Connecticut History Day (CHD) 2016 Fairfield Regional Contest was held Saturday, March 19 at Sacred Heart University.
Connecticut History Day is an affiliate of National History Day® (NHD), a year-long academic program where middle and high school students conduct research on historical topics of interest. These research-based projects are entered into Regional Contests, where the top student projects have the opportunity to advance to the CHD State Contest. Student researchers, who compete at either the middle or high school level, may choose to enter into one of five CHD categories as an individual or within a group: performance, website, research paper, documentary or exhibit.
While students may base their project on a historical topic of their choosing, it must connect to the 2016 NHD theme of Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History. Through CHD, students in grades 6-12 are able to learn critical thinking, problem solving, research and presentation skills, while also developing a sense of responsibility for involvement in the democratic process.
Students who placed within the top three spots in each category will move on to the CHD State Contest taking place on April 30 at Central Connecticut State University.
Connecticut History Day is led by Connecticut’s Old State House in downtown Hartford, with support from the Connecticut League of History Organizations and Connecticut Humanities’ website, ConnecticutHistory.org. Major funding for CHD is provided by Connecticut Humanities. To learn more about Connecticut History Day visit historydayct.org, follow CHD on Facebook and Twitter. The National History Day® website may be viewed at nhd.org.
Below are the Connecticut History Day contest results:
Senior Division
Category: Group Website
First Place: Cracking the Genetic Code: The Story of DNA
Students: Allysa Noccioli, Rebecca McMahon, Meghan Reynolds
School: Stratford High School (Stratford, CT)
Second Place: Walt Disney & The American Dream
Students: Jackie Rhoads, Ella Jarvis, Zoe Lieberman
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Third Place: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Students: Hannah Roseme, Gabriela Vega
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Category: Individual Website
First Place: Working Dogs
Students: Rebecca Lee
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Second Place: Islamophobia
Students: Nicholas Bilotti
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Third Place: Militarization of an Unwanting People
Students: Sofia Gerrard
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Category: Group Documentary
First Place: The Sherpas: Cultural Exchange in the Shadow of Everest
Students: Brendan Moore, David Tamburri
School: Weston High School (Weston, CT)
Second Place: Panama Canal
Students: Patrick Moore, Thomas Anastos, Hari Nair
School: Wilton High School (Wilton, CT)
Third Place: Leprosy
Students: Sarah Carter, Nicole Arellano
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Category: Individual Documentary
First Place: R.E. Olds
Students: Christian Myers
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Second Place: Langston Hughes
Students: Peri Kessler
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Third Place: American Immigration Policy 1960s
Students: Matthew Gibson
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Category: Group Performance
First Place: Red Rubber: King Leopold’s Reign of Terror in the Congo Free State
Students: Quinn Barry, Shannon Madden, Claire Langdon, Maddie Langdon, Elena Fernald
School: Pequot Home School (Southport, CT)
Second Place: WASPs and the Flight for Equality
Students: Juliana Salamone, Katherine Hurst, Nicole Wood, Flora Dievenich Braes
School: Greenwich High School (Greenwich, CT)
Third Place: The World Anti-Slavery Conference: The Exchange That Happened . . . and the One That Didn’t
Students: Peter Bound, Paris-Sima Mohammadi, Maxine King, Suzanne Goodnow
School: Greenwich High School (Greenwich, CT)
Category: Individual Performance
First Place: Alexander the Great: The Relentless, Formidable and Influential Conquerer of the Ancient World
Students: James Gikas
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Category: Group Exhibit
First Place: Rosie The Riveter: Women in the Workforce
Students: Isabel Saltzman, Hana Previte, Lauren White, Claire Graham
School: Wilton High School (Wilton, CT)
Second Place: Street Art: The Battle Between Art and Vandalism in
NYC
Students: Monique Ostbye, Bianca Lotti, Sarah Sherts
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Third Place: FDR and the Jewish Refugees
Students: Julia Abbazia, Sofia Dodaro
School: Greenwich High School (Greenwich, CT)
Category: Individual Exhibit
First Place: Operation Ajax: 1953 Iranian Coup
Students: Julianna Beal
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Second Place: The Arrogance of Technology
Students: Ndidi Anekwe
School: Stratford High School (Stratford, CT)
Third Place: Undoing Slavery in Virginia
Students: Bridget French
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Category: Senior Paper
First Place: Gandhi and King
Students: Andrew Brito
School: Academy of Information Technology & Engineering (Stamford, CT)
Second Place: Hell on Wheels: The Staple of the Nation
Students: Jessica Ulbrich
School: Academy of Information Technology & Engineering (Stamford, CT)
Third Place: Encountering the Unprecedented Turning Point in American History
Students: Mia Krishnamurthy
School: Staples High School (Westport, CT)
Junior Division
Category: Group Website
First Place: Operation Paperclip: The Nazi War Criminals that Put a Man on the Moon
Students: Victor de la Pena, Sian Auer
School: Tomlinson Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Second Place: The Battle for Baltimore: The Final Encounter
Students: Nathan Holland, Drew Sutherland, Doug Muratori, Ryan Sokol
School: Region 15 Rochambeau Middle School (Southbury, CT)
Third Place: Exploration of the Moon: Apollo 13, Failure Yet Success
Students: Evelyn Kuo, Joelle Beck
School: Region 15 Rochambeau Middle School (Southbury, CT)
Category: Individual Website
First Place: Gandhi: Exploring Non-Violence
Students: Sneha Sunder
School: Unquowa School (Fairfield, CT)
Second Place: World War I Technology
Students: Logan Neishloss
School: Fairfield Woods Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Third Place: John D. Rockefeller – The Man Who Built America
Students: Kyle Young
School: Shelton Intermediate School (Shelton, CT)
Category: Group Documentary
First Place: Discovering The Land: A Life of Nathaniel Brown Palmer
Students: Julia Sexton, Sadie Kinnersley
School: Middlebrook School (Wilton, CT)
Second Place: The German American Bund Encounters Controversy With the American People
Students: Samantha Grayson, Shivaun Mathews
School: Region 15 Memorial Middle School (Middlebury, CT)
Third Place: Leaders of the Underground Railroad: Bridging Racial Gaps
Students: Sam Laskin, Marisa Shorrock, Gabe Sargent, Claudia Fernandez
School: Bedford Middle School (Westport, CT)
Category: Individual Documentary
First Place: Ironclads in the Civil War
Students: Matteo Andres
School: Fairfield Woods Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Second Place: The Cambodian Killing Fields
Students: Grace Milliman
School: Weston Middle School (Weston, CT)
Third Place: Miracle of the Holocaust: Exploration of Survival
Students: Rebecca Ronai
School: Weston Middle School (Weston, CT)
Category: Group Performance
First Place: Alexander Hamilton Explores a Financial System for the New Nation of America
Students: Juliana Rodrigues, Samantha Gilbert, Max Bueno, Emily Strickland, Joe Zarif
School: Region 15 Memorial Middle School (Middlebury, CT)
Second Place: Marie Curie
Students: Colleen Cooke, Rose Linkasamy, Rose Luczaj, Caroline Coccaro
School: Roger Ludlowe Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Third Place: The Evolution of Fantasy Sports
Students: Hunter Vogel, Noah Giglietti, Justin Krebs, Alex Jaber
School: Fairfield Woods Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Category: Group Exhibit
First Place: Margaret Fogarty Rudkin
Students: Hayden Mattus, Morgan Cutler, Devenny Widmer
School: Fairfield Woods Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Second Place: Billie Holiday and Strange Fruit
Students: Anna Wilder, Aleysha Henry, Ira Boci, Toni Lamparski
School: Fairfield Woods Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Third Place: Galileo: Exploring the Universe
Students: Sona Kocinsky, Supriya Ganti
School: Madison Middle School (Trumbull, CT)
Category: Individual Exhibit
First Place: The Pequot War
Students: Chris Belden
School: Shelton Intermediate School (Shelton, CT)
Second Place: General Burgogne
Students: Eric Young
School: Tomlinson Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Third Place: Without Stones There is No Arch: Marco Polo and the Bonding of Two Continents
Students: Nick Taubenheim
School: Bedford Middle School (Westport, CT)
Category: Junior Paper
First Place: The Manhattan Project
Students: Jasmine Conley
School: Roger Ludlowe Middle School (Fairfield, CT)
Second Place: Barbara McClintock: Jumping into the Future
Students: Haven Hunt
School: Academy at Little River Farm (Redding, CT)
Third Place: World War II: Woman Encounters of Opportunities
Students: Caroline Depalma
School: Rochambeau Middle School (Southbury, CT)