Hundreds of students from throughout Colorado will be on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus to present a wide array of projects, many a year in the making, during the 22nd annual Colorado History Day.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ 500 students in grades six through 12 will compete in the event on Saturday, April 26, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the CU-Boulder campus. The winners will move on to the National History Day competition in June.
The theme of this year's competition is "Rights and Responsibilities in History."
"Colorado History Day is part of the largest humanities education program in the country, and allows students from all over the state to show off projects they have been working on since the school year began," said Nancy Brown, Colorado History Day state coordinator and a CU-Boulder doctoral student.
Competing students have prepared projects in one of four categories - papers, media (documentaries and multimedia), exhibits and performance - all expounding on the rights and responsibilities theme. In 2001, Colorado became the first state to have students present projects in Spanish, an option that is being continued this year.
Titles of some of this year's entries include "Women's Rights in the Middle East," "Colorado Springs Water Rights: Over a Century of Debate," "Protesting in America: The Responsibility to Protect our Rights," and "Watching the Fire Burn: United States Neutrality at the Dawn of World War II."
Student exhibits will be open for public viewing in the University Memorial Center Ballroom from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. The awards ceremony will begin at 4 p.m., also in the ballroom.
Students who win at the state level will go to the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland at College Park June 15-19 to compete with students throughout the nation.
CU-Boulder's history department has been coordinating Colorado History Day since 1984. The program debuted in 1981 as a small contest with fewer than 100 student participants.
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