IPS Students Qualify for National History Day in Indiana State Contest

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March 15, 2016

 

Chase Cooper is one of the 67 IPS students who has qualified for the National History Day in Indiana State Competition on May 6 in Indianapolis. Chase’s exhibit is called “The Pentagon Papers.”   

Nearly 200 students from five IPS schools
participated in the IPS District Contest on Wednesday, March 15, presenting
their projects at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 W.
Ohio St. IPS schools represented were Arsenal
Technical High School, Carl Wilde School 79, Center for Inquiry
School 2, Edison
School for the Arts School 47 and Shortridge
International Baccalaureate High School.

The winners, who will compete in the NHDI
State Contest on May 6, 2017, at Ivy Tech Community College in downtown Indianapolis,
are:

Individual Documentary: Senior

•  “Ruth First: A Freedom
  Fighter” — Mary Jo Easley, Shortridge
• “Gentrification” — Ajani Johnson, Shortridge
• “The Richmond Bread Riots”
  — Asli Mwaafrika, Shortridge

 Individual Exhibit: Senior

•  “Mau Mau Rebellion” — Glen Mwangi, Arsenal Tech
• “Teddy Roosevelt &
  Conservation” — Rosetta Estelle, Arsenal Tech
• “Emil Zatopek” — Neby
  Gebreslassia, Shortridge
• “Robert Emmett Fletcher
  vs. The Nation” — Antonio Cardenas, Shortridge
• “Margaret Sanger” —
  Claire Wallace, Shortridge
• “The Founder William” —
  Jemarcus Garrison, Shortridge
• “Witold Pilecki” — Alex
  Ogden, Shortridge
• “The Pentagon Papers” —
  Chase Cooper, Shortridge
• “Eugene V. Debs” — Zoe
  Bardon, Shortridge
• “Work Will Set You Free” —
  Hannah Penrod, Shortridge
• “Thich Quang Duc
  Self-Immolation” — Dayanara Carvajal, Shortridge
• “Little Rock 9: Elizabeth
  Eckford” — Olivia Richardson, Shortridge
• “John Carey: Vietnam
  Speech” — David Reyes, Shortridge
• “The May 4th Movement of 1919”
  — Yue Yu, Shortridge
• “Loving vs. Virginia” — Lindsey Snow, Arsenal Tech
• “Dietrich Bonhoeffer” —
  Victor Kitchel, Shortridge
• “Chief Joseph vs.
  Colonization” – Citali Amezcua, Shortridge
• “Nelson Mandela” — Sarahi Martinez, Arsenal Tech
• “The Korean Flag” –
  Brittney Pike, Shortridge
• “A House Divided: The
  Scopes Trial” — Eli Schmitt, Shortridge
• “Galileo and Censorship
  by the Church” — Alex Gordon, Shortridge
• “The First Woman to Run
  the Boston Marathon” — Alexandra Davis, Shortridge
• “The Newsboys Strike of
  1899” — Armando Castaneda, Shortridge

 Group Exhibit: Senior

• “The Black Panthers Movement” — Generen
  Lynch and Antonio Flannigan, Shortridge
• “A Martyr
  for the Truth”— Zyionna Wells and Rayna Bowles, Arsenal Tech
• “Nat Turner’s
  Rebellion” — Chris Bautista and Noah Misgina, Arsenal Tech
• “All in the Bigotry” — Olivia Cropper
  and Chloe Valdez, Shortridge
• “Russian
  Revolution”— Makenzie Ritchie and Trent Stocum, Arsenal Tech
• “The
  Mexican-American War” — Sandra Sanchez and Daisy Palacios, Arsenal Tech

 Individual Performance: Senior

 Group Performance: Senior

Individual Website: Senior

•  “Juliette Gordon Low” — Mia May,
  Shortridge
• “Aung San Seu Kyi” — Sergio Castillo,
  Shortridge
• “The Union Literary Institute” — Elijah
  Webster, Shortridge

 Group Website: Senior

•  “War on
  Poverty” — Daniel Covarrubias and Eliezer Hernandez, Arsenal Tech
• “Prophet Muhammad: Taking a Stand” —
  Ranya Abedelmalik and Alfiya Babiker, Shortridge

 Senior Paper

•  “The Munster Rebellion” — Francis Van
  Schaik, Shortridge
• “Henry Ford” — Dylan Stucker, Shortridge
• “The
  Creation and Legacy of Israel” — Thomas Jean, Arsenal Tech
• “Farabundo
  Marti” — Linsey Rodas-Hernandez, Shortridge
• “William
  Wilberforce: And His Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade” — Elijah
  Abrego, Shortridge
• “Prudence
  Crandall” — Marquia Webster, Shortridge
• “Standing
  Up to Old Traditions: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss” — Walker
  Perkins, Shortridge

 Individual Exhibit: Junior

•  “Looking at
  Native Americans Defense of their Land as an Environmental Movement” — El’Ad
  Nichols-Kaufman, CFI 2
• “Anne Frank” — Diana Vicens, Edison
  School of the Arts
• “The Rough Riders” — Adolfo Dominguez
  Hermenejildo, Carle Wilde

 Group Exhibit: Junior

• “Emmett
  Till” — Jeffery Anderson and Corbin Banks, Edison School of the Arts
• “Rosa Parks
  & the Montgomery Bus Boycott” – Jaylyn Gee and Auriana Shabazz,
  Edison School of the Arts
• “Kenny
  Washington” – Devion Ellis and Johnny Murff, Edison School of the Arts

  Individual Website: Junior

•  “Cardinal Ritter Takes a Stand” —
  Elizabeth Redmond, CFI 2

Each year, more than 5,400 students
create NHDI projects and compete at regional contests across the state.
Students work on their projects throughout the school year, creating
documentaries, exhibits, papers, performances and websites related to an annual
theme. This year’s theme is “Taking a Stand in History.”

The top winners in the state contest in
the junior and senior divisions are eligible to compete in The Kenneth E.
Behring National History Day Contest in College Park, Md., in June.

For more information about NHDI, visit www.indianahistory.org/historyday.