Center for Brooklyn History hosts winners of student history contest
Students at Brooklyn Tech won 5 awards
The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library recently announced the winners of the New York City History Contest, recognizing projects exploring an extraordinarily wide range of historical events from the First Opium War to the Major League Baseball strike of 1994.
Among the Brooklyn schools that produced winners were Brooklyn Tech, the Berkeley Carroll School, Poly Prep Country Day School, the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Hellenic Classical Charter School (with campuses in both Brooklyn and Staten Island) and the Greek School of Plato. Brooklyn Tech, in particular, had five winning projects.
“The Center for Brooklyn History welcomes researchers of all ages and interests, as demonstrated by the extraordinary breadth of this year’s History Day projects,” said Linda E. Johnson, president and CEO of Brooklyn Public Library. “From explorations of democracy in ancient Greece to the origins of the crisis at Rikers, the winning projects are a testament to the power of understanding our past so we can steer toward a brighter future.”