Young Founders Living Museum
Every year, your 5th graders put incredible work into their Wax Museum projects. This year, the Colonial Heritage Festival wants to celebrate that hard work by bringing history to life on our main stages!
We are inviting select students to perform their historical monologues at the festival. This is a non-competitive showcase designed to give students a public platform and help our community engage with history.
The Details:
- When: July 2-4, 2026
- Where: Scera Park, 600 S State Street in Orem, UT
- Who: 5th Grade students with American Colonial-Era or Federal-Era wax museum projects.
If you have students who portray a character from 17th or 18th century America and who would excel in a public setting, please nominate them using the process described below. Here's an email template you can use to notify parents that their child (your student) has been nominated for this program. You can use the fields immediately below to customize the message for each of your students you nominate.
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Dear PARENT NAME,
I am reaching out because STUDENT NAME did such an outstanding job on the 5th Grade Wax Museum project this year. Because of the quality of the work and dedication to history, I have nominated STUDENT NAME to represent our school at the Colonial Heritage Festival this summer!
The festival has invited a select group of students to bring their historical characters to life on a public stage. This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate all their hard work, practice public speaking, commemorate 250 years since the founding of the United States of America.
Event Details:
- When: July 2-4, 2026
- Where: Scera Park, 600 S State Street in Orem, UT
- Flexibility: If you choose to participate, you will work with with the festival organizers to select which day and time slot works best for your family’s schedule.
Action Required: To accept the nomination, follow this link:
Nomination Acceptance Form
It will take you to the right place on the Colonial Heritage Festival website. You can read a bit more about this program on the Young Founders Living Museum page. And here's the link to the festival's home page for more information about the festival itself.
Colonial Heritage Festival Home Page
Look for the earphones icon in the bottom right corner for a guided audio tour that introuduces you to the festival.
This is a great educational opportunity and it's free to attend, even for folks not presenting, so please share this information about this festival with others.
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STUDENT NAME's Teacher
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We won't know that your students have been nominated until they either accept or decline the nomination. When they do, we'll send you an email. We'll also notify you when a decision is made about your student's participation and of the times when your students are presenting.
To be clear, the way you nominate your student is by this four-step process:
- Fill in your student's information in the "student nomination" box above
- Click the "Customize Message" button to build the email with the nomination information
- Send the information to the student's parent through your own email system
- Repeat the process for other students you wish to nominate. You may nominate any students who portray a person from 17th or 18th-century America
Feel free to edit the message after you copy it and before you send it, but be sure to send the "Nomination Acceptance Form" link unchanged, as it is encoded with important information about the nomination. If you want to see what the student's parent will see when they follow the link, go ahead and follow it yourself, but don't submit it on the student's behalf unless you have the parent's express permission.
Please contact Elary Hall, program coordinator, with any questions. elary@colonialheritage.org