A Special Thank-you...

On behalf of the hard working folks at the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities, and the History Judge Coordinators, we want to express our thanks for your help this past Saturday at the State History Day Fair. You are all busy people, especially at this time of the semester (for those on the academic calender.) We all cherish our weekends and your willingness to devote some of that time in support of this community educational project is greatly appreciated.

The projects that will be representing Hawaii at the National History Day event in June represent the defining diversity of this state - in terms of topics, students, schools and regions they come from.  They will certainly be able to present stronger projects based on the helpful feedback you provided (some of you doing this at the state and district fairs.)  All students participating certainly learned something from their involvement, including the rich array of primary sources out there, the fascinating historical back stories of events and peoples and the differences between stating chronology - and making a thoughtful historical argument.  These are areas of intellectual growth requiring cumulative learning over time; History Day activities - esp. feedback from judges - are an important part of this process.

Some of you served at several fairs this year.  We do try to continually broaden our 'pool' of judges but the growing size of most of the district fairs means we have to ensure a large number of judges over several weekends so we especially appreciate those who stepped up repeatedly, we could not have done this year's cycle of fairs without you.

  If you want to see the final results from the State Fair - these will be posted up shortly.

With thanks,

The Hawai’i Council for the Humanities, and Malia Lau Kong, Cynthia Smith and Paul Field (History Day Judge Coordinators)