Alan Zhou (left) and Kyler Wang (right) won second place for their documentary titled “Echo of Falling Water: The Inundation of Celilo Falls,” at the April 27, 2019, Oregon History Day contest held in Portland.

OREGON HISTORY DAY2020 Virtual Guide

› Updated Timeline › Registration Information › All Category Information › Specific Category Instructions for Uploading

Projects › Judge Feedback & National Contest Selection › Student and Teacher Fees › Contact Information

What’s Inside?

Updated Timeline l Page 2

Note: Please be aware that the timeline is subject to change. Major changes will be communicated to you by email and posted on ohs.org/oregonhistoryday and the registration page ( https://or.nhd.org/).

Registration is open from April 13 at 8 AM – April 20 at 9 PM

At the time students register, ALL projects must be completed and ready to be uploaded per the spe-cific instructions for each category. These instructions will be emailed to you by the OHS History Day team and posted on the contest registration site. This means all students must have completed their projects by April 20, including conversion to any new format, such as written scripts for performances.

Registration & Timeline

Monday, April 13 at 8 AM

State contest registration opens

Monday, April 20 at 9 PM

State contest websites will be locked (students must have uploaded and sub-mitted their websites as they registered for the state contest).

Monday, April 20 at Midnight

Registration closes and ALL projects must be uploaded and submitted (chang-es cannot be made to students’ projects once they are submitted).

Fees: $25 per student and $5 per teacher Thursday, April 22 – Sunday, May 3

Judges evaluate and rank students’ project, and select those eligible for the national contest

Monday, May 4 Websites unlock

Tuesday, May 5 OHS emails results and posts them on History Day website

Eligible students are invited to the national contest. Tuesday, May 5 – Thursday, May 21

National contest students are encouraged to revise their projects per their judges and teachers’ feedback and ongoing research

Monday, May 11 – Friday, May 15

OHS sends contest certificates of participation and medals, as appropriate, to students

Friday, May 22 at 9 PM

National History Day contest registration closes and all projects must be uploaded and submitted per the national contest category instructions (these may differ from the state contest instructions).

Fees: $75 per student and $0 per teacher

Sunday, June 14 – Thursday, June 18

National History Day virtual contest

Teacher Registration

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› Navigate to https://or.nhd.org/. Under the Create Account heading, teachers will enter their name and email address and click the “Create Account” button to begin registration.

› When asked for registrant type (student, teacher, judge, volunteer, staff), teachers will select “Teacher”.

› Teachers will then complete personal contact information: address, city, zip, phone number, gender, and will create a password.

› Teachers will then be prompted to answer additional questions and choose their school from a list. To easily find a school, teachers can use the search command by typing “ctrl” and “F” on a PC or “command” and “F” on a Mac.

› Teachers will also indicate if they are attending the contest. › Teachers will then agree to NHD permissions and waivers. › Click “Save and Contiue” button.

Student Registration

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› Navigate to https://or.nhd.org/. Under the Create Account heading, students will enter their name and email address and click the “Create Account” button to begin registration.

› When asked for registrant type (student, teacher, judge, volunteer, staff), students will select “Student.”

› Students will then complete personal contact information: address, city, zip, phone number, parent email address, and will create a password.

› Click “Save and Contiue” button. › This will take students to the page where they will enter information about their entry. Students

will either create an entry, or link to a group project that their teammate has already created.

• The first student in a group will create the entry during the registration process. Once that student is registered they will give their fellow group members the “team key.” Note: The team key will appear on the student’s registration confirmation page. The team key can also be found within the student’s profile. •The following group member(s) will begin a student account and will enter the “team key” for their entry. This will bring up the title and description for their entry that was filled out by the group member who created the entry.

› Students are then prompted to enter school, teacher, and grade information. › They will click “next” and then be required to answer further questions. › Once information is confirmed, students will be taken to a page where they, along with their

parents/guardians, will agree to NHD permissions and waivers. › Click “Save and Contiue” button. Registration is complete only once all fees have been paid.

All Category Information & Exhibit Submission l Page 5

All Category Information

Group Projects Only one student will need to upload the pdf and enter the URL address. The system will automatically connect that information with other group members' submittal boxes.

All Projects

Due to the nature of the virtual contest, we are unable to coordinate virtual interviews, so projects will be judged on the information presented in the project and in the supporting paperwork (annotated bibliography/process paper).

We will test all URL links and PDFs and will contact you if there are problems with the files.

• Take photos of your exhibit.

o IMPORTANT NOTE: You may need to take photos of the exhibit before editing the final text. It is okay if the text you include in your template does not match what is shown in the photos. The judges will refer to the text you include in your template as your “final” version.

o You will need the following photos for your slide:

Exhibit Submission

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• Combine your photos and text to create a PowerPoint or Google Slides by following the instructions given in this Slide Show template:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mp3cHS8tQBV9x6BVpy7xA8EDXmqNnFPX/view

• Export the PowerPoint or Google Slides into a PDF: o If you are using PowerPoint, click File at the top left corner, click Export, and click Create PDF/ XPS. o If you are using Google Slides, click File at the top left corner, click Download, and choose the PDF Document (.pdf) option.

• Create one PDF that includes your title page, process paper, and annotated bibliography, in that order. o If you are using Word Document, click File at the top left corner, click Export, and click Create PDF/XPS. o If you are using Google Docs, click File at the top left corner, click Download, and choose the PDF Document (.pdf) option.

• Combine your presentation PDF with your paperwork PDF, in that order. A free website for this in-cludes I Love PDF (https://www.ilovepdf.com/merge_pdf). You can only upload one PDF so it must include ALL of these components.• Name the file your first and last names (ex: IsaRuelas.pdf). • Go to www.or.nhd.org/ and create your student profile. • Upload your PDF file into the Entry’s Paper field. See image below. • Click Save.

Exhibit Submission Cont.

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• Your website must be built in NHDWebCentral.

• Be sure that your process paper and annotated bibliography are embedded in your website.

o How do I embed my process paper/bibliography? Use the Embed Multimedia block available on NHDWebCentral™. This block adapts to what you add to it. It supports PDFs, audio files (.mp3, .wav, and .aac), and video files (.mp4, .mov, and .wmv).

• Go to www.or.nhd.org/ and create your student profile.

• Submit your site key in the NHDWebCentral Site Key area.

o The site key looks something like this: 5262633.

• Click Save & Continue.

Website Submission

Paper Submission l Page 8

• Create one PDF that includes your title page, paper, and annotated bibliography, in that order. You can only upload one PDF so it must include all of these components.

o If you are using Word Document, click File at the top left corner, click Export, and click Create PDF/XPS.

o If you are using Google Docs, click File at the top left corner, click Download, and choose the PDF Document (.pdf) option.

• Name the file your first and last names (ex: IsaRuelas.pdf).

• Go to www.or.nhd.org/ and create your student profile.

• Upload your PDF file into the Entry’s Paper field.

• Click Save.

Paper Submission

Performance Submission l Page 9

The Oregon Historical Society has decided that in acknowledgement of inequitable access to technol-ogy and to encourage social distancing the performance category will be judged by scripts only in-stead of video recordings of the performance. (The National History Day office has not yet determined if it will use scripts or another format for the national contest.)

• Prepare your Script. o Scripts are not normally part of the paper work that needs to be submitted for the OHD or NHD contests, so your script will not be evaluated for standard script formatting by the judges. For ease of reading and understanding, please include these 6 elements in your script: thesis, setting(s), time, character, costumes and props, and dialogue.

o Script Example: 1.Thesis 2. Setting - Oregon, during Executive Order 9066 (You may add additional settings per different scenes, if that helps your judges better visualize and understand your performance. For example, your first setting might be meeting Minoro in his home. Your second setting might be Minoro on the public street. Your third setting might be Minoro in jail.) 3. Time - 1939 4. Character - Minoro Y., resident and college student 5. Costumes and Props - Minori in casual dress common to the late 1930s, police costumes 6. Dialogue - “I don’t think this is fair!”

o Make sure your script contains references to the historical evidence from your research. o Using actual dialogue, quotations, or brief excerpts from speeches are good ways to put historical detail into your performance. oRemember that your script should center on the thesis statement, supporting statements, and the conclusion that you developed from your research

• Create one PDF that includes your title page, script (with setting, time, character, costumes and props, and dialogue), process paper, and annotated bibliography, in that order. You can only upload one PDF so it must include all of these components.

o If you are using a Word Document, click File at the top left corner, click Export, and click Create PDF/XPS. o If you are using Google Docs, click File at the top left corner, click Download, and choose the PDF Document (.pdf) option. • Name the file your first and last names (ex: IsaRuelas.pdf).

Performance Submission

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Performance Submission Cont.

• Go to www.or.nhd.org/ and create your student profile.

• Upload your PDF file into the Entry’s Paper field. See image below.

• Click Save.

Documentary Submission l Page 11

Paper Materials • Create one PDF that includes your title page, process paper, and annotated bibliography, in that or-der. You can only upload one PDF so it must include all of these components. o If you are using Word Document, click File at the top left corner, click Export, and click Create PDF/XPS. o If you are using Google Docs, click File at the top left corner, click Download, and choose the PDF Document (.pdf) option. • Name the file your first and last names (ex: IsaRuelas.pdf).

Video Upload • Save your documentary or performance video as an .MP4 video file. o Google Drive supports other file types including MPEG4, 3GPP, MOV files, AVI, WMV, and more if you aren’t able to download a .MP4 video file. • Sign into or create a Google Account (https://accounts.google.com/). • Navigate to Google Drive (https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive/) once you are sign into the account. • Click the New button

• Choose the File upload option.

Documentary Submission

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Documentary Submission Cont.

• Upload the .MP4 file from your computer.• After uploading the video, right click on it and choose Get shareable link.

• IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE LINK SHARING IS ON. It should say “Anyone with the link can view.”

Submit Materials• Go to www.or.nhd.org/ and create your student profile.

• Upload your PDF file into the Entry’s Paper field. Paste your shareable Google link into the Entry Video URL field.

• Click save.

Note: YouTube is permissible, but take caution that even unlisted YouTube links are sometimes re-moved due to copyright. Other sites that can be used to generate a link include Dropbox and One-Drive, but make sure the permission settings are set so that anyone with the link can view it.

Judge Feedback & National Contest Selection

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A team of judges will score students’ projects on the basis of the submitted project only. There will be no interviews. Students will receive their judge’s scores and comments virtually.

Students are encouraged to review judges’ suggestions from the state contest and consider them when revising their projects for the national contest. Feel free to look at the national website (nhd.org) webinars and google chats for additional guidance.

The top two highest scoring entries in each of the 18 categories may be eligible to participate in the National History Day contest on June 14-18, 2020, and those that are eligible to participate in the na-tional contest will be contacted by the Oregon History Day team. If one of the top two entries cannot participate in the national contest, the third highest scoring entry - if it met the eligibility criteria - will be invited to participate in the national contest.

Student & Teacher Fees

Oregon will work with the national office to virtually send students to the national contest. OHS will also offer up to $3,000 in financial aid to support students who request financial aid to cover the na-tional contest registration of $75 per student and $0 per teacher. The financial aid will be distributed on a first come first served basis.

Please contact Kristen.Pilgrim@ohs.org with payment concerns. The method for collecting the fees will be announced shortly.

Oregon History Day FeesStudent: $25

Teacher: $5

National History Day FeesStudent: $75

Teacher: $0

Still Have Questions? Contact Kristen Pilgrim or Isa Ruelas at History.Day@ohs.org.