History Fair Students Earn Top Honors at National History Day!

The Chicago Metro History Education Center is pleased to announce that the following student projects from its program will be representing Illinois at the National History Day contest in College Park, Maryland, June 11-15.

Junior Division (grades 6-8)

Papers

• Chelsea Farmer
  Ogden Elementary (Calderon)
  "Architectural Preservation Pioneer"
• Jonathan Spalding
  M.L. King, Jr. Lab (Tobey)
  "J. Robert Oppenheimer: His Fight Against Nuclear Proliferation"

Documentaries

• Sophia Gomez-Doyle and Olivia Jackson Daniels
  Ogden Elementary (Calderon)
  "Dance Revolution: How Martha Graham Expanded the Boundaries of Dance"
• Torry Walker, Malcom Bailey, Lamar Gary
  Newberry Math and Science Academy (Cipriani)
  "Hip Hop History"
• Omar Messina
  

  Orozco Academy (Lemoine)
  "C.O.R.E."

  Keli Walsh
  St. Luke School (Beck)
  "Standing Up for Chicago "

Performances

• Deen Rosenberg, Rachael Brown
  Ogden Elementary (Calderon)
  "Jewish Labor Committee and their Efforts to Save European Jews from Nazism"
• Lydia Landor
  Decatur Classical School (Allegretti)
  

  "The Little Giant and Long Abe"

Exhibits

• Ishmael Smith
  Earhart Elementary (Stewart)
  "Brown v Board of Education"
• Peter Contos
  Polymath Academy
  "Faces of Aunt Jemima"
• Vi Nguyen, Robin David, Rebecca Litsitza
  East Prairie School (Bates)
  "Hidden Heroines: Soldiers Stand in Secret"

• Ammar Ikanovic, Konrad Sniezek, John Sherman
  East Prairie School (Bates)
  "Black Hawk Down: Taking a Stand to Live on his Tribal Land "

Senior Division (grades 9-12)

Papers

• Katherine Kinnaird
  Regina Dominican High School (Small)
  "Taking a Stand Against Racism: Reverend Christopher Moore and the Chicago Children's Choir"
• Rahul Gorawara
  Stevenson High School (Salituro)
  

  "Gautreaux vs Chicago Housing Authority"

Documentaries

• Josh Baker
  Lincoln Park High School (Rasar)
  "Taking a Stand by Taking the Stand"
• Shantel Jarmon
  Morgan Park High School (Mulhooly)
  "Reflections in a Black Mirror"
• Agne Mazur, Callie McCune, Mona Ghadiri
  Stevenson High School ( Bradford )
  "Carrying the Burden: The Story of Clyde Kennard"
• Chris Ciszynski, Brian Lis, Adrien Mitzocowicz, Jonathan Taub
  Lincoln Park High School (Johnson)
  "Maxwell St. Market: Taking a Stand for Preservation"

Performances

• Aracelli Gonzales, Aracelli Gonzales, Eliseo Martinez, Sarah Peara, Felipe Rodriguez
  East Aurora High Schoo (Bednar)
  "Refugio Martinez: Taking a Stand in the Packinghouses"
• Anthony Williams
  Brooks College Prep High School (Robbins)
  "Guilty Until Proven Innocent"

Exhibits

• Gian Santos
  Oak Forest High School (independent scholar)
  "Justice Through Science"
• Elise Croteau-Chonka, Sandra Peters, Zachary Stenberg
  Lincoln Park High School (Ahmad)
  "Red Summer of 1919: Taking a Stand Against Segregation"
• Ivan Favelevic , Montana Young
  Lincoln Park High School (Ahmad)
  "Blacks in the White City : Taking a Stand at the Fair"