State History

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded medals at New York History Day held April 29th in Cooperstown.  First and second place winners will advance to the National History Day competition held at the Univesity of Maryland June 9-13.

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place:

“A Lifetime of Struggle and Triumph: Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
Student: Ana Dobrot
Victor Junior High School, Farmington, NY

2^nd Place:

“Japan’s Path to Modernization: A History of Triumphs and Tragedies”
Student: Ricky Chen
Berner Middle School, Massapequa Park, NY

3rd Place:

“A Return of Nazi Looted Art: A Triumph After Tragedy”
Student:  Abigail Khaytman
Woodmere Middle School, Hewlett, NY

 

Senior Historical Paper

1^st Place:

“The Cowboy Costume Incident: The Triumph and Tragedy of American Consumer Capitalism”
Student: Amogh Dimri
Columbia Secondary School

2^nd Place:

“Triumph in the Wake of Tragedy: The Work of the Love Canal Homeowners Association in the Face of an Environmental Disaster and Government Incompetence”
Student: Caroline Fortmeyer
Hauppauge High School, Hauppauge, Ny

3^rd Place:

“Love, Loss, and AIDS: How Activism Changed the Course of an Epidemic in the United States”
Student: Talia Winiarsky
Horace Mann School, New York, NY

 

Junior Individual Performance

1^st Place:

“The Tragedy and Triumph of ‘Typhoid Mary’: Victim or Villain? How Mary Mallon’s Plight Contributed to Medicine”
Student: Lauren Marchand
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

2^nd Place:

“Some Discoveries Are Worth Dying For: The Life of Marie Curie”
Student: Jessica Charalel
Felix Festa Character Middle School, New City, NY

3^rd Place:

“The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Early 1960s”
Student: Katherine Powell
Mill Middle School, Buffalo, NY

 

Senior Individual Performance

1^st Place:

“A Murder to make Masses Seen: The Tragic Romanov Fall Paving the Way for Bolshevik Triumph”
Student: Emma Melnikob
The Wheatley School, Roslyn Heights, NY

2^nd Place:

“A Hessian Perspective”
Student: Phillip Winter
York Prep School, New York, NY

3^rd Place:

“’Cherokee vs. Georgia”
Student:  Felisha Ma
Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, NY

 

Junior Group Performance

1^st Place:

“ ‘Without Hope Life is Not Worth Living’ The Harvey Milk Story”
Students: Harley Honig, Michael Heyman, Sydney Honig
Woodmere Middle School, Hewlett Harbor, NY

2nd Place:

“Lois Gibbs: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Mother and a Mission”
Students: Celeste Zhang, Dheyaia Simrin, Sanjana Lodha, Tiffany Leo
Herricks Middle School, New Hyde Park, NY

3^rd Place:

“The Tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the Triumph of Workers’ Rights”
Students: Karen Figueroa, Claudio Penate, Lesly Torres
Enrico Fermi School for the Performing Arts, Yonkers, NY

 

Senior Group Performance

1^st Place:

“Scrubbing Away the Blackness: The Plight of the Stolen Aboriginal Generation”
Students: Selina Chiang, Brace Kim, Maggie Lau, Emily Wei
Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, NY

2^nd Place:

“The Cutter Incident: A Triumph Over Polio and the Tragedy of Vaccine Malpractice”
Students:  Yeseul Choi, Sarah Leung, Penny Wang, Anna Xia
Stuyvesant High School, New York City

3rd Place:

“Behind the Scenes of Beauty: The Triumph of Audrey Munson”
Students: Katie Dolce, Vincent Gerardi, Peter Proscia, Rose Recce, Michael Seda
Hauppauge High School, Hauppauge, NY

Junior Individual Website

1st Place:

“The Spiritual Triumph of Wladyslaw Szpilman: Resistance in the Face of Tragedy”
Student: Kevin Zhu
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

2nd Place:

“Crime of the Century: The Tragic Kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr.”
Student: Kaitlyn Choi
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

3rd Place:

“The Price of Uniting a Nation”
Student: Narju Nawar
MS 101 Edward R. Byrne School, Bronx, NY

 

Senior Individual Website

1^st Place:

“Tragedy Destroys Triumph: Christa McAuliffe and The Challenger Disaster”
Student: Nicholas Cinnamo
Academy of American Studies, Queens, NY

2^nd Place:

“The NYC Landmarks Law”
Student: Aditi Haiman
Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY

3^rd Place:

“The Other Man: Peter Norman’s Neverending Race”
Student: Brian Curtis
Tappan Zee High School, Tappan, NY

 

Junior Group Website

1^st Place:

“World War II’s Tragic Triumph in the Pacific”
Students: Lawson Wright, Pierce Wright
St. Bernard’s School, New York, NY

2nd Place:

“Breeding Perfection: The Tragedy of the Eugenics Movement”
Students: Andy Liu, Angela Zhou, Nancy Tao
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

3rd Place:

“A Train Ride to Hope:The Kindertransport”
Students: Abigail Lampert, Farrah Crane, Meira Weinstein, Rebecca Brown, Tamara Saffra
Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Long Island, NY

 

Senior Group Website

1^st Place:

“The India Partition: A Line Drawn in Blood”
Students: David Xiang, David Zhang, Gurvir Singh
Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, NY

2^nd Place:

"Menelik II: the Rise and Fall of Ethiopia”
Students: T.J. Curran, Ben Davis, Earl Gretzinger, George McCormick, Conner Randall
Bronxville High School, Bronxville, NY

3^rd Place:

“Scorched Earth: The Tragedy of Napalm and the Triumph of the Anti-War Movement”
Students: Amanda Chen, George Dong, Rayan Islam, Darius Jankauskas, Joseph Yu
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY

 

Junior Individual Documentary

1^st Place:

“A Blaze for Workers’ Rights: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”
Student: Jane Fanning
Farnsworth Middle School, East Berne, NY

2nd Place:

“Alan Turing: From His Triumphant Life to Tragic Death”
Student: Julia Meyerson
Pelham Middle School, Pelham, NY

3rd Place:

“The White Rose Resistance Group: Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi Germany”
Student: Nicolas Ditieri
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

 

Senior Individual Documentary

1st Place:

“Triumph & Tragedy of the Life of Ryan White & AIDS”
Student: Lucas Cavanaugh
Hauppauge High School, Happauge, NY

2^nd Place:

“Philo Farnsworth: The Inventor of Television’s Triumph and Tragedy”
Student: Helen Meyerson
Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, NY

3^rd Place:

“The Elaine Race Riot: The Red Summer Tragedy”
Student: Mariam Kaawar
Academy of American Studies, Queens, NY

 

Junior Group Documentary

1st Place:

“Tragedy of Loving in Virginia & The Triumph of Marriage Equality For All”
Students:  Michelle Flores, Heidi Garcia, Kayley Rodriquez, Jennifer Valdera
Enrico Fermi School for the Performing Arts, Yonkers, NY

2nd Place:

“The Hits Just Keep Coming: Brain Injuries in Professional Football”
Students: Aharon Cohen, Benjy Fried, Marc Matlis, Moshe Rattner, Shmuli Glick
Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Long Island, NY

3^rd Place:

“Built From the Ashes: Chicago”
Students: Daniel Grosz, Jonah Mehlman, Judah Rosenthal, Raz Amar, Zevi Friedman
Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Long Island, NY

 

Senior Group Documentary

1st Place:

“The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Courage Knows No Number”
Students: Aarya Agarwal, Abhinav Goyal, Aditya Lodha, Prameet Shah
Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, NY

2nd Place:

“Unit 731: The Unpunished Scientists Behind the Japanese Holocaust”
Students: Andrew Knowles, Ryan Knowles, Julien Rentsch, Paul Katigbak
Huntington High School, Huntington, NY

3rd Place:

“A City Versus Its People: The Tragedy of San Juan Hill and the Triumph of Lincoln Center”
Students: Zoe Davis, Lena Farley, Allen Wang
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY

 

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place:

“The Terrifying Story of the Spanish Influenza: A Tragedy Far Worse Than the War”
Student: Ethan Na
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

2nd Place:

“Child Labor in the Coal Mines”
Student: Sofia Pedram
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

3rd Place:

“Betrayed by Their Own Homeland: The Tragic Internment of Japanese Americans”
Student: Natalie Socci
HB Thompson Middle School, Woodbury, NY

 

Senior Individual Exhibit

1st Place:

“The Real Housewives of the Lower East Side: The 1902 Kosher Meat Boycott”
Student: Rahul Ajmera
The Wheatley School, East Williston, NY

2nd Place:

“The Iron Horse’s Stampede Through America: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Transcontinental Railroad”
Student: Gabby Nakkab
George W. Hewlett High School, North Woodmere, NY

3^rd Place:

“Outer Influences in Iran: The Choices That Changed a Country”
Student: Amir Yaghoobi
Bronxville High School, Bronxville, NY

 

Junior Group Exhibit

1st Place:

“D-Day”
Students: Christian Holden, Michael Granelli, Nicholas La Rosa
North Shore Middle School, Glen Head, NY

2nd Place:

“Emmett Till: The Murder that Would Spark the Civil Rights Movement”
Student: Diya Gurnami, Krishna Chalise
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

3^rd Place:

“’Deeds Not Words’: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Suffragettes”
Students: Emily Kawakami, Emily Zhu
Jericho Middle School, Jericho, NY

 

Senior Group Exhibit

1st Place:

 “Tragedy of the Great Fire and Triumph of Skyscraper City”
Students: Christy Guan, Hana Kim
Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY

2^nd Place:

“Using Mathematics and Perseverance to Save Lives During World War II: Alan Turing’s Triumphal Contribution and the Tragedy of Intolerance”
Students: Ian Isseks, Julia Klayman, Kira Grossman
George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, NY

3rd Place:

“The Easter Rising of 1916: The Tragic Fight for an Independent Ireland”
Students: Amisha Brahmbhatt, Prableen Kaur, Roshni Patel, Sarah Ninan
Herricks High School, New Hyde Park, NY