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. Watch here!
- Film, 2nd prize: The Yarmouth Clam Festival by Chris Noreika of North Yarmouth Academy. Watch here!
Papers
- Paper, 1st prize: The Portland Observatory: Portland’s Greatest Historical Landmark by Ethan Sweeney of North Yarmouth Academy. Read it here!
- Paper, 2nd prize: Connection and Controversy: Yarmouth’s Opposition to Interstate 295 by Matthew Dressel of Yarmouth High School. Read it here!
- Paper, 3rd prize: Brunswick and the Civil War by Sadie Swenson of North Yarmouth Academy. Read it here!
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.
