This prize recognizes outstanding presentation of historical materials in digital or multimedia formats by UM-Dearborn students. An eligible presentation should use a digital tool to present an interpretation of the past based on research in primary and secondary sources. The presentation should have been created in a UM-Dearborn class in the last two years. While it need not have formal citations, it should indicate its sources with a bibliography or works cited using any standard format. (MLA, Chicago, etc.) Your bibliography may either be embedded within the presentation as a section, page, or slide, or may be submitted separately as an accompanying file (.doc, google doc, pdf, .ppt) in the case of A/V submissions. What this looks like will vary depending on file type and assignment; please email with any questions.
Access complete submission guidelines here
Submission deadline: May 9, 2025. Send to ppennock@umich.edu
Groups projects are accepted. $125 prize will be awarded.
Presentation Formats
Submitted presentations may be in any standard digital format. Examples include but are not limited to: Storymap, TimelineJS, Prezi, websites (such as a Google Site), narrated slideshows, and A/V files in the form of MP4s and MP3s. Please note that judges have to be able to open and share your file in order to evaluate it. Submit early to confirm access works.
Who is Eligible
Any UM-Dearborn student who is currently enrolled or who graduated in Summer '24, Fall '24 or Winter '25.
Submission
Presentations must be submitted by email to ppennock@umich.edu, as an attachment or link. Entries must be received by May 9, 2025.
One presentation submission per student, please. (You may, however, submit both a digital presentation and a paper to the paper prize contest simultaneously.)
Evaluation
Submissions will be evaluated by History faculty on the following criteria:
• Effective integration of images, text, and audio or video, as relevant, to present an interpretation of the past.
• Research in and effective use of a variety of high-quality sources.
• Creativity and insight in both interpretation and presentation of information about the past.
Announcement of winner by June 9.
Questions? Contact Professor Pennock ppennock@umich.edu
2023
Fallon McCue, "Songs of the Civil War"
2022
First Prize: Elena Tyler, “Women Warriors, Nurses of the Civil War”
Second Prize: Quinn Whittaker, “Reconstruction of Dresden’s Baroque Structures”
2021
Cody McCain, “Tulips, Stars, and Swastikas: Esther Posner and the Posner Family in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands, 1940-45"
Patricia Floyd, “Disneyland is Your Land”