​â¶Ä‹â€‹â¶Ä‹â€‹SAN JOSE, CA - On Saturday, February 24, students from throughout the county met to participate in the National History Day competition at​â¶Ä‹ º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø Office of Education.
National History Day is an academic enrichment program for students in grades 4​-12. Students select topics connected to an annual theme and complete in-depth research on the topic. This year, the theme is "Conflict & Compromise in History" which requires students to explore history through multiple perspectives.
Students present their conclusions by creating museum-style exhibits, media documentaries, research papers, interactive websites, and dramatic performances.
The top competitors in the county are:
Documentary – Junior Division Individual
- First Place: Through the ​Eyes of Tereshkova and Ride: Sexism, the Cold War and Outer Space - Madison Abbassi
- Second Place: Excessive Police Brutality towards the African American community: Are We Really Making Progress? - Malaika Mirza
Documentary – Junior Division Group
- First Place: The Conflict and Compromise of the Vietnam War - Dawson Lau & Andy Dang
Documentary – Senior Division Group
- First Place: Billie Jean King: Queen of Tennis - Hannah Do, Alicia Qian, Khanhthy Le
- Second Place: Conflicts over Free Speech: Supreme Court Compromises - Tsuki Carlson, Lauren Lin, Arianna Kertsman
- Third Place: All Love and No Haight: Redefining the Hippie Era - Amanda Lee, Czarlene Palima, Sriya Mudigonda
Exhibit – Youth Division Grade 4-5 Individual
- First Place: The Doll Who Changed It All - Adhya Sarin
Exhibit – Junior Division Individual
- First Place: The Journey to the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Catalina Degnan
- Second Place: Conflict - Women in Combat - Mackenzie Madden
Exhibit – Junior Division Group
- First Place: Cuban Missile Crisis - Cesly Carrillo, Lissette Rodriguez Serrano, Kianna Quinones, Justine Nguyen, Valerie Hernandez
- Second Place: The Korean War Armistice - Kaylynn Tran, Gia Khanh Ton Nu, Angela Samonte, Lauren Ramirez
- Third Place: Rodgers and Hammerstein Breaking Boundaries in Musical Theater - Ashni Sheth, Emmy Apfel, Mia Wurster
Exhibit – Senior Division Individual
- First Place: Women in the Workforce during the 1930s-1940s - Brianna McColm
Exhibit – Senior Division Group
- First Place: The Birth of Modern Iran - Cia Varelas, Annabel Goldman
- Second Place: Religious Freedom in an Islamic Empire - Hannah Middler, Alia Singh
Historical Papers – Junior Individual
- First Place: Making Peace in a Divided City: Conflict and Compromise in Berlin - Rupert Chen
- Second Place: The Mexican-American War - Rathan Maule
- Third Place: The Napoleonic Wars: The Fiery Path to European Peace - Vikram Valame
Historical Papers – Senior Individual
- First Place: Korean War: The Conflict and Compromise that impacted the Post-WWII Stalemate - Ethan Liu
- Second Place: Compromise: The Development of Chinese Feminism - Sho Leigh Ho
- Third Place: Divine Wind: The Battle of Tsushima - Daniel Qu
Performance – Junior
- First Place: Japanese Internment: Was the Civil Liberties Act Enough - Sabrina Ahmed, Kaylene Yee
Performance – Senior
- First Place: The Forgotten Story of Miss Hamilton - Mukki Sahiwal, Megan Foreman
Website – Junior Individual
- First Place: The Yalta Conference: A Fleeting Peace - Amanda Cheng
- Second Place: Marching for Freedom: The Salt March - Neil Shah
- Third Place: Earth Day and Climate Change - Devyn Betts
Website – Junior Group
- First Place: Jackie Robinson: From Compromise to Civic Rights Activism - Brodie Guggenhime, Katie Brenner
- Second Place: Shandmauer: How the Berlin Wall Split and Unified Germany - Melissa Zales, Radha Ramanathan
- Third Place: What is a Day without Women Like- Sutchie Ofori-Nyako, Gabby Lewis, Emma Speiser
Website – Senior Individual
- First Place: Pollution of Truth: Rachel Carson's Actions for Compromise in the Chemical Industry - Tuan Le
- Second Place: Conflict and Compromise: Articles of Confederation - Mira Chiruvolu
- Third Place: Versailles: The Treaty that Triggered Trouble - Harshini Manian
Website – Senior Group
- First Place: Roe v Wade: the compromise that failed to end conflict - Riley Guggenhime, Suzanna Wang, Annabelle Ross
- Second Place: Espionage through Different Lenses - Sanjana Melkote, Divya Subbiah
- Third Place: Ancient India and Persia: Lessons of Religious Conflict and Benefits of Compromise - Catherine Debenham, Tobey Solomon, Ali Dimitreli
​First place winners from each category will be honored at the º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø Board of Education meeting on March 7 and advance to the state competition to be held May 5-6 at William Jessup University in Rocklin California.
National History Day is one of many projects designed to promote nonpartisan civic engagement and education initiatives in º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø.
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