NHD

Welcome to the NHD section of my blog! Everything that is tagged NHD will be an update on my NHD project. National History Day. National History Day is a competition in which students do primary and secondary research and then translate that research into a poster board, a website, a paper, a performance, or a documentary. There are two divisions: Junior (For Junior High) and Senior (For high school students).  The last two years, my friend William Scheopner and I have done a group documentary. The first year, we made a documentary about the fight to turn Nebraska’s legislature into a unicameral. We won Districts and State and proceeded to Nationals in Washington D.C. but we didn’t make it to Finals. In the second year, we made a documentary about Cyrus McCormick’s reaper, the ancestor of the combine. We won Districts, State and as well as special award from the Great Plains association. We went on to Nationals in Washington. We managed to make it to finals. The finals judges deemed us the best and we won the whole Junior Group Documentary category! This year William and I are already beginning work on our topic: The Homestead Act of 1862.

JM