Four Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts students have earned the opportunity to compete at the National History Day national competition.
National History Day is an educational, nonprofit organization that promotes history and civics education. The competition is open to middle- and high-school students in five categories: papers, exhibits, performances, documentaries and websites. The categories are divided into junior and senior divisions along with individual and group divisions.
Students who earned recognition at the state National History Day competition on April 5 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway include:
• The team of Nakoa Beattie of Eureka Springs and Tristan Henson of Maumelle, first place, Senior Group Website;
• Makenna Kutzschebauch of Benton, first place, Senior Individual Documentary; and
• Emily Lin of Little Rock, second place, Senior Individual Website.
Their state contest performances qualified them for the national competition, which is scheduled for June 8-12 at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. Nearly 3,000 students with their families and teachers from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Island, Department of Defense Schools in the Atlantic and international schools are expected to compete in the national competition.
Eight ASMSA students qualified for the state competition after competing in the regional competition in March. ASMSA competes in the Central Region, which includes Hot Springs, Benton, Bryant and Little Rock area schools. Students who also competed at the state competition were Ridgely Bond of Marion, Violet Dailey of Sherwood, Phoenix Dunkley of Little Rock and Lisandro Ramos of Little Rock.