El Paso History Day
El Paso History Day is an annual event sponsored by the Department of History and the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso. It serves as the regional qualifying contest for Texas History Day in Austin, which in turn sends its winners to National History Day in Washington D.C. History Day is an educational program devoted to improving the teaching and learning of history in American middle schools and high schools. It is designed to provide a meaningful and exciting process whereby students can study historical ideas, issues, people, and events by engaging in project based learning and research.
The categories which students may enter as an individual or a group are:
Exhibits—individual and group entries
Documentaries—individual and group entries
Performances—individual and group entries
Interpretive Web Sites—one combined individual and group competition
Papers—individual entries only
The thirteenth annual El Paso History Day will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2010, on the UTEP campus. The theme for the 2010 contest is “Innovation in History: Impact and Change.” In 2009 there were a record number of 146 entries from 276 students. Information and photos from previous years’ contests is available on the UTEP Department of History’s web page under “History Day—Archives & Photos.”
For further information about History Day, contact the local director, Dr. Charles H. Martin, at mcharles@utep.edu or visit the web sites for Texas History Day and National History Day or use the above links to those sites.