Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride was a project by seventh-graders at the HF-L Middle School History Fair. Photo by Donna MacKenzie
Out of the 35 projects by eighth-graders at the Honeoye Falls-Lima Middle School History Fair in February, 15 advanced to the regional competition in early March at Genesee Country Village and Museum and six went to the state competition on April 14. One group will be moving on to the national competition in June.
The theme of the National History Day competition was Turning Points in History.
Projects featured at the Middle School History Fair were The First Women’s Rights Convention/Women Suffrage, American Sign Language, Flappers and the New Women, Space Shuttle Era, Formation of the Girl Scouts, Women in Law, Gay Marriage Rights and Laws, The Golden Age of Hollywood, The Challenger Explosion, Rosie the Riveter and World War II, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Stonewall Protests, Innovations of the Automobile, The Beginnings of the FBI and the FBI’s Involvement in the Osage Murder Trials, Taylor Swift and the Music Industry, Pearl Harbor, Baseball Steroid Era, September 11, 2001, Lewis Hines and Child Labor Laws, Wright Brothers, Malcolm X, Zimmermann Telegram, Morse Code, Manhattan Project, Battle of Iwo Jima, Apollo 11, Adolf Hitler and Concentration Camps, Space Race, Dropping of the Atomic Bomb, History of the AK-47, The Iran Hostage Crisis, Vietnam War Rock Music, Battle of Midway, Museum of Play and Women’s Rights Movement.
The 15 projects which went to the regional competition were The First Women’s Rights Convention/Women’s Suffrage, American Sign Language, Flappers and the New Women, Space Shuttle Era, Formation of the Girl Scouts, Women in Law, Gay Marriage Rights and Laws, The Golden Age of Hollywood, The Challenger Explosion, Rosie the Riveter and World War II, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Stonewall Protests, Innovations of the Automobile, The Beginnings of the FBI and the FBI’s Involvement in the Osage Murder Trials and Taylor Swift and the Music Industry.
“We had some really strong girls this year who did a number of projects on women’s issues or minority issues,” Middle School social studies teacher Zachary Clarry said.
The six projects which were in the state competition on April 14 at SUNY Oneonta were The Beginnings of the FBI and the FBI’s Involvement in the Osage Murder Trials by EC Corey and Siobhan Neenan, The Stonewall Protests by Elliott Magorka and Madelyn Lloyd, Innovations of the Automobile by Jacob Moscicki and James Winship, Flappers and the New Women by Lilly Loewenguth, Madelyn Guckian and Nyla Armbruster, The Formation of the Girl Scouts by Abigail Flagg and Lydia Borgesen and Gay Marriage Laws and Rights by Smith Schafer, Sadie Guckienbiehl, Lilly Caffrey and Will Glanville.
The project chosen to move on to the national competition is Gay Marriage Laws and Rights, which was a performance.
“This is the first time in seven years that we will have a group going to the nationals,” Clarry said. “They will be competing in June at the University of Maryland College Park campus against students from all 50 states, the territories, foreign military bases and embassy schools around the world.
In addition to the eighth-grade projects for the National History Day competition, the HF-L Middle School seventh-graders did projects on The American Revolution.
