National History Day has updated the Contest Rule Book for the 2022 Contest and beyond.
Please carefully read over the contest rules by visiting or downloading the rule book linked below.
The Florida History Day Contest uses the National History Day contest rule book to orient judges, teachers, and students.
State Contest Overview
Student Registration Opens: February 12
Student Registration Closes: April 9
Project Upload Deadline: April 9
State Contest: May 5-7, 2024.
State Contest Winners Announced: May 7
National History Day Contest to be held in June 2024.
2024 Contest Schedule
- All students must be registered and their projects uploaded to the contest management system by April 9.
- FHD will announce the State Contest winners on May 7.
Judge Criteria
The 2023 Florida History Day Contest will be held May 7-9, 2023. FHD is looking for historians, educators, and other professionals to judge student projects at this year’s contest. Confirmed judges will receive information about the schedule by email.
Students in 6th through 12th grades conduct extensive research on topics related to an annual theme and present their findings in historical papers, exhibits, documentaries, performances, and websites. They use the contest rule book to build their projects for the competition with guidance from their teachers.
FHD and National History Day rely on consensus judging. That means that instead of giving entries numerical scores, judges rank them within each judging round. If you are confirmed as a judge, you will be assigned to a team of 3 judges, one of whom will be designated as the captain. It is important that everyone on your team agrees on the overall rankings of the entries you judge.