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HISD Innovation & Postsecondary Programming is excited to coordinate the district's National History Day (NHD) competition. 

Our HISD History Day competition will be virtual this year. The deadline for History Day submissions will be February 19, 2021. The awards will be announced on March 6, 2021. If your school would like to participate in or learn more about our HISD History Day competition, please contact Rebecca Rice and visit nhd.org. She will guide you and your team through the very rewarding research and presentation expectations. Be sure to view our History Day fundamentals in our History Day folder.

Click here to register for the HISD History Day competition: HISD History Day Registration. Each school is invited to register two projects per category. 

NHD gives students in grades K through 12 the opportunity to act as historians. HISD Social Studies teachers and students are encouraged to incorporate NHD components into their teaching. NHD expectations strongly align with HISD disciplinary practices. For example, primary document analysis is a critical component in NHD, Social Studies TEKS, IB, and AP Social Studies. Research expresses that NHD students “outperform their non-NHD peers on state standardized tests in multiple subjects…” (NHD Executive Summary).