This project by E.B. Frink Middle School students Meadow Jones, Everett Rouse and Michael Barrow finished third in regional National History Day competition and will compete against other regional qualifiers from around the state later this month. Submitted photo.

A three-student team from E.B. Frink Middle School has qualified for state-level National History Day competition after the team’s project won honors at the regional event at East Carolina University last week.

Eighth-graders Meadow Jones, Everett Rouse and Michael Barrow finished third in the junior exhibit category with a project headlined “Tear Down This Wall.”

Entries that placed in the top three in Greenville moved on to state competition. Like the regional competition, held April 15, the state event will be conducted virtually because of restrictions related to the coronavirus outbreak. State winners are expected to be announced May 4.

The students’ project used photos, graphics and written narrative to trace the key moments of the Cold War standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States, including the division of Berlin, construction of the Berlin Wall and its dismantling nearly 30 years later.

“This competition is an extraordinary competitive one and I could not be prouder of their accomplishment,” E.B. Frink social studies teacher Chadwick Stokes said of his students.