The
Fontana Unified School District had a great turn out for our District History Day
event at Ruble Middle School on Saturday, January 30.
Hundreds of young historians demonstrated their knowledge of historical people and
events. Nine individual projects and eight group projects will move on to
compete in the County competition next month.
This competition engages students in the process
of researching and interpreting a historical topic of their choice related to an
annual theme. Working individually or in small groups, students are
encouraged to find primary and secondary resources on their subject through
research in libraries and museums, interviews, and visits to historic sites.
Over the past two decades, Fontana Unified School District students have been
extremely successful at History Day, gaining numerous championships at the
county, state, and even national level. In fact, Fontana has won more
national History Day honors than any other district in the entire country.
"This year, the students completed projects relating to the theme of The
Innovation in History: Impact and Change,” said Catherine Obregon, coordinator
of the District History
Day event. “Generally, we focus on
victories, defeats, battles — negative things,” she said, “but this year, by
having the students research innovations, we got a chance to look at the
positive side of things.”
(Photo courtesy of Fontana Herald News.)
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