Middle and high school students explore barrier-breaking moments in Guam’s history for MARC competition
Middle and high school students explore barrier-breaking moments in Guam’s history for MARC competition
Middle and high school students explore barrier-breaking moments in Guam’s history for MARC competition
6/30/2020
Students explore barrier-breaking moments in Guam’s history in UOG competition
A total of 80 middle and high school student research projects explored barrier-breaking people and events in Guam’s history for this year’s Guam History Day competition, which took place from May 15 to June 9, 2020. Sixteen projects took first-place prizes.
Hosted by the University of Guam Micronesian Area Research Center, the Guam History Day competition is a year-long historical research program that challenges students to develop their perspectives of Guam’s history.
“The students who competed not only interpreted the theme in dynamic ways, they also rose to the challenge of shifting from a traditional competition to a virtual one,” said Guam State Coordinator LaVonne Guerrero-Meno.
The competition was held virtually for the first time due to the pandemic. Adhering to the theme “Breaking Barriers in Guam’s History,” students electronically presented their research in the form of a research paper, documentary, exhibit, performance, or website.
The projects were judged by a panel of 35 community judges — including teachers, UOG faculty, business professionals, and representatives from Guampedia and Guam Preservation Trust — on historic quality and accuracy, adherence to the theme, and project guidelines.
“MARC appreciates the community-wide effort it took to host this year’s competition,” Guerrero-Meno said.
While the students with the highest scoring projects typically go to the University of Maryland in Washington, D.C., to represent Guam at the National History Day competition, this year’s first-place winners instead received laptops and iPads courtesy of Takagi and Associates Inc., South Pacific Petroleum Corp., GTA, Guam Preservation Trust, and UOG’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
“While the island was concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic, UOG MARC was focused on getting this competition underway and giving the students their deserved recognition, which is truly an awesome thing they did,” said Mary Williams, teacher and coordinator at Andersen Middle School.
Guam History Day 2020 Winners
|
Category |
High School |
Middle School |
|---|---|---|
|
Research Paper |
|
|
|
Documentary, Individual |
|
|
|
Documentary, Group |
|
|
|
Exhibit, Individual |
|
|
|
Exhibit, Group |
|
|
|
Performance, Individual |
|
|
|
Performance, Group |
|
|
|
Website, Individual |
|
|
|
Website, Group |
|
|