PHOTO GALLERY: History Day contenders at nationals this week
Erin Peck researched the Armenian genocide, a purge of more than 1 million that occurred just before World War I.
Kaitlyn Knoche, Elle Lohre and Vianne Jackson tell the story of Holocaust survivor Eva Kor.
North Scott students made up most of the Iowa delegation competing at National History Day at the University of Maryland this week. The students honed their presentations last week for residents at Grandhaven Retirement Community in Eldridge.
Dylan Engelbrecht presents on Herblock. Newspaper cartoonist Herbert Lawrence Block's work appeared in newspapers across the nation over six decades.
Alexis Raleigh and Madison Knoche share the life story of Fred Rogers.
Cyara Jackson and Anna Sophia Council report on the Orphan Train.
Connor Peck presents on the Port Chicago mutiny of 1944, in which African-American sailors in California refused orders to continue loading munitions after 320 sailors died in a blast.
Hailey Glover and Sophia Cauwels tell the story of Ryan White's life with HIV.
Hannah Belk and Jenna Willett wrote and performed a tribute to United Flight 93, where passengers overtook 9/11 terrorists.
