
Congratulations
to
Julienne
Lim,
eighth-grade
student
at
Porter
Traditional
School,
whose
website
earned
a
top
spot
in
the
National
History
Day
(NHD)
Contest.
Julienne
placed
first
in
her
category
at
the
Northern
Virginia
district
contest,
then
second
in
the
junior
individual
website
category
at
the
state
level
Virginia
History
Day
Contest,
earning
her
the
right
to
advance
to
the
NHD
National
Contest.
She
attributes
her
skills
in
coding
and
animation
to
her
involvement
in
school
robotics.
This
knowledge
led
to
her
ease
and
success
using
the
NHD
website
builder
tool
on
which
she
produced
her
project,
"Devil
Dog
Canines:
A
Line
of
Communication
in
World
War
II."
"As
someone
with
a
strong
preference
for
technology,
the
website
category
heavily
appealed
to
me,"
writes
Julienne.
"I
have
a
background
in
coding
and
animation,
since
I
do
robotics.
My
goal
was
to
present
clear
and
coherent
information
in
a
nostalgic
way;
therefore,
I
used
the
monochrome
effect."
Julienne's
research
and
resulting
website
focused
on
the
important
role
messenger
dogs
played
in
sending
battlefield
communications
in
the
Pacific
Theatre
of
World
War
II
to
support
the
national
theme,
"Communication
in
History:
The
Key
to
Understanding."
"The
work
of
these
four-legged
heroes
resulted
in
enormous
contributions
to
multiple
victories
of
the
United
States
and
its
allied
countries
during
World
War
II,
and
to
the
improvement
of
war
communications,"
she
writes.
Similar
to
a
science
fair,
the
NHD
competition
encourages
original
research
that
begins
at
the
local
level,
but
for
history.
Student
projects
can
progress
from
local
to
a
state
contest
and,
during
the
summer,
culminates
at
the
NHD
National
Contest.
The
Virginia
Museum
of
History
and
Culture
(VMHC)
sponsors
the
Virginia
History
Day
Contest,
the
state
affiliate
of
NHD.
Students
participate
in
the
program
by
selecting
a
topic
in
history
they
are
interested
in,
connecting
it
to
the
annual
NHD
theme,
conducting
primary
and
secondary
source
research,
and
presenting
the
findings
in
one
of
five
forms:
documentary,
exhibit,
performance,
website,
and
paper.
Julienne
also
received
the
United
States
Marine
Corps
History
Award,
which
is
sponsored
by
the
Marine
Corps
Heritage
Foundation
and
is
awarded
to
an
outstanding
entry
that
demonstrates
an
appreciation
of
Marine
Corps
history.