A journey through time has netted several Grayson County High School students top honors at the state National History Day (NHD) event held at the University of Kentucky over the weekend.
Each year NHD, now in its 50th year, has a different theme that students must link to their topics, and this year’s theme was “Turning Point.” When creating a project, students must select one of five National History Day competition categories: documentary, exhibit, historical paper, performance, or website.
For GCHS, Corbin Logsdon and Max Matthews earned second place in the Group Presentation category for their performance titled, “Woman’s Rights Movement.” They now advance to the national competition in June in Washington, D.C.
The team of Kennedy Miller, Ella Narvaez, Hunter Parks, and Emmaleigh Pennington won third place in Group Documentary for “The March to Montgomery.” The team was also runner-up for the Outstanding African American History Award.
Daniel Ratley earned a third-place finish for his paper, “Billboard Regulation and the Highway Beautification Act: A Turning Point in History Navigating Aesthetics, Safety, and the First Amendment.”
Students were coached/sponsored by GCHS teacher Dustin Cannon’s Advanced Placement U.S. History class, or Melinda Baum and the Junior Historical Society club.
The students previously competed at regionals where they earned a berth at state and have now either advanced to nationals outright or as potential alternates, the school district said.
National placement brings the opportunity to earn scholarship money and/or cash prizes.
Next school year, the competition’s theme will be “Rights and Responsibilities.”
By Ken Howlett, News Director and Grayson County Schools
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
