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Peck Students Excel in National History Day Regional Competition
Twenty-seven Peck students competed at this year's National History Day (NHD) regional contest at Monmouth University. NHD’s core program is a competition that prompts students in grades 6-12 to conduct extensive research on their chosen topic and present their findings in a series of contest levels judged by educators and professional historians.
This year’s theme was “Turning Points in History.” All projects were thoroughly researched, written, designed, and constructed to prove a student-composed thesis statement.
“We want to applaud all 27 students for their hard work revising and improving their projects, adding to their annotated bibliographies, and writing process papers. Students in the exhibit category also had to present their projects to judges, who asked them questions about their projects and process. Peck is very proud of all of you,” says Jason Guss Upper School History Teacher and History Department Chair.
We are thrilled to announce that The Peck School has 12 projects moving forward to the NHD State competition in May:
Exhibits
- Logan Steffa, Aarav Shah, Ritt Sadrian: Hand Hygiene: A Turning Point in Medical History
- Arjun Wadhera: Intracranial Tumor Resection: a Turning Point in Brain Surgery
- Declan Weng: The Mariana Trench: A Turning Point in Underwater Exploration
- Thijs McCormick, Eric Jia: The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833
Websites
- Heidi Lüer: The Invention of Instrument Flying: A Turning Point in Innovation
- Jane Pagano: The Seneca Falls Convention: The Start of the Feminist Movement
- Grayson Materne: The Hollywood Ten: How Fear of Communism Affected Hollywood
- Jonah Braun: Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire: A turning point in the lives of the Mongol people
- Carter McMahon, Duke Honeker: The Ping Pong Diplomacy: A Turning Point for Relations with America and China
- Zanna Albertyn, Bobbi Bruno: The One Child Policy: A Turning Point in Chinese History
- Bennett Schwartz: Chinese Internet: A Turning Point in Technological History
- Giana DiPisa, Logan Lan, Melanie Muñoz: "Tear Down This Wall": A Turning Point in Berlin History
Congratulations to this impressive group of historians!
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