COLUMBIA, October 12, 2009 — Put your thinking caps on and join the staffs of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection and The State Historical Society of Missouri for a Trivia Contest, October 23, 2009, to support National History Day in Missouri. The event will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 2525 N. Stadium Blvd., Columbia, Mo. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the fun begins at 7:00 p.m. The table fee is $80.00 for up to eight seats. Prizes will be given to the top teams and raffle items will be available, including tickets for the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals games, a Missouri Theater gift bag, gift baskets, and more.
Students and teachers are currently preparing for this years’ National History Day theme, Innovation in History: Impact and Change. Money raised will help fund teacher workshops, the state competition to be held in Columbia, Mo., April, 10, 2010, and to offset student travel expenses to the national competition in June at College Park, Maryland.
National History Day (NHD) in Missouri is an educational outreach program of The State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia, University of Missouri. It is a yearlong program dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of history in elementary and secondary schools. Each fall, more than 700,000 students nationwide begin the NHD program, competing in a series of history contests in their local districts and states. The annual student competition is the nation’s oldest and most highly regarded humanities contest for students in grades 6-12. NHD is open to all types of students—public, private, parochial, and home-school; urban, suburban and rural.
For more information about the Trivia Contest, please call 573-882-7231 or email lukomskij@umsystem.edu. You may also go to http://whmc.umsystem.edu/trivia/nhdmo.html