Yarmouth History Center is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 Wellcome Prize for Student Historians!
Films
- Film, 1st prize: The Battle of Portland Harbor by Adam Strobel, Kevin Carr, and Ella Cameron of Yarmouth High School
- Film, 2nd prize: The Yarmouth Clam Festival by Chris Noreika of North Yarmouth Academy
Papers
- Paper, 1st prize: The Portland Observatory: Portland’s Greatest Historical Landmark by Ethan Sweeney of North Yarmouth Academy
- Paper, 2nd prize: Connection and Controversy: Yarmouth’s Opposition to Interstate 295 by Matthew Dressel of Yarmouth High School
- Paper, 3rd prize: Brunswick and the Civil War by Sadie Swenson of North Yarmouth Academy
Please join us at the History Center at 7:00pm on Wednesday, November 20 to hear from our award-winning student historians and filmmakers as they present their work. This event is free and open to all. Congratulations to all of our winners!
The Wellcome Prize is Yarmouth History Center’s student history competition, which is open to high school students in Maine. Students are invited to undertake original historical research about a local history topic related to Cumberland County and write a research paper or make a film about their findings. Entries are judged on the quality of research and presentation and winners are invited to share their findings with the public as part of the History Center’s fall lecture series. More information about the prize is available here.
