ABU DHABI, 23rd April, WAM / The Archives and the National Library continue to receive entries for the thirteenth edition of the Young Historian Award from targeted school students.

The organizing committee of the award expressed its happiness with the distinguished student turnout for the award, and the level of participating work.

Hamad Salim Al-Hamiri, Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Young Historian Award, said that the topic “Sustainability in the United Arab Emirates” was added to the rest of the award’s topics in order to shed light on sustainability issues and to enhance scientific research among student circles. He stressed that the award aims to develop the skills of young people and encourage them to excel, and to explode their creative energies in scientific and field research. He added that the Archive and the National Library will continue to receive student participation until the first week of May 2023, and our goal is to advance the thinking of young people as an active group in society, and to discover student national skills. In a related context, the participating student works will be judged during the second and third weeks of next May, while the names of the winning students will be announced, and the honoring ceremony will be organized in the second week of June 2023.

The winning student works will be documented in court books issued by the Archives and the National Library, similar to recent publications, to serve as a reference for researchers in matters related to the topics of the award. It should be noted that the Young Historian Award, in its new version, targets students from the fifth to the twelfth grade, and the field of writing research is devoted to the students of the third cycle from the ninth to the twelfth grade, while participation in the award is limited to the students of the second cycle from the fifth to the eighth by preparing reports on a side aspects of social, economic or geographical life in the Emirates. The Young Historian Award 2023 includes the following categories: oral history, geographical history, economic history, social history, and Emirati studies. As for the reports required in the 13th session, they are regarding: the story of an institution in which the student writes ten pages regarding the history of an institution, its development and its role in achieving the vision of the state, or regarding a book translated from English into Arabic regarding the United Arab Emirates; The student summarizes its content and expresses his opinion on it.