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History Fair

Click here for pictures from our 2010 History Fair

Meadow Montessori School has a strong commitment to history, which is evidenced each year during our annual History Fair. In November, students from ages 6 - 15 all complete a history fair project. The topic can be just about anything. This year's projects and winners were:

2010 History Fair Placings:

  • Grand Prize - Elana Karpenko, Why Are Spelling Bees So Hard?  Origins of English
  • 1st Plac - Ben Preston, Return of the Wolves
  • 2nd Place - Drake Ernst, Local Pride, National Treasure
  • 3rd Place - Zane Piedmonte-Lang, Gold, A Global Obsessions
  • 4th Place - John Garrett, Driving the Economy with Bulls and Bears
  • 5th Place - Daydeon Baron-Galbavi, A Matter of Time
  • 6th Place - Rachel Garrett, The Boston Tea Party

Honorable Mentions:

  • Asim Abdul-Kabir, Albert Einstein
  • Alyssa Brown, Jane Goodall, the Woman Who Redefined Man
  • Gillian Cramner, Out of Ashes Came Great Change
  • Lauren Hart, Campus Martius
  • Brandon Abrams, Jonas Salk
We thank our History Fair judges:
  • Ian Calder-Piedmonte, Meadow Montessori High School alum
  • Josh Kennedy, free-lance writer
  • Ralph Navarre, former director of the Monroe County Historical Museum
  • Adam Sakel, History teacher Airport Schools
  • Saood Abdul Kabir, Meadow Montessori High School
  • Antonia Piedmonte-Lang, Meadow Montessori Middle School

Past History Fairs

The 2005 project winners were:

  • Grand Champion: Nick Houser, Stalin
  • 1st Place: Michael Peven, The Cold War
  • 2nd Place: J.T. Toniolo, The Penny
  • 3rd Place: Antonia Piedmonte-Lang, Creation Myths
  • 4th Place: Haydn McKee, USS Intrepid
  • 5th Place: Zachary Ohs, Tikis and Hawaiian Gods
  • 6th Place: Paul Reed, UM Football

The 2006 project winners were:

  • Grand Champion: Michael Peven, Chocolate
  • 1st Place: Taylor Weatherholt, Bob Marley
  • 1st Place: Antonia Piedmonte-Lang, Ojibwa Ways of Art
  • 2nd Place: Madelyn Abraham, Opera
  • 3rd Place: Emily Gladieuax, Holocaust/Genocide
  • 4th Place: Julie Fain, The Nobel Prize
  • 5th Place: Elizabeth Burroughs, Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust

The 2007 project winners were:

  • Grand Champion: Paul Reed, Happy Birthday Mighty Mac
  • 1st Place: Elizabeth Burroughs, The Rise & Role of Rock & Roll
  • 2nd Place: Rainier Altier, More Than Gambling & Glamour: The Legacy of Prince Rainier
  • 3rd Place: Madelyn Abraham, Libraries: Gateway to Knowledge
  • 4th Place: Antonia Piedmonte-Lang, When No Hope Brought Horror
  • 5th Place: Zachary Ohs, Hitler Fools the World
  • 5th Place: Rosemary Fedorowicz, Barbaro: The Horse Who Gave More Than His Life
  • 6th Place: Asim Abdul Kabir, United Nations
  • 6th Place: Khadija London, Madam C.J. Walker
  • 7th Place: Kathleen Conlon, Sovereignity or Statehood-- Is Hawaii's History Also Its Future?

The 2008 project winners were:

  • Grand Champion: Zac Ohs, The Longest Day
  • 1st Place: Antonia Piedmonte-Lang, Marie Antoinette
  • 2nd Place: Paul Reed, The Holocaust: Through the Eyes of the Children
  • 3rd Place: Deonna Gray Darfur: The Genocide of the 21st Century
  • 4th Place: Asim Abdul Kabir, William Shakespeare
  • 5th Place: Zane Piedmonte Lang, The Sour Side of Sweet
  • 6th Place: Elizabeth Burroughs, Peace Corps

The 2009 project winners were:

The projects include a research paper that is correctly annotated, as well as a visual display. Although most students present a board (similar to a science fair project), others have done models, dioramas, and dramatic presentations. In the past students have dressed up as historical figures. We encourage the students to be creative.

A select group of 12 - 14 students, ages 9 - 15, are invited to present their projects before the school community and a panel of outside judges. This panel of judges gives out the awards. In the past our judges have come from the following institutions:

  • Monroe Historical Society
  • Monroe County Library System
  • Monroe County Prosecutor's Office
  • Monroe Evening News
  • Monroe County Community College
  • Monroe High School
  • Westside Montessori School (Toledo)
  • Dearborn Heights Montessori School
  • Meadow Montessori High School
  • Meadow Montessori Middle School
  • Meadow Montessori Board of Trustees