Seaside Middle School Students Shine at History Day

Seaside Middle School participated in the 2024-2025 34th Annual Monterey County History Day on March 15, 2025, hosted by the Lyceum of Monterey County at Los Arboles Middle School. This year’s theme was Rights and Responsibilities.

National History Day, is a year-long educational program that encourages students to explore local, state, national, and world history. After selecting a historical topic that relates to an annual theme, students conduct extensive research by using libraries, archives,   museums, and oral history interviews. They analyze and interpret their findings, draw conclusions about their topics' significance in history, and create final projects that present their work. These projects can be entered into a series of competitions, from the local to the national level, where they are evaluated by historians and educators. Students can compete in the following categories:    
paper, exhibit, performance, documentary, website, podcast, or 4/5th grade poster.

Students participated in Seaside Middle School's History Day Flex Elective and worked tirelessly throughout this year to complete and showcase their projects. They deserve huge recognition for their efforts to go above and beyond in order to make their projects successful!

 

This year, Seaside Middle has both county winners, who will advance to the State Competition at Sacramento State University in May, and special award winners.

 

 

Carson Jeronimo Mora
The Montgomery Bus Boycott: A Fight for Freedoms and Rights
Individual Performance

Cody Brown and Jayden Thornton
Retrial for Rights: Mabo Fights for Australian Aboriginal Land Rights
Group Performance

The American Dream: The Rights and Responsibilities in The Declaration of Independence
Individual Podcast

A special thank you to teachers Caitlin Aleru and Natalie Constable for lending their expertise to help students.

 

Seaside Middle School also look forward to supporting the county winners as they revise their projects and head into the state competition in May.

 

If you are interested in helping fund the trip, donations would be much appreciated, as the school is largely counting on donations this year to make it happen for the students. Here is more information about the fundraising efforts, and the link to donate.