JACKSON – Several area students won first- or second-place at the Mississippi History Day State Contest on April 10 to qualify for the National History Day Contest.
For the contest, which is a cross-curriculum program focusing on in-depth research and critical analysis, students displayed projects on the theme of revolution, reaction and reform in history.
The students will join nearly 3,000 competitors from the United States, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Department of Defense schools in the Atlantic, China, and Korea for the national competition set for June 14-18 at the University of Maryland. Third-place winners will act as alternates for qualifiers unable to attend.
Local students placed in the following categories:
Senior Individual Exhibit
From Starkville High School, Keylee Lang earned second place for “Striking the Match: The Matchgirl Strike of 1888,” which was also named Best Project in Women and Gender History.
Junior Individual Website
From Armstrong Middle School, Aiden Rhee earned first place for “The Railroad: An Influential Asset During the Civil War,” which was also named Best Project in Military History.
Senior Group Website
From SHS, Shriyansh Dash and Kai Saikia earned first place for “Aiming for the Heart, Hitting the Stomach: How Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ Raked Away a Century of Muck,” which also tied for Best Project in Humanities History.
Also from SHS, Brendan Seo and Joseph Thompson earned second for “Revolutionizing the Delta: The Story of the Greenwood Food Blockade.” The same project also earned the Best Project in Black History award.
Junior Group Website
From Partnership Middle School, Sian Lee and Peter Mun earned first place for “Alan Turing, a Genius That Arrived Too Early.”
Senior Individual Documentary
From Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Walter Giesen earned first place for “Woodrow Wilson and the Reinvention of American Foreign Policy,” which also earned the Best Project in Archival History Award.
From SHSl, Ian Jung placed second for “Battle of Blair Mountain: A Revolution in the Coal Mines,” which was also awarded Best Project in Oral History.
Senior Group Documentary
From SHS, Ojash Bhushan, Peter Buys, Divya Sai and Saindhavi Shankar earned first place for “Revolution, Reaction, Reform: Louis Pasteur and Germ Theory.”
From MSMS, Jaida Denz and Jordyn Taylor earned second place for “When War Came Home to the Mind: Vietnam Veterans and the Fight to Acknowledge PTSD.”
Senior Paper
From MSMS, Catherine Shao earned first place for “A Revolution Behind-the-Scenes: Manufacturing Outsourcing, Deregulation, and the Pathway to US-Led Economic Globalization in the Crisis-Ridden 1970s,” which also tied for Best Project in Humanities History.
Also from MSMS, Daniel Hu placed second for “The Flames of Los Angeles,” which also earned The Major Calvin Wu Best Project in Asian History award, and Heer Patel, another MSMS student, placed third for “The Truth Behind the Partition.”
Best Project in Medical History Award
From MSMS, Angelina Tan was awarded for “Manufacturing Doubt: The AMA, the Tobacco Industry, and the Politics of Public Health.”
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