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
- 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:
- Grand Champion: Antonia Piedmonte-Lang, Globalization: Good for Art?
- 1st Place: Rose Fedorowicz, Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
- 2nd Place: Ben Preston, Chicago Fire
- 3rd Place: Alyssa Brown, Dian Fossey
- 4th Place: Klayton Dawson, Bob Marley
- 5th Place: Zane Piedmonte-Lang, Cartoons: Comedy and Commentary
- 6th Place: Bailey Ramler, The Vichy Government
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