Contest Information

Need some ideas to help get you started? Check out what previous Ohio History Day students have done in the sample projects below.

Documentary

• Sophia Alleman, Senior Individual Documentary: FDR and REA: Bringing Light and Power to Rural America
• Angela D'Souza, Junior Individual Documentary: The Cleveland Free-Net: How a Case Weseern Reserve Univestiy Experiment Opened a New World of Communication
• Leslie Gimbert and Anna Kunkel, Junior Group Documentary: A Misunderstanding Through Silence: How "Mokusatsu" Engendered Miscommunication that Influenced the 1945 Atomic Bombins
• Laila Christian, Senior Individual Documentary: Communication in Song: How Lady Day Paved the Way

Exhibit

• Alexander Forrest, Junior Individual Exhibit: Oberlin College: Breaking Racial and Gender Barriers in Education
• Allison Rogers and Lainey Parker, Junior Group Exhibit: The Iconic Duo Sarah and Angelina Grimke
• Rebecca Catlos, Tory Bobosky, Gianna Santangelo, Senior Group Exhibit: A Forgotten Hero: Larry Doby’s Fight to Integrate American League Baseball
• Annalissa Hankinson, Senior Individual Exhibit: Vox de Commande {The Command Voice}: World War II 69th Signal Division Behind the Battlefield Communication in General Patton's March Across France

Paper

• Ashley Allton, Senior Paper: Separation of Church and State: The Barrier that Broke Barriers
• Megan Chamberlin, Senior Paper: Victoria Woodhull: Breaking Barriers for Women in Business and Politics
• Sydni Wilson, Senior Paper: Flying by the Seat of her Pants:The Masculine Charm of George Sand
• Omar Elbadawy, Junior Paper: Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Key to Understanding the Inhumanity of Slavery through the Power of the Story

Performance

• Cordelia Vanderveer, Senior Individual Perfromance: How far are the Stars? The Breakthroughs of Henrietta Swan Leavitt
• Brendan Zbanek, Mary Basilion, Zara Braun, Senior Group Performance: Tinker vs Des Moines: The Student Led Fight For Free Speech
• Audrey Ronayne, Fiona Boyd, Katherine Leonardi, Junior Group Performance: How the Courtroom Became a Crime Scene: The Unjust Communication in the Sam Sheppard Trials

Website

• ​​​​​​​​​​​​Laura Kressler and Grace Suhadolnik, Senior Group Website: Live Aid 1985: Rock and Roll For a Cause
• Rebecca Chin and Abby Gemechu, Junior Group Website: The Visual Arts of the Harlem Renaissance: Chiseling Away at Racial Barriers and Painting a New Future for Black Artists
• Chloe Leng, Nadine Nouraldin, and Reyna Uechi, Junior Group Website: Titanic: The Miscommunication That Sunk the Unsinkable Ship

See below for brief descriptions of the contest submission procedures for each category. Pay close attention to the requirements for the written materials (title page, process paper, annotated bibliography). Please note: For full instructions and required guidelines read the Contest Submission Guide (coming Fall 2022).

Websites

URLs for Website entries should be submitted through your contest’s NHD registration site.

Papers

Students who compete in this category should upload their papers and written materials to their contest’s registration site. Please note, your original paper uploaded with your registration at the regional level will follow your project to the state contest registration if you advance to the state contest. If you need to edit your paper, remember to upload the updated entry before the registration deadline.

Documentary

Documentary students need to record and save their projects in .MP4 format and their required written materials as a PDF. These will then be uploaded to your contest’s registration site.

Exhibit

All exhibit participants are required to create a physical exhibit for all regional and the state Ohio History Day contests. Students are required to save their written materials as a PDF and upload them to your contest’s registration site.

Performance

All performances will take place live at the in-person contests. Students are required to save their written materials as a PDF and upload them to your contest’s registration site.

All judging evaluations will be collected, sorted by schools and returned to participating teachers the following school week. Evaluating history is a subjective process, but criteria and methods have been established to achieve fair decisions. Here is a description of how the judging process will work at Ohio History Day:

Use of Evaluation Forms: Each judge will have an evaluation form for the entries they are judging. They are instructed to use these sheets to write positive, critical evaluations of each entry. Written comments are stressed in judging orientation because this is the principal feedback students receive from the event. Click to view the revised 2022 evaluation forms. (For a list of significant updates click here.)

Ratings: All History Day judging decisions are made by the consensus of the judging teams. In effect, History Day judging is a jury process where the judges have to reach a shared conclusion, rather than an arbitrary point system. Ratings vary from one judging group to another. Each set of judges establishes their own standards for ratings. Ratings cannot be compared across different judging teams.

Final Judging: Categories with a single team of judges will have award decisions made by those teams. Categories with multiple teams of judges will have run-offs that will consider the top two-three entries from the initial judging groups. A new set of judges, or a combination from the original teams, will evaluate the final entries and determine state award winners.

Run-Offs: Be advised that there WILL BE judging run-offs in at least the exhibit, documentary and performance categories. We hold run-offs or a second round of judging for any category that has enough entries to warrant two-judge teams. The top picks from each judging team will then advance to a second round. A new set of judges, or a combination from the original teams, will evaluate the final entries and determine rankings.

Counties:
Ashland, Crawford, Erie, Huron, Marion, Morrow, Ottawa, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Wyandot
Register Here

Coordinator:
Jeremy Angstadt
Museum Services Manager
Sandusky Library
114 W. Adams St.
Sandusky, OH 44870
p. 419.625.3834
[email protected]

Contest Date - Sat., March 25, 2023 | Terra State Community College

Registration Dates and Fees

• Registration & Submission Deadline: March 10, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10

Counties:
Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Summit
Register Here

Coordinator:
Dr. Mary Manning
Cleveland History Center
10825 E. Blvd.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
p. 216.721.5722 x1503
[email protected] | History Day at Western Reserve Historical Society

Contest Date - Sat., March 4, 2023 | Cleveland History Center & Case Western Reserve University 

Registration Dates and Fees:

• Contest Registration Deadline: February 3, 2023
• Late Registration Deadline: February 17, 2023
• Submission Deadline: February 17, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10 | Late Registration: $15

Counties:
Ashtabula, Geauga, Mahoning, Portage, Trumbull
Register Here

Coordinator:
David Simonelli
Youngstown State University
Department of History | DeBartolo Hall, Room 537
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555
p. 330.941.1601
f. 330.941.2304
e: [email protected]

Contest Date - Sat., April 1, 2023

Registration Dates and Fees

• Registration Deadline: March 10, 2023
• Submission Deadline: March 17, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10

2021 Region 4 Winners

Counties:
Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Holmes, Jefferson, Stark, Tuscarawas, Wayne
Register Here

Coordinator:
Allyson Carlson
The McKinley Museum & Presidential Library
800 Mc Kinley Monument Dr NW
Canton, OH 44708
p. 330.455.7043
e: [email protected]

Contest Date - Sat., February 25, 2023 | McKinley Presidential Library and Museum

Registration Deadlines & Fees

• Registration Deadline: February 4, 2023
• Submission Deadline: February 11, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10

Counties:
Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby
Register Here

Coordinator:
Andy Hite
Johnston Farm and Indian Agency
9845 N. Hardin Rd.
Piqua, Ohio 45356
p. 937.773.2522 / 800.752.2619
e: [email protected]

Contest Date - Sat., March 4 | Piqua Jr. High School

Registration Dates and Fees

• Registration & Submission Deadline: February 15, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10

Counties:
Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland, Warren
Register Here

Coordinator:
Tony Lawson
Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Ave.
Cincinatti, OH 45203
p. 513.287.7000 ext 7201
e: [email protected]

Contest Date - Sat., March 18 | Cincinnati Museum Center

• Registration Deadline: March 1, 2023
• Submission Deadline: March 3, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10

Counties:
Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton
Register Here

Coordinator:
David A. Moore & Gwen Daniels
Gallia-Vinton ESC
University of Rio Grande, Wood Hall Rm. 131
p. 740.245.0593
e: [email protected] | [email protected]

Contest Date - Sat., March 4, 2023 |University of Rio Grande

Registration Dates and Fees

• Registration Deadline: February 17, 2023
• Submission Deadline: February 24, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10

Counties:
Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Washington
Register Here

Coordinator:
Samantha Rubino
Ohio History Connection
800 E. 17th Ave
Columbus, Ohio
e: [email protected]

Contest Date - Sat., March 25, 2023 | Muskingum University

Registration Dates and Fees

• Registration & submission Deadline: Fri., March 17, 2023
• Registration Fee: $10