Lindisfarne Grammar student Eden Tokatly has been named Year 7 Winner for New South Wales in the 2012 National History Challenge.
The competition is organised and run by the History Teachers’ Assoc-iation of Australia.
This annual research-based competition encour-ages students to use research and inquiry-based learning to discover more about the past. It gives students a chance to be an historian, researching world history, examining Australia’s past, investigating their community and exploring their own roots.
It emphasises and rewards quality research, the use of community resources and effective presentation.
On Tuesday, October 23, Eden attended a presentation ceremony in the Jubilee Room at Parliament House, Sydney, together with her family and her teacher, Mrs Jan Makepeace.
Eden was awarded a medallion and prize money for her essay written on the theme for 2012 “People and Consequences”. She analysed the impact of the artist Vincent van Gogh, who departed from painting realism, thus encouraging people’s creativity in history.
