{"id":25919,"date":"2024-04-25T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=25919"},"modified":"2024-05-22T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:41:58","slug":"history-day-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2024\/04\/25\/history-day-success\/","title":{"rendered":"History Day Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25920 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Historywp.jpg\" alt=\"History\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/> Congratulations to tenth graders Nom-Ujin Byambatsogt and Cosmo Vanzyl, who participated in the annual History Day state competition over the weekend! Out of hundreds of submissions, Cosmo received fourth place and Nom-Ujin received seventh! Picking a different theme each year, this edition of History Day settled on &#8220;Turning Points in History,&#8221; where students nationwide select a topic to research. Following the decision on the subject, students entering the event must pick different formats, including a 1500-2500-word research paper, a 500-word exhibit, a 10-minute documentary, a website, or a 10-minute performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have all my tenth-grade students write the research paper in the fall, and they have the option of whether or not they want to participate in the History Day competition,&#8221; said Summer McCall, teacher and longtime supporter of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Deciding to enter and advancing to state on April 20, Cosmo and Nom-Ujin were interviewed by four judges about each of their papers before hearing about their top-10 placements. Despite barely missing out on trips to nationals, with only the top two moving on, McCall had some encouraging words for what Cosmo and Nom-Ujin had accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The organizers at History Day said the kids competing at the competition represented the top six percent of the competitors in the state,&#8221; McCall said. &#8220;Super cool and so fun to represent our school in that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to tenth graders Nom-Ujin Byambatsogt and Cosmo Vanzyl, who participated in the annual History Day state competition over the weekend! Out of hundreds of submissions, Cosmo received fourth place and Nom-Ujin received seventh! Picking a different theme each year, this edition of History Day settled on &#8220;Turning Points in History,&#8221; where students nationwide select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":25921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,9,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-homepage","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25922,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions\/25922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}