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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ref. 2453 February 15, 2005 The Road to National History Day Competition in Maryland Begins February 26 at NIACC
The Seventh Annual History Day in North Iowa will take place on Saturday, February 26, at North Iowa Area Community College. Students in grades 6 -12 will be the first in Iowa to participate in National History Day district competitions, with trips to the state and national contests on the line. The competition is free and open to the public. Young historians from CAL-Dows, Clear Lake, Hampton-Dumont, North Central, Northwood-Kensett, Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock and St. Ansgar will display their work in the Beem Center on the NIACC campus beginning at 9:00 a.m. History projects may be in one of four categories: papers, exhibits, performances and documentaries; each category has a junior division for sixth to eighth grade students and a senior division for freshmen to seniors in high school. Dr. Jeffrey Pilz, NIACC history instructor and District History Day organizer, said the event has grown by leaps and bounds each year in North Iowa. "The History Day program encourages students to become historians in their own right," Pilz said. "They find out about national and international historic events and often connect them to North Iowa. I'm supposed to be an expert and I learn more from these students than I can teach them. They are real experts in their fields." Sixty-eight students will display their efforts and be judged by teams consisting of local teachers, community members and NIACC students and staff. In an awards ceremony, scheduled for around 11 a.m., first and second place finishers will be acknowledged in each category and division and invited to compete at the state contest in May. Winners at the state level—much as last year's Senior Individual Performance contestant, Christopher Parcher from Northwood-Kensett—will move to the national contest in Bethesda Park, Maryland in June. #####
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