Dozens of Fayette County students have qualified for state competition in the 2017 National History Day in Kentucky program. This year’s theme is “Taking a Stand in History,” and the next contest is slated for April 22 at the University of Kentucky.
FCPS students competed in Regions 3, 4, and 5 over several Saturdays in March – presenting to the judges their exhibits, documentaries, websites, performances, and papers. The top one-third of projects in each category advance to state. Following are the FCPS qualifiers.
Junior Group Exhibit
- Bella-Claire Carter and Ellen Bohannon of Winburn Middle School; “The Race to Equality: Jesse Owens’s Stand Against Racism in the 1930s”
Junior Individual Exhibit
- Ashley Armstrong of Winburn, “Charlotte Gilman and Her Stand Against the Traditional Female Image”; Eleanor Badgett of Winburn, “From Plumbers to the President: Woodward and Bernstein’s Stand Against Political Corruption”; Dorottya Gal of Winburn, “A Picnic that Changed History: Cracking the Iron Curtain”; Emma Lauritzen of Winburn, “Evolving Ideas: John Scopes Standing Up for the Theory of Evolution in the Scopes Monkey Trial”; Elizabeth Moore of Winburn, “Tyranny and Treachery: Aaron Burr Takes a Stand for Honor”
Junior Group Website
- Sarah Ming, Judy Lee, and Lynn Ye of Winburn, “The Battle of Salamis: Taking a Stand for Unity in 480 B.C.E.”; Kate Messerli and Corinne King of Winburn, “Around the Campfire: John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt Taking a Stand in Yosemite”; Matthew Klee and Ava Chen of Winburn, “Gideon v. Wainwright: A Citizen’s Stand for Counsel”
Junior Individual Website
- Sneha Amrit of Winburn, “Alan Turing, Turning History”; Sadie Bograd of Winburn, “A Punch to the Gut: One Magazine’s Stand on Privacy Rights”; Lian Denmann of Winburn, “All Changed, Changed Utterly: The 1916 Easter Rising”; Maggie Ferguson of Winburn, “The Lone Dissenter: John Marshall Harlan’s Stands Against Racial Discrimination”; also, Blake James of Leestown Middle, “The Freedom Stand”; Asmita Karki of Leestown, “John Brown: Stand Against Slavery”; Danielle Lake of Leestown, “Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer”; Jack Ayoob of Leestown, “Nelson Mandela’s Fight Against Apartheid”; Jaylin Basinger of Leestown, “Bernie Sanders: The Start for Future to Believe In”; Aidan Christian West of Leestown, “Holloway Fields Jr. and his Lasting Impact not only on the University of Kentucky but the Nation”; Brit Buchanan of Leestown, “Eunice Kennedy Shriver”; Isabella Squire of Leestown, “Juliette Morgan: An Unlikely Activist”; Abigail Stevenson of Leestown, “The Stonewall Riots”; Grecia Lara Martinez of Leestown, “Girabaldi”; Henry Noll of Leestown, “Harvey Milk”
Junior Paper
- Evan Winkler of Morton Middle, “Taking a Stand for Equality: The Role of Radical Republicans in Reconstruction”; Juliann Hyatt of Winburn, “From Force-Fed to Free: Alice Paul’s Stance for the Nineteenth Amendment”; Ayush Kumar of Winburn, “The Massacre That Was: Tiananmen Square, 1989”; Abby Shadwick of Morton, “The Country Needed Men, and I Wanted Excitement”; Angela Sun of Winburn, “Florence Nightingale: How the Lady with the Lamp Took a Stand to Change the Face of Nursing”
Junior Individual Performance
- John Baniak of Winburn, “Extre, Extre: Newsies Take a Stand!”; Garrett Peavler of Winburn, “Constitutional Conflict: Hamilton’s Battle to Save the Nation”
Junior Individual Documentary
- Katherine Henson of Winburn, “Brave in the Attempt: The Story of Special Olympics”; Lily Gardner of Winburn, “Proletariat Politics: A Documentary”; Zoe Jenkins of Winburn, “The Greensboro Four: Taking a Seat against Segregation”; Sitara True of Winburn, “The Little Rock Nine: A Stand against School Segregation”
Senior Paper
- Austin Li of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, “The Sherman Anti-Trust Act: Taking a Stand against Monopolies”; David Ma of Dunbar, “A Rebel with a Cause: Korematsu vs. the United States”
Senior Group Website
- Reka Gal, Zsombor Gal, Rohith Kesaraju, and Akhil Kesaraju of Dunbar, “The Swedish Liberator: Raoul Wallenberg”
For more information, visit http://history.ky.gov/nhdky/.