By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

The moment was tense on Thursday as judges announced winners at National History Day at the University of Maryland. Quinn and Ethan Schneider were waiting nervously to find out if they had won a medal in the Junior Group Documentary category for their 10-minute film “Hydroelectric Carolinas: How a visionary idea and a chance partnership transformed the Carolinas forever.”

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The brothers, the sons of Lore Postman Schneider and Patrick Schneider of Huntersville, were among 2,800 middle and high school students from around the country who advanced to the national finals by winning state competitions this spring. Competition was fierce in the contest, which had 9 categories at junior and senior levels – all focused on the theme “Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events.”

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Quinn, 14, and Ethan Schneider, 12, of Huntersville won first place in the 2013 National History Day U.S. finals at the University of Maryland Thursday. They won in the Junior Group Documentary category for their 10-minute film “Hydroelectric Carolinas: How a visionary idea and a chance partnership transformed the Carolinas forever.” Click to watch.

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By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

MOORESVILLE – President Barack Obama wanted to make a point about the importance of technology in schools, so he toured Mooresville Middle School Thursday and then announced a federal program to bring high-speed internet to most U.S. schools within five years. Read the full story

— Helicopters hovered over Lake Norman Wednesday, June 5, as emergency workers from a half-dozen fire and EMS departments from Charlotte to Lincoln County continued three days of specialized water rescue training. Angela Poffenbaugh produced this video report. (Can’t see the player? Go directly to the video YouTube.)

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Helicopters hovered over Lake Norman Wednesday as emergency workers from a half-dozen fire and EMS departments from Charlotte to Lincoln County continued three days of specialized water rescue training. The exercise concludes Thursday in a finger of the lake in eastern Lincoln County. Read the full story

LAKE NORMAN – Some of the world’s top professional wakeboarders will be on Lake Norman this weekend, competing in the second of eight stops on the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour. The event comes as the sport is in the midst of a growth spurt, according to Josh Palma, a 28-year-old pro. Read more in SPORTS»

UPDATE: We’ve got the results from Saturday’s finals, as well as photos from the semifinals taken by reader Rick Short. See “Australian Clifford wins wakeboard competition”

The skies over the Davidson and Cornelius were full of old flying machines in recent days, as a traveling show called the CAF Airpower History Tour stopped at Concord Regional Airport. Robert Taylor shares a couple of shots.  Read more about the planes at the tour website.

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