Historic Highlandlake, Historical Society
is inviting
all Mead area Middle and High school students to enter
our first annual
"A Moment in Mead's History"
Essay Invitational
Students in two age brackets, 6th - 8th grades and 9th - 12th grades, and who live in the Mead schools attendance area, are invited to enter. This includes students who attend charter schools, are home-schooled, or attend other public schools, but live in the defined attendance area.
Submissions must be (for grades 6-8, 1,000-1,200 words -- grades 9-12, 1,200 - 1,500 words) essays on any person, place, thing, or event in Mead, Colorado's history, that occurred at least 25 years ago (1985 or earlier).
Students should cite at least one primary and one secondary source, but more sources are encouraged.
Essays should include a sentence or two as to why the student feels that the topic they are writing about is important to Mead's history. Extra points will be given for additional sources, both primary and secondary. In other words, if two essays are equal in content, spelling, and grammar, but one has three primary and four secondary sources, and the other only the minimum required, then the one with the additional sources will be given preference over the one with only two sources.
Entries will be judged on content, spelling, grammar, and references/sources.*
* Please note: The Historic Highlandlake website should be considered a secondary source, unless you are using one of our scanned images of a primary source, such as a newspaper clipping.
What Are. . .
Rubric - Coming Soon!
Need a little assistance?
People who are willing to give some guidence (but who will not write your paper for you!), and some resources to get you started.
Historic Highlandlake will present three winners in each age bracket with:
First Prize - an 8G Apple iPod from Best Buy, value $150
Second Prize - $100 gift certificate to Best Buy
Third Prize - $50 gift certificate to Best Buy.
Winning essays will be placed on this website.
Submit your entry, along with your name, address, teacher's name, and school to. . .
Pauli Driver Smith, Executive Director
Historic Highlandlake
16778 CR 5
Mead, CO. 80542
You will need to submit one printed copy of your essay PLUS a digital copy (on a CD or you can submit your digital copy via email). Please save your digital copy either as a Microsoft Word (.doc) or as a PDF document. You may also save it as a rich text .(rtx) document.
Entries will be accepted until midnight March 14, 2010. Winners will be announced on April 1, 2010.
For more information, contact Historic Highlandlake executive director, Pauli Driver Smith at:970-535-4936, or send an e-mail (preferred) to pauli@HistoricHighlandlake.org.
A Huge Thanks to Our Very Important Sponsors!
Mead Area Community Foundation
Thanks to the faculity and administration at Front Range Community College Boulder County Campus, for their assistance in helping us define the rules and guidelines for the essay invitational. Special thanks to Deb Craven, Department Program Coordinator for the Multi-media, Graphic Design Department and Dr. Andy DeRoche, Department Lead-History.
This page was updated on March 3, 2009