After earning top honors at the Mississippi History Day on April 5, several local students are heading to the National History Day contest in Maryland this summer.
More than 330 students completed a project for the statewide competition. Of those, 22 students won a first or second place title to qualify for the national contest. Third-place winners serve as alternates for qualifiers to the national contest held in June at the University of Maryland.
The National History Day contest engages students each year to conduct research on historical topics of interest. Mississippi students will join nearly 3,000 competitors from across the globe.
In the senior group exhibit category, Phoebe Jones and Michael Taquino from Starkville HIgh School won first place with their project, “From Ancient Text to National Tongue: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s Impact on the Hebrew Language.”
Keylee Lang, also from SHS won first place in the senior individual exhibit with her project, “Different Mind, Same Opportunities: The Fight for IDEA.”
For senior group performance, Johnny Ford and Myrto Sergi took home first place for their project, “The Satanic Panic: How Religious Panic Compromised Inalienable Rights.” For senior individual performance, Israel Cecil from Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science won first place for his project, “Yin and Yang: The Colors of the South.”
SHS students swept the senior group website category, with Shriyansh Dash, Kai Saiki, and Kevin Zhang winning first for their project, “Red Tailed Angels.” Theo Ahn, Brendan Seo and Joseph Thompson won second with their project “Dilemma, Duty, Legacy: Alvin York’s Heroic Actions and Responsibilities.” Peter Buys, Cline Kemp and Donovan Shaffer won third place for their project “Rights and Responsibilities: Choctaw Code Talkers.
In the senior individual website category, Hong Zheng from MSMS won first place with “Excluded from the Land of Opportunity: The Chinese Exclusion Act.” Ian Jung from SHS took home third place in the same category with “Wong Kim Ark v. United States: A Court Case that Defined Citizenship.”
Top awards for the senior paper category all went to MSMS students. Naomi Simpson won first with her paper, “The Lavender Scare: The Origins and Development of the Eradication of Homosexuals from the U.S. Government During the Cold War.” Jasmaan Banipal took second with “How New York Times Co. v. Sullivan Shaped the Press.” Third place went to Ryan Wei fro the paper, “A Progressive Leap: How the Progressive Era Revolutionized Labor Laws.
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