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VIRGINIA STUDENTS MAKE HISTORY: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY AWARDS TWO SCHOLARSHIPS
By Paul Michel and Mohammad Rasool, 12th grade students from Monticello High School in Charlottesville, Virginia
This is an article from 2007 winter edition of the Newsletter.

The past five years of NHD have been an adventure that we never could have imagined when we began back in seventh grade. That first year, we were so proud of ourselves. That following year, 2004, we won a bronze medal for our junior performance entry on school integration in Charlottesville. The medal was nice, but what was even better was the feeling that, along with the other members of the team, we had visited a piece of history more intimately than we had thought possible. Our personal interviews with those who had lived through school segregation provided moments we would never forget. We were hooked on the history.

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IT'S NOT JUST A DAY...IT'S AN EXPERIENCE!
By Larry Rivers, 11th grade student from Leon High School in Tallahassee, Florida
This is an article from 1999 summer edition of the Newsletter.

My path to reaping the benefits of NHD began in 1994, when I was in sixth grade. My first NHD project failed to place at the district contest and made me resolve to take my writing efforts more seriously the next time by starting my research much earlier. I focused my next entry on the flood of Haitian refugees who were seeking economic and political asylum in the United States. My paper won second at both the district and state levels, earning me a berth at the national competition. I didn't place at nationals. After looking at my judging sheets, I saw why. While the judges said they liked my effort, my discussion and conclusions were far too superficial. They encouraged me to venture beyond a simple summary of the various events, and instead, to concentrate on finding the more extensive impact and significance of my topic.

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