{"id":109512,"date":"2026-02-09T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/connecticut-history-day-regional-competition-fairfield\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:10:55","slug":"connecticut-history-day-regional-competition-fairfield","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/connecticut-history-day-regional-competition-fairfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut History Day Regional Competition &#8211; Fairfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Fairfield County will come together to compete in the 2026 Connecticut History Day Fairfield Regional Contest. The Fairfield event is one of five Regional Contests hosted by The Connecticut Democracy Center this spring. Participating students have chosen a topic related to the 2026 theme of <i>Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History <\/i>and have since conducted research and interviewed experts in order to shape their findings into sound historical arguments. Working alone or in groups, students will present their projects in one of five categories \u2013 exhibits, documentaries, websites, papers, or performances &#8211; in hopes of advancing to the State Contest on May 2 at Central Connecticut State University. Students who finish in first or second place at the State Contest will be invited to the 2026 National History Day\u00ae Competition.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">8:00 am &#8211; Students Arrive, Exhibit students set up<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">9:00 am &#8211; Welcome Ceremony<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">9:30 am &#8211; Judging begins<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">3:00 pm &#8211; Awards Ceremony<\/p>\n<p>PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Academy of Information Technology (Stamford)<br \/>Bedford Middle School (Westport)<br \/>[Brunswick School (Greenwich)<br \/>The Catholic Academy of Stamford<br \/>Coleytown MIddle School (Greenwich)<br \/>Concord Magnet School (Norwalk)Darien High School<br \/>Fairfield Warde High School (Fairfield)<br \/>Greenwich Day School<br \/>Greenwich Academy (Greenwich)<br \/>Middlebrook School (Wilton)<br \/>Nathan Hale MIddle School<br \/>Park Homeschool<br \/>Ponus Ridge MIddle School (Norwalk)<br \/>Roton Middle School (Norwalk)<br \/>Sacred Heart Greenwich<br \/>Scotts RIdge Middle School (Ridgefield)<br \/>Staples High School (Westport)<br \/>Tomlinson Middle School (Fairfield)<br \/>West Rocks MIddle School (Norwalk)<\/p>\n<p>Regional Coordinator:\u00a0 Tony Andrade <a href=\"mailto:tony48nhd@gmail.com\"><u>tony48nhd@gmail.com<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This event is made possible with support from the Sacred Heart University History Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Fairfield County will come together to compete in the 2026 Connecticut History Day Fairfield Regional Contest. The Fairfield event is one of five Regional Contests hosted by The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-109512","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Connecticut&#039;s Old State House","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/109512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/109512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109512"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=109512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}