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<\/p>\nAre you a historian, educator or avid history buff? If so, we need you!<\/p>\n
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The National History Day School competitions for Francis Hammond and George Washington Middle Schools are coming up and we are\u00a0seeking\u00a0judges\u00a0to\u00a0assess\u00a0student\u00a0submissions.<\/p>\n
Each year\u00a0honors\u00a0social studies students in grades six, seven and eight engage in a long-term research project as individuals or groups on historical topics of interest\u00a0based on the National History Day theme.\u00a0This year’s theme is, “Conflict and Compromise in History.” They work on their projects from the end of September to late-January\/early February.<\/p>\n Students present their findings in a variety of presentation formats: exhibit, documentary, paper, performance or website. The winners at each school will be announced by February 21 and the top two winners in each category from each school will advance to the District V Competition. The top two winners from the District V Competition will advance to the state competition.<\/p>\n Last year\u00a0Alexandria Smith, a rising seventh-grade student at George Washington Middle School won the Outstanding Entry for Junior Division<\/a>\u00a0in Virginia at the national level of competition for her individual performance portraying American Woman\u2019s Rights Advocate Alice Paul.<\/p>\n Francis C. Hammond Middle School<\/strong> George Washington Middle School<\/strong> If you are interested in judging please\u00a0complete this form<\/a> by Friday, January 26. Assignments will be confirmed via email prior to the competition days. If you have any questions, please email\u00a0stacy.palmer@acps.k12.va.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n Are you a historian, educator or avid history buff? If so, we need you to serve as a judge in the upcoming National History Day competitions at Francis C. Hammond and George Washington middle schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 20:49:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"National](\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/237C1763-A86C-4DD1-9F5B-F0B0D971C0B8-260x347.jpg\")
Judges are needed for the following shifts:<\/h3>\n
\nThursday, February 1
\n8:45 am. to 12:00 p.m. and 12:30\u00a0 to 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nMonday, February 12
\nTuesday, February 13
\n8:45 am. to 12:00 p.m. and 12:30\u00a0 to 3:00 p.m. both days<\/p>\nEnjoy these highlights from last year’s National History Day<\/a> contest.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"