ACT National History Challenge

Congratulations to all the students and their teachers who participated in the National History Challenge this year. It was wonderful to have the opportunity to celebrate the work of History students across the ACT. Thank you to Museum of Australian Democracy for hosting this year’s ceremony.

Th2 2025 recipient of the ACT Young Historian was Skye McKinnon from Campbell High School.

If you click on the image, you’ll be taken to a video of the ACT Chief Minister announcing the recipient.

Thank you to all the Cultural Institutions that continuously support not only the competition but also the ACT History Teachers Association. And, a thank you to Andrew Barr MLA for their support of the NHC. 

The 2026 theme for the NHC is ‘Voices’.

ACT NHC Coordinators: Ann Parry (aparry49@gmail.com) & Josh Lloyd

ACT Young Historians of the Year

2025 – Skye McKinnon, Campbell High School

2024 – Alec Wilson, Radford College

2023 – Victor Li, Canberra Grammar School

2022 – Elizabeth van der Walt, Canberra Girls Grammar School

2021 – Sonia Vlatkovic, Radford College

2020 – Chanhyeok Wang, Telopea Park School

2019 – Zachary Johnston, Marist College Canberra

2018 – Elizabeth Spollard, Burgmann Anglican School

2017 – Ineka Voigt, Hawker College (& National Historian recipient in 2017)

2015 – Ineka Voigt, Canberra High School (& National Historian recipient in 2015)