An Afternoon at the Charles County HITS Expo - 2026

On Saturday March 21 Charles County Public Schools once again held its History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo at St Charles High School in Waldorf, Maryland.  There were forty-five tables and six classroom activities/presentations sponsored by different organizations and school groups with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on with a variety of hands-on activities to engage the students (and the adults).

CCASM's tables included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science as well as a display with most aspects of an investigation from digging shovel test pits to writing the report.  But most of our table space was devoted to two activities.  One was called "Archaeologists Dig for Clues" and the other was called "What is it?"  We had fun working with the students and their parents as they completed the activities.

Happy to be at the HITS Expo

Completing What Is It? test

Learning about artifacts 

Thanks to Claudia, Denise, Linda, and Carol for being there to interact with the students and their parents.  Also thanks to Ned for helping to set up.

Click to see the winner of the special History Day award sponsored by the Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc.

An Afternoon at the Charles County Expo - 2025

On Saturday March 22 Charles County Public Schools once again held its History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo at St Charles High School in Waldorf, Maryland.  There were thirty-seven tables and six classroom activities/presentations sponsored by different organizations and school groups with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on.  There were a variety of hands-on activities to engage the students (and the adults), and there were lots of people.  Initial feedback was this was the largest audience in the nine years of the EXPO.

One of CCASM's tables included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science.  The other table contained an activity we call "Archaeologists Dig for Clues" to show how archaeologist learn about a location and people from what they have left behind.  We also had miscellaneous artifacts and photos to share.  We didn't count the number of students completing the activity but we were able to interact with a number of children as well as with their parents.

 

Interacting with children (and parents)

Talking about archaeology and CCASM

Thanks to Linda, Elsie, Claudia, Ned, and Carol for being there to interact with the students and their parents. 

Click to see the winners of the special History Day award and the Science Fair Archaeology award sponsored by the Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc.

 

An Afternoon at the Charles County Expo - 2024

On Saturday March 9 Charles County Public Schools once again held its History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo at St Charles High School in Waldorf, Maryland.  There were forty-one tables and seven classroom activities/presentations sponsored by different organizations and school groups with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on.  There were a variety of hands-on activities to engage the students (and the adults).

One of CCASM's tables included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science.  The other table contained an activity we call "Archaeologists Dig for Clues".  We didn't count the number of students completing the activity but we were able to interact with a number of children as well as with their parents.
 

CCASM Table with display and activity

Looks like a fun conversation

Thanks to Elsie Ned, Denise, and Linda for being there to interact with the students and their parents. 

Click to see the winner of the special History Day award sponsored by the Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc.

Thanks to Linda for the photos.

An Afternoon at the Charles County HITS Expo - 2023

On Saturday March 11 Charles County Public Schools once again held its History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo at St Charles High School in Waldorf, Maryland.  There were forty-four tables and nine classroom activities/presentations sponsored by different organizations and school groups with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on.  There was a variety of hands-on activities to engage the students (and the adults).

Display and Activity

Family at CCASM Table
with other tables in background

One of CCASM's tables included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science.  But most of our table space contained an activity we call "Archaeologists Dig for Clues".  We didn't count the number of students completing the activity but we were busy all afternoon - not only with the children, but also with the parents.
 

Quite Busy

 

Sharing what we found

Archaeology is fun

What is it?

Thanks to Elsie Ned, Peggy, and Carol for being there to interact with the students and their parents.  

Click to see the winners of the special History Day and  special Science Fair awards sponsored by the Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland, Inc.

An Afternoon at the Charles County H.I.T.S. Expo 2022

On March 12, a snowy Saturday, Charles County Public Schools once again held its History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo at St Charles High School in Waldorf, Maryland.  There were thirty-eight tables and six classroom activities/presentations sponsored by different organizations and school groups with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on.  There was a variety of hands-on activities to engage the students (and the adults).

  

One of CCASM's tables included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science.  But most of our table space contained an activity we call "Archaeologists Dig for Clues".  We didn't count the number of students completing the activity but we were busy all afternoon - not only with the children, but also with the parents. 

Thanks to Linda, Ned, and Carol for being there to interact with the students and their parents. 

An Afternoon at the Charles County H.I.T.S. Expo

On Saturday March 7  Charles County held its fifth Annual History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo.  There were forty-nine tables and eight classroom activities/presenations sponsored by different organizations with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on.  There was a variety of hands-on activities to engage the students (and the adults).

One of CCASM's tables included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science.  But most of our table space contained an activity we call "Archaeologists Dig for Clues".  Over sixty students completed the activity.  And we talked to several parents that also expressed an interest in archaeology.

Thanks to Linda, Doug, Denise, and Carol for being there to interact with the students and their parents. 

An Afternoon at the Charles County H.I.T.S. Expo

On Saturday March 16  Charles County held its fourth Annual History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo.  There were forty-five table and seven classroom activities/displays sponsored by different organizations with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on.  There were a lot of hands-on activities to engage the students.

One of CCASM's tables included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science.  But most of our table space contained an activity we call "Archaeologists Dig for Clues".  Over seventy students completed the activity.  We know because we had sixty "I Dig Archaeology' stickers at the beginning of the afternoon.  We gave a sticker to most students that completed the activity, and we ran out.

Thanks to Denise, Mary, Linda, and Carol for being there to interact with the students and their parents. 

A Day at the 2018 Charles County H.I.T.S. Expo

On Saturday March 24  Charles County held its third Annual History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo.  There were forty-five table and six classroom activities/displays with CCASM having two of the tables.  A lot was going on.  CCASM's table included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science as well as activities around identifying Native American artifacts.

We would like to thank Elsie, Denise, Carol, and Barbara for staffing the display table.

A Day at the 2017 Charles County H.I.T.S. Expo

On Saturday March 18  Charles County held its second Annual History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo.  There were forty-seven table and classroom activities/displays with CCASM having one of them.  A lot was going on.  CCASM's table included a display depicting the various archaeological skills related to history and science as well as examples of artifacts found in Charles County.

We would like to thank Barbara and Elsie for staffing the display table.

A Day at the 2016 Charles County H.I.T.S. Expo

In 2016 Charles County had its first (hopefully) Annual History, Industry, Technology, and Science (H.I.T.S.) Expo.  Both the Charles County History Day and the Charles County Science Fair were held in the morning with awards being presented in the late afternoon.  (CCASM provided both a history award and a science award as well as judges for the science award.)

Something else different this year was that organizations sponsoring awards were invited to participate in an Expo from 12pm-4pm.  There were forty-seven table presentations and displays with CCASM having one of them.  A lot was going on.  Jim, Carol, Elsie, and Barbara manned the display table.

If you look at the display table (2nd photo), you will see a few remaining copies of American Archaeology, the magazine of The Archaeological Conservancy.   Kelley Berliner from the East Regional Office  provided these for us to hand out.  Thanks Kelley.   For more information here is the link to The Archaeological Conservancy website.   (Kelley used to work with us at Port Tobacco before she went to graduate school.)

Also on the display table, you will see a big question mark on a box where people could leave "questions for the archaeologist".  In future blogs we will be answering the questions.