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Michigan History Day competition held at St. Francis de Sales School

Courtesy photo From left, Brynn Santi, Christian Lawrence, Daniel Michalik, and Lucas Gould, all placed in the Junior Division Paper Category.

MANISTIQUE — Recently third through eigth grade students at St. Francis de Sales participated in the school’s 4th Annual Michigan History Day competition. History Day is an annual academic competition that affords each student the chance to explore issues, ideas, people, and events in history that he/she finds interesting. After choosing a topic that fits with the yearly theme, with this year’s theme being “Taking a Stand in History,” the students must decide on a category to present the material. Students can present original dramatic performances, documentaries, websites, research papers, or exhibits. Upon choosing the topic and category the students then begin researching, organizing the information, developing a thesis, perfecting a process paper, and finishing with an annotated bibliography.

Michigan History Day, which is affiliated with National History Day, is a program of the Historical Society of Michigan and has four competition levels: (1) School Competition – this competition recently took place at St. Francis School (2) District Competition – Michigan is divided into 11 districts. The finalists at the school competition move on to the District 11 competition (3) State Competition – The top three entries in each category at the district competition get to move on to the state competition; this year the state competition is being held at Bay City Central High School on April 29 (4) National Competition – The top two entries in each category at the state level will have the opportunity to compete at the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland-College Park near Washington, D.C.

St. Francis de Sales School will be sending six students to the state competition in Bay City this year. First place in the exhibit category was Madison Zellar with her project on the Children’s Crusade. Second place was Carson Sprader with his project on Jackie Robinson, and third place was Olivia Brazda presenting Princess Dianna. The honorable mentions were Delaney Zellar explaining the Silver Springs Monkey Case, Kaylee Hoholik with her project on Maximillian Kolbe, Paige Rochefort depicting Susan B. Anthony, and Madison Rochefort and her project on Juliette Gordon Lowe. In the paper category the top three students were: first place Lucas Gould with his paper on Woodrow Wilson, second place Daniel Michalik and his project on the Ku Klux Klan, and third place Brynn Santi depicting the Black Panthers. The honorable mention in the paper category was Christian Lawrence and his paper on Ronald Reagan.

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