Two Danbury students to head to national history competition

Westside students earned second place spot in state event

Westside Middle School Academy students Maame Obeng and Camilly Aguilar are heading to the National History Day national competition in June.

The two students came in second place at the state National History Day competition in April.
In February, at the Westside middle school, 100 seventh-grade students in the Global Studies program presented topics from propaganda in the Cold War to Civil Rights literature, and Andy Warhol and pop art. There were 65 exhibits in all, including documentaries and websites focusing on the changes in society in the 1950s through the 1980s.

National History Day began in 1974 on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. Schools all over the country participate in the event; the year’s theme is “Exploration, Encounter and Exchange in History.”

The History Day project has been a major focus seventh-grade Global Studies academy as it combines research, reading, writing, and technology skills with historical inquiry. This project allowed students to take the theme and develop projects that relate not only to the national theme but the academy’s subthemes (choices available through National History Day Project) of Pop Art: The Exchange of Consumerism and Culture and Civil Rights Stories.

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