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National History Day Projects Advance

Many of our students who completed 2025 National History Day projects qualified for the State Competition! These students will be given feedback from judges and have the chance to revise and improve their projects before presenting at the State level in Richmond on April 27th. 
 
Please join us in congratulating the students below on their success! 
 
Liesl Niebur & Sarah Edgar - Group Website - "What Isn't Yours: The Shenandoah National Park Land Grab and the Struggle for Property Between Government and the Individual Citizen"
 
Ru Bucy & Luke Eichholz - Group Website - "Flying with a Red Tailwind: How the Tuskegee Airmen Spearheaded a Larger Civil Rights Movement"
 
Emil Hierman - Individual Website - "Aufarbeitung: The Palace of the Republic and Memory Work in Post-Reunification Germany"
 
Grant Swenty - Individual Exhibition - "The Real Cost of Gold Mining"
 
Six teenagers wearing medals stand in a classroom in front of a screen displaying the word "VIRGINIA."