So, you can imagine the pure astonishment at the accomplishments of two seventh graders who managed to scrape together a project in a matter of weeks for regional and then two days before the state competition REDO EVERYTHING. Leave it to seventh graders to wait until the last minute!
Sunday morning saw Ava, Ryan, myself, along with their families, journey to Minneapolis for the State History Day Competition held at Coffmann Union, University of Minnesota-TC. We arrived in the midst of hustle and bustle as the union was full of students setting up projects, parents watching students set up projects and officials evaluating those projects. Ava and Ryan were both judged at 11 am. Judging for the exhibit category includes a 5-10 minute conversation with a pair of judges regarding the process of their research. Ava and Ryan felt much less intimidated this time around.
Ava and Ryan with their new boards
The day was quite long as we arrived around 10:15 am and finally left at 7 pm. The long gaps in the schedule allowed us to take in all the other wonderful work students of Minnesota completed. As a teacher, it is truly amazing seeing what these kids came up with! We took a few pictures of different exhibits for motivation for next year. It should be mentioned that there were incredible performances, documentaries, papers and websites as well.
Click to view larger imageOur day ended at Williams Arena with a lengthy awards ceremony. While Ava and Ryan did not advance to nationals (Only 2 out of 88 in their fields did!) they had an incredible day and should be proud of their accomplishments. We're already anticipating next year's project!
Leah and Maddie also participated in History Day completing projects in the website category. Here they are with their awesome certificates of achievement!
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