Civic Summit
Learn how to transform your passion into impactful community action at the National History Day Civic Summit! The Civic Summit is your chance to enhance your leadership and communication skills alongside high-achieving peers. Open to 9th - 12th grade students who attended a county contest in 2025.
The California History Day Civic Summit Provides:
- certification of participation, inquiry, and reflection
- an opportunity to learn how to engage others in civil discourse
- recognition for participants
Participants Will:
- Learn from Antonio White, author of Close With Your Open, how to engage others in their cause
- Craft a civic activity action plan that outlines how they'll make a difference
- Create a marketing plan that gets their community involved in their cause
Civic Summit 2025
Saturday, May 3, 3:30 - 6:30 PM
Sacramento State University
Registration - opens in March
How to Participate
1st – CONNECT WITH AN ISSUE
When choosing your topic, think about a real-world problem you are interested in knowing more about. Trace the causes of your problem to its historic roots. Your NHD topic will be the historic cause of your real-world problem You will research and create an NHD project around the causes of your topic, but your civic related issue will be the impact of those causes.
2nd – CONDUCT HISTORY DAY RESEARCH & INQUIRY
Your History Day Annotated Bibliography meets the inquiry requirements for the SSCE.
3rd – ATTEND A COUNTY HISTORY DAY CONTEST
Any senior division student who attends a county History Day contest is eligible to participate. Even if you are not competing in the state contest, you are still eligible to participate in the Civic Summit.
4th – WRITE A LETTER OF INTENT
The registration process includes answering the questions required for the Letter of Intent and uploading your Annotated Bibliography.
5th – MEET ALL DEADLINES
Your registration must include your Letter of Intent answers and your Annotated Bibliography.
A Letter of Intent must address the following
- A description of your real-world problem
Based on your historical research, what real-world problem would you like to address?
- Multiple Perspectives
How do multiple perspectives shape the real-world problem? What are the different perspectives? Who are potential stakeholders?
- Significance
How did your research demonstrate the long term impacts of the real-world problem?
- Why Civic Engagement
How do you see your real-world problem being impacted by systems of power and governments?
Sacramento County Office of Education
NHD-CA
P.O. Box 269003
Sacramento, CA 95826
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