Students from Evergreen Junior High (EJH), International Community School (ICS), Rose Hill Junior High (RHJH), Redmond Junior High (RJH) and Redmond High School (RHS) participated in the North Puget Sound Regional History Day competition on March 21 and will advance to the state competition held May 5 at Bellevue College.
Students competed at either the junior (grades 6-8) or senior (grades 9-12) level in the following categories: exhibits, papers, multi-media documentaries, original performances and websites. This year’s theme was “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.”
Junior Group Documentary:
• First Place: Mahi Elango, Sophia Tevosyan, Adarsh Karnati and Anand Nambakam (RJH) – “Perestroika: Destruction through Reconstruction.”
Junior Historical Paper:
• First place: Alex Okun (RJH) – “Castro’s Cuba: A Promise Given, A Promise Kept?”
• Second place: Richard Zhang (RJH) – “A Change in the Storm: Reform and Revolution in the Chinese Civil War.”
Junior Individual Website:
• First place: Kate Belokrylova (ICS) – “An Educated Step: Napoleonic Reform of Schools in Post-revolutionary France.”
• Third place: Steven Li (ICS) – “Seattle General Strike 1919: Labor Reform Paralyzes the Emerald City.”
• Third place: Laura Liao (ICS) – “Reforming America’s Melting Pot: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.”
In addition, Steven Li (ICS) won the Shoreline Historical Museum Local History Award.
Junior Group Website:
• Second place: Abigail Orler and Grace Wang (ICS) – “Earth Day 1970: Environmentalists React to Industrial Crisis.”
Junior Group Exhibit:
• First place: Celine Francois and Samantha Frankum (ICS) – “We Can Do It: Labor Reform in Oregon Canneries 1913.”
• Third place: Collin Hesson, Caelie Desmond and Michaela Fagerlie (RHJH) – “It’s Just that Important: Women’s Right to Vote.”
Senior Individual Documentary:
• Second place: Carlisle Boyle (EJH) – “Colonialism in the Caribbean: The Bitter Reality of Satisfying Europe’s Sweet Tooth.”
• Third place: Julian Pradeep (RJH) – “The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement and Alcohol in America: Submersing an Inebriated Past.”
Senior Group Documentary:
• First place: Tara Balakrishnan, Maya Balakrishnan, Lila Balakrishnan and Samhita Karnati (RHS) – “The Green Revolution.”
• Second place: Hana Keller and Lynsey Liu (RJH) – “Revolution in Music: Baroque to Classical.”
• Third place: Maxwell Schrempp, Jessica Jin, Ceri Riley and Nathan Maris (ICS) – “The NCCC Fights for Washington’s Mountains: An Environmental Revolution.”
Senior Individual Performance:
• Second place: Yena Han (ICS) – “Empress Min Reacts: The Hermit Kingdom Resists Japanese Imperialism.”
• Third place: J.D. Laurence-Chasen (ICS) – “The Devil’s Music: America’s Reaction to the Rock n’ Roll Revolution.”
Senior Group Performance:
• First place: Rachel Roberts and Aishwarya Nirmal (ICS) – “Liberty and Justice for All: Gideon v. Wainwright’s Revolution in Courtroom.”
• Second place: Celia Langford and Poornima Dani (EJH) – “See Who Goes Her Own Way.”
• Third place: Jessica Loksh and Emma Shipman (RHJH) – “Hanakotoba: The Revolution that Gripped the Planet.”
Senior Individual Exhibit:
• First place: Meghana Noonavath (RHS) – “The Glorious Revolution: Britain’s Momentous Coup d’état of Absolutism.”
Senior Group Exhibit:
• Second place: Victoria Baca, Melissa Messett, Emily Nuri, Megumi Tamai and Anna Tole (RHJH) – “Tuskegee Airmen: Flying for Equality, Sparking a Revolution.”
• Third place: Jason Ruffin and Kana Moriyama (RJH) – “The Ford Model T: Steering America in a New Direction.”
Senior Individual Website:
• Second place: Katie Brandao (RHJH) – “Let’s Get to Work: The Revolution, Reaction and Reform Jobs for Women During World War II.”
Senior Group Website:
• First place: Maile Allan, Helen Simecek, Maeve O’Connor and Jessica Newton (RHJH) – “The Miracle Drug: The Revolution, Reaction and Reform of Penicillin.”
• Second place: Adarsh Mital and Jason Lee (ICS) – “The Green Revolution: Advancing Food Security.”
