ASU Polytechnic campus junior thriving in the trenches of history 

By Maureen Roen
College of Integrative Sciences and Art, Arizona State University

If you’ve been looking for Arizona State University history major Scott Hilbrands at his usual haunts on the ASU Polytechnic campus this week, you’ll find him instead a few miles north — surrounded by sandbags at Mesa’s Falcon Field.

ASU Polytechnic campus history major Scott Hilbrands manned the WWI trench exhibit that the Poly History Club students produced. The exhibit was displayed for a week at the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum at Falcon Field.Hilbrands, a junior and president of the new Poly History Club, has been manning the club’s impressive WWI trench exhibit that is on display at the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum at Falcon Field.

The installation gives visitors a chance to imagine what prolonged time in a WWI trench might be like, while perusing artifacts and reading about the era.

For Hilbrands, the experience of working to research and produce the exhibit and bring history alive for others lines up precisely with the dreams he has for his future.

“I want to use my degree to not only preserve history but to help promote it to the public, whether that is through being a tour guide, archivist, college professor or historian,” said Hilbrands, dressed in the full regulation American WWI uniform that the club purchased.

“Getting people to realize that history is as vital to the world as math and science — and as exciting — is a dream of mine.”

The club members built the exhibition in October and November for the History Pop-Up Museum that students enrolled in history courses at ASU’s Polytechnic campus curate each semester.

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