**All 2021-2022 competitions will be held virtually.**
This regional contest is for students in York County School District. If you are in one of the following counties, please email jbliggon@coastal.edu if you wish to participate: Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Lancaster, and Union Counties.
The top two projects in each division and category advance to the state contest. The third place serves as the alternate if a position is available.
**All 2021-2022 competitions will be held virtually.**
Project Evaluation
Judges will use NHD Evaluation Forms to evaluate your entry. You are encouraged to use these forms as a guide in developing your project. Then, after the contest, carefully review the judges’ feedback. If your project is moving on to a higher competition level, consider ways to strengthen your work. Between contest levels, you may continue your research, refine your analysis, and revise your project, including your title. However, you may not change your topic (Rule 3, p. 14). There are two evaluation sections:
Historical Quality (80%) - this section is the same for all categories
- Strength of your historical argument
- Research
- Relationship to annual theme
Clarity of Presentation (20%) - this section is different for each category
- How well your project communicates your argument using the tools of your category
Category evaluation forms can be found at nhd.org/categories.
Rule infractions occur if you violate any of the rules stated in this Contest Rule Book. Failure to comply with the rules will count against your entry. Judges will consider rule infractions in their fnal rankings. Note that while rule infractions may preent your entry from advancing, they are not grounds for disqualifcation from a competition.
Disqualification. The Contest Coordinator has the authority to disqualify an entry, which will result in removal from competition, for the following reasons related to academic integrity:
- Entering your project in multiple contests or entry categories within a contest year (Rule 2, p. 14)
- Reusing, individually or as a group, a project (or research from a project) from a previous year (Rule 4, p. 14)
- Plagiarizing (Rule 5, p. 15)
- Tampering with or removing any part of another entry during a competition (Rule 6, p. 15)