KeTT at the 50th annual Michigan History Day Competition!

The Keweenaw Time Traveler attended this year's regional History Competition held at Michigan Technology University. The Michigan History Day Competition encourages students across the state to explore history from both local and global scales and prepare a variety of exhibits that share what they learned. Students from across the Western Upper Peninsula can create documentaries, historical performances, exhibits and websites and enter the regional competition sponsored by the Michigan Technological University Social Sciences Department and the Michigan Tech Archives. This year all of the participants came from Lake Linden. 

The theme for this year was "Turning Points in History", but students took this theme and developed a wide variety of projects on many themes from the Italian Hall disaster to the discovery of penicillin. Other exhibits included the development of the V-2 rocket and its impact on early experiments in manned space travel and a special documentary on MKUltra, a CIA project that researched unique methods of information extraction including psychoactive drugs and electroshock.

Winners of the regional competition have earned a spot in the State Finals taking place April 20th at Central Michigan University.

For more information about the History Day Competition explore this article published by the Daily Mining Gazette.