Projects

Two contest divisions

In both age-appropriate divisions, students may participate as individuals or in groups of from two to five students.

  • Junior Division (grades 6-8)
  • Senior Division (grades 9-12)

Five types of contest entries

  1. Documentary
  2. Exhibit
  3. Paper (Please note: The paper category is for individual students only.)
  4. Performance
  5. Web Site

One Annual Theme for all

For 2012, the theme is "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History ".

Click here to learn more about the contest theme

Theme
Colorado history topics related to the 2012 theme as suggested by History Colorado: our State Historical Society:

Santa Fe Trail created to link a trade route between Santa Fe (Spain) and US
Bent’s Fort building dividing US from Mexico
US/Mexico War –effects on Colorado
Treaty of Hidalgo cedes parts of Colorado to US from Mexico, in theory guarantees rights
Mexicans find gold in Confluence called Mexican Diggings
Chinese Riots
Ludlow
Immigration act of 1917 allows mass immigration of Mexicans
Gov. Ed Johnson declares martial law at New Mexico border to hold back migrant workers
Chicano rights movement created, 1960 – urban/Gonzales, rural/NM
First Denver Hispanic mayor elected, 1983
Colo. Supreme Court ruling on Mexican land grants in favor of descendants of orig.settlers
Sand Creek
School busing/desegregation in Denver
Woman’s suffrage – 1892
Casmiro Barela – publishing state constitution in Spanish
Official English vote, 1988
Klan in state
Displaced Auraria neighborhood  at UCD– what happened to residents