Brown Meets with National History Day Student Finalists

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) met with six middle school students from Hamilton County competing in the final round of National History Day (NHD).  Having won the Ohio statewide competition earlier this year, the students are participating in the national contest held at the University of Maryland, College Park. All six students, Shadow Curley, Hannah Himmbelbauer, Asa Larson, Brittany Wells, Sidney Berger, and Carl Lewandowski, attend Mercy Montessori in Cincinnati. 

“Ohio’s schools, like Mercy Montessori, equip our future generation of leaders with the skills they will need to succeed in the future” Sen. Brown said. “These middle school students should be proud of their history projects and how far they have come for National History Day.  I have no doubt that each of these students has a bright future ahead.”

National History Day was established as a local contest in Cleveland, Ohio, by Dr. David Van Tassel and members of the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University in 1974. The program expanded throughout the Midwest and became a national program in 1980 with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Today, more than a half million students across the country participate each year. 

Lewandowski and Wells completed their project on the computer’s impact on history, and Berger, Curley, Himmbelbauer, and Larson completed their project on The Beatles. Students throughout Ohio conducted research on their various topics and present them in the form of papers, websites, exhibits, performances and documentaries, both as individuals and as groups.

 

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