DORSET — Students in Long Trail School’s Advanced American History history class had an exciting time at Vermont National History Day in Montpelier on April 7. Thirteen 10th graders participated in the Senior Division of the competition. This year’s theme was Conflict and Compromise in History.
In the paper category, Nessia Crispe won third place while Jeremy Linfield received first place for his essay, The Fight for National Freedom: The Establishment of Israel as an Engine for Conflict and Compromise. For the individual website category,Galileo, the Church, and the Struggle for Science, submitted by Ben Boggio, won first place.
For individual exhibits, Kathryn Dugan won third place and Gretchen Hammell’s French Impressionism, 1872-92, received second place.
In group exhibits, Lang Quail and Oisin Harrington came in first with A Destructive Compromise. In addition to qualifying for nationals, this duo won the International Studies Award, which included a monetary prize. Quail and Harrington joined Linfield, Boggio and Hammell as five LTS students invited to compete at the National History Day competition on June 10-14 at the University of Maryland, College Park. Sean Bottomms, Nolan Hilliard, Chaeli Knapp-Wilson, Ben Spiro, Jae VanDerWielen, and Ryan Wang also competed with high-quality presentations.
LTS Social Studies Department Chair Tess Kahn commented, “This type of research project allows students to investigate a topic they are passionate about while building their research and analysis skills. National History Day requires meticulous collection and analysis of primary and secondary sources which engages students in the process of being an historian.”
Kahn was awarded the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Teacher Award and received a free History Exploration Visit for one class to the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site.
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