A team of documentary filmmakers from Northside Middle School in Columbus are among finalists in the National History Day in Indiana (NHDI) Contest sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society.
“D18: The Community Under the Highway” by Northside students Victoria Carter and Elijah Wright was one of two documentaries in the junior high group category selected for the state contest that will take place April 30 at Marian University in Indianapolis.
NHDI is a yearlong program dedicated to enhancing history education in Indiana’s schools. Students in grades four through 12 explore a historical subject that fits under the annual theme. This year’s theme is “Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.”
Students use their research to create a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance or website. To reach the 2022 NHDI State Contest, students must qualify at one of five regional virtual contests. Carter and Wright qualified at the South region contest on March 12.
Also qualifying at the South region contest in the individual junior high documentary category was Genevieve Laguna of Brown County Junior High for her documentary “The Trail of Tears: How One of the Largest Breakdowns of Diplomacy in America Led to Thousands of Lives Lost.”
NHDI is presented by the Rooker Family Foundation with support from the Vigran Family Foundation. For more information, visit www.indianahistory.org/historyday or call (317) 232-1882.
