Mount Vernon HS Students Earn Top Honors in National History Day District Competition

Mount Vernon High School hosted the District 5 National History Day competition on March 2.

National History Day is an academic program where students participate at the school, district, state, and national levels. Students research a unique topic based on the given theme and create a group or individual project in the following categories: Website, Paper, Documentary, Exhibit, and Performance. Projects are judged on historical quality as well as overall presentation. This year's theme is Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events.

The following Mount Vernon High School students won their divisions.

• Brianna Ragland - First Place: Individual Exhibit (The Black Panther Movement)
• Ashley Barrow -Second Place: Individual Exhibit (Arthur Ashe - Breaking the Color Barrier)
• Dara Webb -Second Place: Individual Documentary (The Great Sioux War)
• Roncs Etame-Ese, Diego Castro, Victoria Brightwell- Second Place: Group Website (JFK’s Assassination and Changes in Presidential Security)

These students will attend the Virginia State History Day competition on April 20 in Williamsburg, Virginia.

More than 200 high school and middle school students participated in the District 5 contest, representing 14 different counties throughout Northern Virginia.