PARSIPPANY — For the third consecutive year students from Central Middle School participated in the National History Day Club.
Every year over half a million middle and high-school students around the world conduct original research on historical topics of interest and compete with each other. Every year a new history theme is introduced.
This year’s theme is “Taking a Stand”. Students can work individually or with groups in creating a project of their choice. This year Central had 20 students compete at the regional competition at Kean University.
Eight of those students were chosen to compete at the State level competition that took place last week at William Paterson University.
There, two eighth graders, Victoria Taco and Eileen Zhang were chosen to compete in Washington DC this June for the National Competition.
They have conducted research on Theodora and how she took a stand for herself and women during the Byzantium Empire. Throughout their research Victoria and Eileen have also conducted an interview with a professor from Kean University who teaches about the Byzantium Empire.
Ultimately, they have worked many hours on their project in which they competed against hundreds of other middle school students throughout NJ!
Essentially these two Parsippany students will be representing the entire state of NJ for the junior group exhibit category. This past Wednesday, these two finalists had the opportunity to attend the “winners circle” meeting where they received the judges feedback and guidance on how to improve their project, process paper, and annotated bibliography for the National competition in June.
Victoria and Eileen will be traveling to the national completion with their families. They are very excited and nervous for this new journey. In the meantime, they will be continuing to improve their project by using the judges feedback.
The advisors and students would like to thank the Parsippany Education Foundation (PEF) for the grant money received at the beginning of the school year to buy supplies and pay for the student’s registration to the regional, state, and national competitions. They would also like to thank Parsippany transportation for providing transportation to the regional and state competitions for these students.
