DICKINSON — Dickinson State College (DSU) was abuzz with pleasure and scholarly enthusiasm on March 13 because it hosted the Western Regional Contest for Nationwide Historical past Day in North Dakota. This prestigious annual occasion, held within the college’s Pupil Heart Ballroom, introduced collectively younger historians from Hope Christian Academy, Trinity Excessive Faculty, Hettinger Public Faculty, Dickinson Excessive Faculty, Bowman County Excessive Faculty, Beulah Public Colleges, Killdeer Excessive Faculty, Seashore Excessive Faculty, South Coronary heart Faculty and Scranton Public Faculty, who offered a various array of analysis initiatives.

Below this 12 months’s theme, “Turning Factors in Historical past,” individuals delved into important historic moments and figures, with subjects starting from the cultural impacts of Native American boarding faculties in North Dakota, to the strategic significance of the Spanish American Warfare. The initiatives showcased not solely the scholars’ deep engagement with their chosen topics, but in addition their means to attach native and nationwide histories to broader historic narratives.

Native educators and volunteers, together with DSU school and college students, performed a vital position within the occasion’s success, providing assist and steering to the younger individuals.

“This system is an effective way for teenagers to study extra in regards to the historical past of not solely North Dakota however the world,” Alex Bibb, a DSU scholar and volunteer choose, stated highlighting the tutorial worth of the competition.

College students competed in numerous classes, together with particular person and group reveals, with the purpose of advancing to the state contest scheduled for April 17 on the North Dakota Heritage Heart & State Museum in Bismarck. The joy was palpable as individuals eagerly awaited the announcement of those that would transfer on to the subsequent stage of competitors.

Among the many standout initiatives from Dickinson Center Faculty, sponsored by Alyssa Wagner, have been insightful examinations of Yellowstone Nationwide Park’s conservation legacy, the advanced historical past of Native American boarding faculties and the transformative impression of the Homestead Act. Trinity Elementary, underneath the sponsorship of Tina Meyer, contributed an in depth exploration of the Marquis de Mores and the cruel North Dakota winter of 1886.

Dr. Jeff Wells, Dennis and Vaune Johnson Endowed Chair in U.S. Historical past at DSU, expressed gratitude for the continued partnership with the State Historic Society of North Dakota.

“I am additionally grateful for the volunteers and assist we get from throughout campus and the neighborhood to make this occasion potential,” Wells stated, emphasizing the collective effort behind the competition’s group.

Along with the competitors, the occasion featured academic workshops and displays. William Hansard, outreach coordinator for the Theodore Roosevelt Heart at DSU, supplied insights into Theodore Roosevelt’s contributions as a author and historian, providing college students recommendations on leveraging main sources for his or her initiatives.

The competition not solely served as a platform for college kids to showcase their educational expertise, but in addition as a testomony to the significance of historical past in understanding the current and shaping the long run.

Bob Fuhrman, director of the Dickinson Museum Heart, and Jessica Stratton, Joachim Museum assortment supervisor, led the judging panel, assisted by DSU college students. Their experience and suggestions have been invaluable to the individuals, lots of whom expressed a newfound appreciation for historic analysis and evaluation.

Trying forward, first and second-place winners on the state contest may have the chance to compete on the nationwide stage in June, on the College of Maryland, Faculty Park. This development underscores the competition’s position in fostering a deep engagement with historical past amongst younger learners.

College students, academics, or mother and father curious about taking part in subsequent 12 months’s contest are inspired to succeed in out to Madison Milbrath, the training outreach coordinator on the State Historic Society of North Dakota.

Air Trajectory
1^st– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
2^nd– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
3^rd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
4^th– Hope Christian Academy- 16B Blue
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue

Anatomy and Physiology
1^st– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
2^nd– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
3^rd– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
6^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White

Can’t Choose a Energy
1^st– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
2^nd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
3^rd– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
4^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS

Codebusters
1^st – Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
2^nd – Dickinson Center Faculty- 38 DMS Blue

Ecology
1^st– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
2^nd– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
3^rd– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 6B Cowboys
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
6^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White

Quick Details
1^st– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
2^nd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
3^rd– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
4^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
6^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B

Forestry
1^st– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
2^nd– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
3^rd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
5^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
6^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS

Fossils
1^st– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
2^nd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
3^rd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
4^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White

Microbe Mission
1^st– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
2^nd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
3^rd– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
5^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 6B Cowboys
6^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS

Optics
1^st– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
2^nd– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
3^rd– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
6^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 6B Cowboys

Tower
1^st– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
2^nd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
3^rd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
4^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 6B Cowboys
5^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
6^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B

Wheeled Car
1^st– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
2^nd– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 6B Cowboys
3^rd– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
4^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White

Write It Do It
1^st– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
2^nd– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
3^rd– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
4^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
5^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
6^th– Dickinson Center Faculty- 38 DMS Blue

Total Crew Outcomes
1^st– Hope Christian Academy-16B Blue
2^nd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 19B White
3^rd– Beulah Public Colleges- 5B BMS
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 14B Blue
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 15B White
6^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
7^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 6B Cowboys
8^th– Dickinson Center Faculty- 38 DMS Blue

Air Trajectory
1^st– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
2^nd– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
3^rd– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 9C White
4^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys
5^th– Seashore Excessive Faculty- 11C Buccaneers

Anatomy and Physiology
1^st– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
2^nd– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS
3^rd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
4^th– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
5^th– Scranton Public Faculty- 12C Miners
6^th– Seashore Excessive Faculty- 11C Buccaneers

Chemistry Lab
1^st– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
2^nd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
3^rd– NA
4^th– Seashore Public Colleges- 4C BHS
5^th– South Coronary heart Faculty- 2C Eagles
6^th– Seashore Excessive Faculty- 11C Buccaneers

Codebusters
1^st– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
2^nd– Scranton Public Faculty- 12C Miners
3^rd– Seashore Excessive Faculty- 11C Buccaneers
4^th– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
5^th– NA
6^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS

Ecology
1^st– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
2^nd– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys
3^rd– South Coronary heart Faculty- 2C Eagles
4^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
5^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
6^th– Seashore Excessive Faculty- 11C Buccaneers

Fermi Questions
1^st– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
2^nd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
3^rd– South Coronary heart Faculty- 2C Eagles
4^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
5^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS
6^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B

Forestry
1^st– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
2^nd– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
3^rd– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS
4^th– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
5^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
6^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson

Fossils
1^st– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
2^nd– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
3^rd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
4^th– Scranton Public Faculty- 12C Miners
5^th– NA
6^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys

Microbe Mission
1^st– Scranton Public Faculty- 12C Miners
2^nd– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
3^rd– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
4^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
5^th– Seashore Excessive Faculty- 11C Buccaneers
6^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys

Optics
1^st– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
2^nd– South Coronary heart Faculty- 2C Eagles
3^rd– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
5^th– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
6^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS

Scrambler
1^st– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 8B
2^nd– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS
3^rd– Scranton Public Faculty- 12C Miners
4^th– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
5^th– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
6^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys

Tower
1^st– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
2^nd– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys
3^rd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
4^th– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
5^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS
6^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 9C White

Write It Do It
1^st– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 9C White
2^nd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
3^rd– South Coronary heart Faculty- 2C Eagles
4^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys
5^th– Scranton Public Faculty- 12C Miners
6^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS

Total Crew Outcomes
1^st– Hope Christian Academy- 17C White
2^nd– Trinity Excessive Faculty- 18C Crimson
3^rd– Hettinger Public Faculty- 13C
4^th– Dickinson Hich Faculty- 1C DHS Nerd White
5^th– Bowman County Excessive Faculty- 9C White
6^th– Beulah Public Colleges- 4C BHS
7^th– Killdeer Excessive Faculty- 7C Cowboys
8^th– Seashore Excessive Faculty- 11C Buccaneers
9^th– South Coronary heart Faculty- 2C Eagles
10^th– Scranton Public Faculty- 12C Miners

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