MSSU to hold History Day competition March 4

(From Southern News Service)

The annual Region 6 History Day competition is set for Friday, March 4, at Missouri Southern State University.

Presented by the Social Sciences Department, the theme for the 2022 event is “Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, and Consequences.” It will be held in-person, following a virtual contest in 2021 due to the COVID pandemic.

 

The opening ceremony will be held at 8:30 a.m. in Webster Hall’s Corley Auditorium. The awards ceremony is planned for approximately 3:30 p.m. in the same location.

The public is invited to view exhibits starting at 9 a.m. in Billingsly Student Center’s Connor Ballroom.

History Day is a competition for middle- and high-school students who carry out research projects and present their work as papers, websites, exhibits, documentaries, and performances. This year, there are 128 students participating from a dozen area schools.

The projects will be judged by Social Sciences faculty members, alumni and volunteers from the community.

The top three finishers in each category will compete in the virtual State History Day Contest hosted by the State Historical Society of Missouri and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Those who succeed at that level can compete at the national contest hosted by the University of Maryland.



For more information, contact Dr. Bill Fischer, associate professor of history, at Fischer-@mssu.edu.