A group of La Vega students made school history by winning Texas History Day and earning a spot at the national competition.<\/p>\n
WACO, Texas \u2014 A group of sixth graders from La Vega Independent School District has earned a trip to the national stage after placing first in their category at Texas History Day \u2014 a first for the district.<\/p>\n
Students Campbell Baldwin, Sariyah Dancer, T\u2019Najah Gilliam and Riley Satchell stood out with an oral presentation focused on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. The unit made history as the only all-Black, all-female battalion deployed overseas during World War II.<\/p>\n
The competition pushes students to explore historical topics in depth, building research-based projects and presenting them in a variety of formats. With their win, the La Vega team will move on to compete at nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of La Vega students made school history by winning Texas History Day and earning a spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-246737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}