallegor and Preston Myer from Sequoyah Middle School for their group website The Revolution, Reaction, Result of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.

Outstanding State Entry in the Senior Division: 

Sidra Mesiya, Nida Safdar, Maryam Mian, Uzma Sandhu, and Layan Salous from Mercy School Institute for their group website, The Heartbeat Heard Around the World: The First Human Heart Transplant.

Best Irish or Irish-American History: 

Isaac Sanderson, Jack Sanderson, and Donetta Sessions from Canton High School for their group performance, Revolution in Ireland: The Easter Rising of 1916.

Salute for Freedom Award: 

Natalie Haworth from Weatherford High School for her exhibit Flying for Freedom.

Between the Census Years: Let your Fingers

do the Walking - Lunch & Learn

July 25, 2012  11:30am

Oklahoma History Center

Oklahoma City, OK

The OHS Research Center presents a new Lunch & Learn Lecture on July 25th.  Registration is $10 and lunch is included.

Debra Osborne Spindle, OHS Research Division Librarian, will present "Between the Census Years, Let your Fingers do the Walking."  City directories are way more than a telephone directory.  Published for more than city-dwellers, these directories are a rich resource for tracking ancestors year by year, identifying their work and work place, spouses, addresses, and more.  Learn how to find these gems, both online and in print.

To register for this contact the Research Center at (405)522-5225.