Students from Sunrise Elementary School; Canyon Park, Leota, Northshore and Timbercrest junior high schools; and Bothell and Woodinville high schools presented their historical interpretations and projects before panels of judges at the Washington State National History Day competition held May 3. Eight projects qualified for the National History Day competition to be held June 15-19, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.
Northshore Junior High School was awarded the Most Outstanding School trophy for the second year in a row and Northshore Junior High School student Mark Ikeda received the Washington State Historical Society Award for his project.
National qualifiers include:
Junior Group Performance
Second Place: Megan Rogers, Sophie Hall, Timbercrest Junior High School
Title: School Integration – The Dream and the Struggle for Education Equality
Junior Individual Performance
Second Place: Katie Orr, Northshore Junior High
Title: DDT; Protect Today or Protect Tomorrow
Senior Individual Performance
Second Place: Anael Kuperwajs, Timbercrest Junior High
Title: Lewis Hine and the National Child Labor Committee: Rights, Responsibilities, and Reform
Northshore students bound for National History Day competition:
Junior Individual Website
First Place: Gina Svab, Northshore Junior High
Title: A Dangerous Workplace: Triangle Factory Fire
Senior Group Website
First Place: Cameron Hudson, Ryan Turner, Abbey Carson, Timbercrest Junior High
Title: Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act: The Right to Advertise
Senior Group Documentary
First Place: Eric Zhu, Jake Millman, Ray Fung, Jeffrey Maxwell, Northshore Junior High
Title: “Miranda v. Arizona: Liberty and Justice for All”
Junior Group Exhibit
First Place: Sierra McKissick, Karoline Wucherer, Timbercrest Junior High
Title: Don’t Drop the Ball on Title IX
Junior Individual Exhibit
Second Place: Scott Iwafuchi, Northshore Junior High
Title: The Civil Rights Cases: The Five Cases That Forever Changed The Perception of American Civil Rights
Additional state results:
Junior Individual Performance
Third Place: Kaja Aagaard, Northshore Junior High
Title: Dr. Seuss: Drawing Towards Victory
Fourth Place: Caelan Wisont, Timbercrest Junior High
Title: Prohibition – The Failure of Our Government and the Mass Criminalization of America
Northshore Students Bound for National History Day Competition
Fifth Place: Kira Fontana, Timbercrest Junior High
Title: Child Labor During the British Industrial Revolution: The Responsibility to Establish Children’s Rights
Sixth Place: Lauren McDonald, Northshore Junior High
Title: Stealing a Kingdom – The United States Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy
Junior Paper
Sixth Place: Maddie Seidel, Canyon Park Junior High
Title: Mercury 13 – The 13 Women Who Dared to Reach for the Stars
Junior Individual Website
Fourth Place: Andrew Nguyen, Northshore Junior High
Title: The Pentagon Papers – Is Silence Golden?
Sixth Place: Kate Companion Sunrise Elementary
Title: Theodore Roosevelt – The Conservation President
Junior Group Website
Fifth Place: Helena Senturia, Leah Matthews, Timbercrest Junior High
Title: Velodrome d’Hiver – The Roundup
Junior Individual Documentary
Fourth Place: Ryan Check, Leota Junior High
Title: Crew Resource Management – Empowering Airline Safety
Fifth Place: Simon Jones, Northshore Junior High
Title: McCarthyism – A Red Tide Sweeping the Nation
Northshore Students Bound for National History Day Competition
Sixth Place: Mark Ikeda Northshore Junior High
Title: National Security vs. Individual Rights: Japanese Americans and World War II
*Received Washington State Historical Society Award
Senior Individual Documentary
Fourth Place: Luke Mollerup, Leota Junior High
Title: How the Death of One Pig Nearly Sparked a War
Junior Individual Exhibit
Third Place: Emre Aksan, Northshore Junior High
Title: The Black Panther Party – Empowering African Americans To Determine Their Own Destiny
Fourth Place: Rachel Gurevich, Northshore Junior High
Title: The Pentagon Papers – Freedom of the Press
Sixth Place: Natalie Garofano Leota Junior High
Title: The Native American Boarding School: A Dark and Forgotten Era
Junior Group Exhibit
Sixth Place: Chloe Stedman, Tori Harding, Timbercrest Junior High
Title: The Salem Witch Trials: When Courts Were Overrun By Myth
