June 22, 2021
WINNERS OF THE 2021 NATIONAL HISTORY DAY NATIONAL CONTEST
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Saturday, June 19, National History Day® (NHD) presented the awards for the 2021 NHD National Contest in a livestreamed ceremony. More than a half-million middle and high school students entered the competition in late 2020. Just over 2,600 of them successfully advanced through the local and state/affiliate rounds during another challenging school year disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic to earn their place in the NHD National Contest, which took place virtually for the second year in a row.
Through documentaries, exhibits, papers, performances, and websites, students presented research projects addressing topics related to the 2021 NHD theme, Communication in History: The Key to Understanding.
“National History Day students impress me year after year,” said NHD Executive Director Dr. Cathy Gorn, “and our second consecutive virtual national contest provided another challenge for this year’s students to meet and overcome. NHD students and teachers have once again shown they have the fortitude to address whatever they face. These experiences and memories will serve them well as they progress through their academic and professional careers, and I congratulate all of this year’s National History Day participants.” At the conclusion of Saturday’s awards ceremony, Dr. Gorn announced the 2022 National History Day theme, Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.
More than 400 historians and education professionals served as judges for the students’ work. As with all other aspects of the contest this year, the judging was conducted remotely online. More than 100 students from across the country will receive cash prizes between $500 and $2,000, each, for superior work in specific judging categories.
The full list of 2021 winners is provided below and online at nhd.org/virtual2021winners.
Numerous awards are granted to students, including the following: First-place entries in the Junior and Senior divisions’ five categories of documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, and website are given the title, “National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Scholar” and receive a $1,000 award sponsored by NEH. Second and third-place entries in all categories receive $500 and $250, respectively. Two entries from each NHD state/affiliate receive an “Outstanding Affiliate Entry” award sponsored by the National Park Service. First, second, and third-place entries in the Junior and Senior individual documentary categories also receive The Next Generation Angels Awards from The Better Angels Society. The first-place senior winner is given the Anne Harrington Award, named for the late longtime friend and colleague of filmmaker Ken Burns. Two dozen special awards are presented for topics ranging from African American History to World War II. Sponsored by organizations from around the country, they are presented to outstanding entries in any category and range in value from $250 to $10,000.
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Here are the winners of the 2021 National History Day National Contest:
Category Awards
Junior Paper First Place Title: Lithuanian Awakening: How a Book Ban Rebirthed a National Identity Student: Elise Williams School: Woodglen School, New Jersey
Second Place Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Key to Understanding the Inhumanity of Slavery through the Power of the Story Student: Omar Elbadawy School: Birchwood School of Hawken, Ohio
Third Place Title: Voices of Rebellion: Gilded Age Suffragists, 1870-1920 Student: Karma Bromwell School: Pecos Connections Academy, New Mexico
Junior Individual Documentary (Next Generation Angels Awards) First Place Title: Clearing the Air: How John Hersey Communicated Hiroshima Survivors’ Stories to the World and Changed the Global Perspective on Nuclear Weapons Student: Claire Flynn School: Sedgwick Middle School, Connecticut
Second Place Title: Norman Rockwell: Communicating Racial Inequality through Art Student: Madeline Rong School: Wheatley School, New York
Third Place Title: Hetch Hetchy: Constructing the Framework for Modern Environmentalism Student: Luke Morris School: Hendersonville Middle School, North Carolina
Junior Group Documentary First Place Title: Communicating through Cell Walls: The Secret Correspondence of American POWs in Vietnam Students: Caroline Bruton and Kayla Shaller School: William Monroe Middle School, Virginia
Second Place Title: Singing for Change: The Power of Music in the Civil Rights Movement Students: Caleb Deuel, Finley Bailey, Robinson Hoffert, and Wyatt Stapleton School: Edgewood Middle School, Indiana
Third Place Title: Humanity Before Diplomacy; The Documents That Saved Thousands: Carl Lutz’s Rescue Students: Amanda Yu, Erin Li, Kaiyan Ling, and Madison Johnson School: Rosa International Middle School, New Jersey
Junior Individual Performance First Place Title: The Rhythm of Resilience: Communication through the Bon Dance Student: Keilani Kajiyama Tinkham School: Laie Elementary School, Hawai'i
Second Place Title: A Climate Carol Student: Maya Faulstich School: Frank H Harrison Middle School, Maine
Third Place Title: The Miss America Pageant Protest of 1968: The Key to Women's Equality Student: Annabelle Ovel School: Franklin Middle School, Iowa
Junior Group Performance First Place Title: The Venona Project: Lies, Ties, and Soviet Spies Students: Alex Fleury, Ella Smith, Harry Davenport, and Lila Feather School: Hendersonville Middle School, North Carolina
Second Place Title: There's No Place Like Home: How Military Carrier Pigeons Provided a Vital Means of Communication during World War I Students: Ava Karis Renegar, Campbell Hodge, and Kerrigan Wankel School: Classical Scholars, North Carolina
Third Place Title: Communicating through Books: How the Pack Horse Librarians Brought the World to Appalachia Students: Kaelyn Miracle and Marli Hacker School: Page School Center, Kentucky
Junior Individual Exhibit First Place Title: The Book Women: Communicating Literacy and the Love for Books to Those Isolated by Poverty and the Appalachian Mountains Student: Georgia Edmonds School: The Gagie School, Michigan
Second Place Title: Lafayette Park: A Critical Platform for Communicating First Amendment Rights Student: Yuku Kusanagi School: Singapore American School, NHD South Asia
Third Place Title: Soong Mei-Ling: Creating Understanding through Passionate Speeches, Print Media, and Powerful Status Student: Nicole Yang School: Singapore American School, NHD South Asia
Junior Group Exhibit First Place Title: Alice Allison Dunnigan and the Pen of Equality Students: Inara Niaz and Selina Wang School: Springhouse Middle School, Pennsylvania
Second Place Title: Following Secret Codes to Freedom Students: Bailey Busch and Lucy Martinie School: Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Kansas
Third Place Title: Navajo Code Talkers: Their Story of Communication Students: Carter Robbins, Jacob Rubin, and Jemay Leow School: Deer Creek Middle School, Oklahoma
Junior Individual Website First Place Title: Ghost Army: Deceptive Communication and the Power of Illusion Student: Caleb Sinnwell School: Nashua-Plainfield School, Iowa
Second Place Title: The "Greatest Adventure in Advertising": How the Committee on Public Information Sold War to the American People and the World Student: Nico Allen School: Central Middle School, Minnesota
Third Place Title: Selling Space: The Significance of Propaganda during the Space Race Student: Grant Gillum School: Dripping Springs Middle School, Texas
Junior Group Website First Place Title: Hangul: Communication for the Common People Students: Erin Hwang and Nagyung (Anna) Cho School: Sierra Vista Middle School, California
Second Place Title: Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Masterpiece That Rewrote the Reconstruction Era Students: Sina Heineck and Sophia Payvar School: Riverstone International School, Idaho
Third Place Title: The Road to the Discovery of HIV: A Path of Dishonest Communication Students: Adriana Petrizzo and Alaina Pinto School: Wheatley School, New York
Senior Paper First Place Title: Kindling the Flame of Revolution: Communication and Committees of Correspondence in Colonial America Student: Michelle Miao School: Talawanda High School, Ohio
Second Place Title: Talking Leaves: The Cherokee Syllabary and the Trail of Tears Student: William Ling-Regan School: Poly Prep Country Day School, New York
Third Place Title: Shackling Sermons: How the Pseudo-Christian Communication of Proslavery Preachers Fueled the South’s Defense of Slavery Student: Abigail Rahn School: Warsaw Community High School, Indiana
Senior Individual Documentary (Next Generation Angels Awards) First Place (Anne Harrington Award) Title: Don’t Believe Your Eyes: How Falsified Visual Media Built the Cult of Stalin Student: Sasha Allen School: Eden Prairie High School, Minnesota
Second Place Title: The Korean Diaspora: Reunion of Separated Families through Media Communication Student: Ryan Seun Woo Kwon School: Yongsan International School of Seoul, NHD Korea
Third Place Title: Oklahoma! The Dawn of a Beautiful Morning for Storytelling in Musical Theatre Student: Melinda Chen School: West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, New Jersey
Senior Group Documentary First Place Title: Writing Race: Sam Lacy Chronicles the Crossing of the Color Line in Sports Journalism Students: Dominick Pizzelanti and Grayson Ebner School: Kutztown Area Senior High School, Pennsylvania
Second Place Title: “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”: The Media’s Misrepresentation of the Black Panther Party Students: Brent Pennington, Kara Tao, and Sandra Mordi School: University of Chicago Lab High School, Illinois
Third Place Title: The Cost of Words: How the Introduction of the Telegraph to America in the Late 19th Century Changed the Cultural Norms of Everyday Communication Students: Kiera Clarke and Nicole Rudenky School: High Tech Los Angeles Charter High School, California
Senior Individual Performance First Place Title: A Dictionary That Wouldn’t Die: The Fight of the Korean Language Society Student: Joanne Lee School: Seoul Foreign School, NHD Korea
Second Place Title: They Spilt Not Blood: Beware the Fine Print Student: Max Mateer School: Pensacola High School, Florida
Third Place Title: Knowledge is Power: The Key to Understanding Student: Jessica Cline School: George Washington High School, Iowa
Senior Group Performance First Place Title: Reagan’s Martin Luther King Day: Miscommunicating a Legacy Students: Helena Squires Mosher, Mae Wrigley, and Samuel Kellar-Long School: Open World Learning Community, Minnesota
Second Place Title: Morning Dew: Communicating South Korea’s Desire for Democracy Students: Eric Kim, Eric Moon, Lauren Cho, and Nikki Jiyul Shin School: Korea International School Pangyo, NHD Korea
Third Place Title: Operating on the Front Lines: The Hello Girls of World War I Students: Adelyn Phillips and Elsa Baumgartner School: Francis Parker School, California
Senior Individual Exhibit First Place Title: The 1900 Storm Student: Carter Holton School: New Caney High School, Texas
Second Place Title: The Knights of Labor: Spreading Ideas of Equality and Eight-hour Workdays Student: Bonnie Marriott School: West Valley High School, Alaska
Third Place Title: Blowing Smoke: Unmasking the Persuasive Communication Techniques of Cigarette Advertising in the 20th Century; a Key to Understanding the Emergence of Regulations Student: Zachary Brody School: Staples High School, Connecticut
Senior Group Exhibit First Place Title: Nothing Is Covered Up: Communicating the Horrors of the Holocaust Students: Alecia Gauna, Karly Neish, and Tessa Buck School: Moriarty High School, New Mexico
Second Place Title: McLibel: Censorship vs. Free Speech Students: Emily Xu and Pema Sherpa School: Fairview High School, Colorado
Third Place Title: The Truth of the 19th Amendment: Its Effect and What It Communicated to Women Students: Faustine Pierres, Ingrid Standifer, Natalie Dell'Immagine, and Sydney Chung School: Menlo-Atherton High School, California
Senior Individual Website First Place Title: Rural Free Delivery: Revolutionizing Postal Communication and Empowering Rural Americans Student: Anika Kapoor School: West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, New Jersey
Second Place Title: James Baldwin: A Witness to Racial Misunderstanding Student: Senou Kounouho School: BASIS Peoria, Arizona
Third Place Title: Starring Hazel Scott: Taking a Swing at Segregation Student: Anita Dinakar School: Johnston High School, Iowa
Senior Group Website First Place Title: Communicating the Voices of the Unheard: The Photography of Dorothea Lange Students: Amritha Sypereddi and Dessy Dusichka School: Lawrence High School, New Jersey
Second Place Title: Tuning In: How Radio Free Europe Communicated Through Cold War Propaganda Students: Keona Wallen, Sean Choudhry, and Zia Rice Bensch School: Accelerated Learning Laboratory, Arizona
Third Place Title: Communicating through Code: Elizebeth Friedman’s Crackdown on Nazi Spy Rings during World War II Students: KeQing Tan and Sneha Maskey School: Wilbur Cross High School, Connecticut
Special Prizes
African American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: Sending a Message: How Postcards Communicated Terror to a Race of Americans Student(s): Krin Blegen Category: Junior Individual Documentary School: Kettle Moraine Middle School, Wisconsin
African American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: The Birth of an Advocate: Beatrice Morrow Cannady Student(s): Alan Zhou Category: Senior Individual Documentary School: Sunset High School, Oregon
American Labor History Sponsored by: American Labor Studies Center Title: Rose Schneiderman: The Red-haired Labor Union Leader Student(s): Ananya Bezbaruah, Diya Modi, Ramya Suresh Category: Junior Group Website School: Timberline Middle School, Washington
Asian-American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: The Sting of the Wasp: Communication through Political Cartoons during the Chinese Exclusion Era Student(s): Emma Giordano, Jiaray Shi Category: Junior Group Documentary School: St. Peter's School, Pennsylvania
Asian American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: Anna May Wong: Advancing Asian-American Representation through Communication Student(s): Peilin Lu Category: Senior Individual Exhibit School: Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School, New York
Captain Ken Coskey Naval History Sponsored by: Naval Historical Foundation Title: Mavis Batey and the Geese That Never Cackled Student(s): Rebecca Bemiss Category: Junior Individual Performance School: John F. Kennedy Middle School, Connecticut
Captain Ken Coskey Naval History Sponsored by: Naval Historical Foundation Title: Aerographer's Mates: Communicating Weather from Sea to Shining Sea Student(s): Jessie Henderson Category: Senior Individual Documentary School: Bradley Central High School, Tennessee
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Prize Sponsored by: The National Endowment for the Humanities Title: Joseph Pulitzer: The Journalist Who Changed Communication through Newspapers Student(s): Phillip North Category: Junior Individual Performance School: St. Clair Junior High School, Missouri
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Prize Sponsored by: The National Endowment for the Humanities Title: Manipulation: The Key to Understanding Student(s): Alec Sirois, Marissa Sirois, Michaela Sirois Category: Senior Group Performance School: Heritage High School, Colorado
Corps of Discovery Sponsored by: Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Title: Communicating through Journals and Maps: The Expedition That Uncovered the West Student(s): Adeline Lyons Category: Junior Individual Performance School: Harding County Middle School, South Dakota
Corps of Discovery Sponsored by: Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Title: The Making of an Indian Princess: The Suffragettes, Sacajawea, and American Imperialism Student(s): Areeb Zahavi Category: Senior Individual Documentary School: Chamblee Charter High School, Georgia
Discovery or Exploration in History Sponsored by: The Library of Congress Title: Communication: Key to Apollo 11's Success Student(s): Sreeja Bhattacharjee Category: Junior Individual Exhibit School: Discovery Middle School, Indiana
Discovery or Exploration in History Sponsored by: The Library of Congress Title: Easing Disease: The Communication of Louis Pasteur’s Revolutionary Discoveries That Facilitated the Understanding of Germ Theory Student(s): Breanne Acoba, Brielle Acoba Category: Senior Group Website School: Mililani High School, Hawai'i
E Pluribus Unum in History Sponsored by: U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission and the America 250 Foundation Title: New York Times v. United States: Communicating First Amendment Rights of the People Student(s): Neal Vidyasagar, William Li Category: Junior Group Performance School: Singapore American School, NHD South Asia
E Pluribus Unum in History Sponsored by: U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission and the America 250 Foundation Title: Taking a Seat for Justice: The 504 Sit-In Student(s): Allen Tang, Andrew Wang, Andrew Yu, Rohin Garg, Thomas Huang Category: Senior Group Documentary School: Winston Churchill High, Maryland
Equality in History Sponsored by: Celie and Tabitha Niehaus Title: Stand Up, Fight Back: Larry Kramer, ACT UP, and a Philosophy of Anger In Activism Student(s): Caspian Pirtle Category: Junior Individual Performance School: The Catherine Cook School, Illinois
Equality in History Sponsored by: Celie and Tabitha Niehaus Title: Gloria Steinem and How Communication Shaped the Women’s Movement Student(s): Cordelia Vanderveer Category: Senior Individual Performance School: Toledo Technology Academy High School, Ohio
George Washington Leadership in History Sponsored by: Washington’s Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Title: Washington's Farewell Address Student(s): Elyse Heffner, Veronika Caughran Category: Junior Group Exhibit School: Traverse City East Middle School, Michigan
George Washington Leadership in History Sponsored by: Washington’s Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Title: The Long Island Link: How Communication from the Culper Ring Helped Win the War for Independence Student(s): Sarah Hinkel Category: Senior Individual Performance School: Donegal High School, Pennsylvania
History in the Federal Government Sponsored by: Society for History in the Federal Government Title: The Stories They Tell: Communicating the Daily Realities of Rural Americans during the Great Depression through FSA Photography Student(s): Ayumi Vazquez, Izumi Vazquez, Thao-Nhi Tran Category: Senior Group Exhibit School: Health Careers High School, Texas
History of Agricultural and Rural Life Sponsored by: Agricultural History Society Title: Children's Blizzard of 1888: The Advent of Communicating Meteorology Student(s): Rylie Arens, Sophia Wortmann Category: Junior Group Performance School: St. Rose of Lima School, Nebraska
History of the Physical Sciences & Technology Sponsored by: American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives Title: Claude Shannon: The Father of Digital Communication Student(s): Advith Natarajan Category: Junior Paper School: Susan B. Anthony Middle School, Kansas
History of the Physical Sciences & Technology Sponsored by: American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives Title: Grace Hopper: Computer Communicator Student(s): Tyler Kaus Category: Senior Individual Documentary School: Chadron Senior High School, Nebraska
Immigration History Sponsored by: Lombardo Family Title: The Literary Voice of the Filipino-Americans: How Carlos Bulosan Communicated the Plight, Identity and Dreams of the Filipinos of America Student(s): Patricia Estrada Category: Senior Paper School: Charles Wright Academy, Washington
Irish or Irish-American History (1st Place) Sponsored by: Ancient Order of Hibernians & the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Title: The Rambling House: How Irish Storytellers Communicated History to Preserve and Understand Culture Student(s): Callie McCall, Katherine Grady, Katy Sue Malt, Landon Pierron, Lillian Riddle Category: Senior Group Performance School: Great Expectations School, North Carolina
Irish or Irish-American History (2nd Place) Sponsored by: Ancient Order of Hibernians & the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Title: John Boyle O'Reilly: Virtuoso of Communicative Justice Student(s): Evan McCrackin, Justin Yang, Shoaib Jamil Category: Senior Group Website School: Norman High School, Oklahoma
Latino American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: The Chicano Civil Rights Movement Student(s): Mia Kesel Category: Junior Individual Website School: Alice King Community School, New Mexico
Latino American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: From the Early "Welga!" to the Great Boycott: The Farmworkers' Struggle against the Grapes of Wrath Student(s): Prithvi Nagarajan, Shrihari Nagarajan Category: Senior Group Website School: Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School, Missouri
Lee Allen History of Baseball Award Sponsored by: Society for American Baseball Research Title: Writing Race: Sam Lacy Chronicles the Crossing of the Color Line in Sports Journalism Student(s): Dominick Pizzelanti, Grayson Ebner Category: Senior Group Documentary School: Kutztown Area Senior High School, Pennsylvania
Native American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: Wounded Knee Student(s): Colton Mader, Rhett Flack Category: Junior Group Documentary School: Crawford High School, Nebraska
Native American History Sponsored by: The National Park Service Title: Zitkála-Šá: The Red Bird Who Called for Change Student(s): Faith Austin Category: Senior Individual Documentary School: Carmel High School, Indiana
U.S. Constitution Award Sponsored by: National Archives and Records Administration Title: Mother Knows Best: How a Mother’s Letter to Her Son Led to Women’s Suffrage Student(s): Melina Esqueda, Myah Moreno, Teresa Luna Ocampo Category: Junior Group Website School: Laird Elementary School, Arizona
U.S. Constitution Award Sponsored by: National Archives and Records Administration Title: Curbing Communication, Obstructing Opinion: The Sedition Act of 1798 Student(s): Alex Dimov, Nathan Hendrickson, Samarth Venkatesh Category: Senior Group Website School: Bothell High School, Washington
United States Marine Corps History Sponsored by: Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Title: Devil Dog Canines: A Line of Communication in World War II Student(s): Julienne Lim Category: Junior Individual Website School: Mary G. Porter Traditional School, Virginia
White House History Sponsored by: White House Historical Association Title: Lafayette Park: A Critical Platform for Communicating First Amendment Rights Student(s): Yuku Kusanagi Category: Junior Individual Exhibit School: Singapore American School, NHD South Asia
White House History Sponsored by: White House Historical Association Title: The Camp David Accords: How Jimmy Carter Negotiated Peace Between Two Warring Middle Eastern Countries Student(s): Marlon Coon, Young In Kim Category: Senior Group Documentary School: Wilbur Cross High School, Connecticut
Women’s History Sponsored by: National Women’s History Museum Title: "We Can [ALL] Do IT!" Communicating Women's Empowerment from World War II to Today Student(s): Ayla Bornsztein Category: Junior Individual Website School: Murray Middle School, Minnesota
World War II History Sponsored by: National World War II Museum Title: The Most Consequential Work of Journalism in History: How One Reporter Revealed to the World the Dangers and Tragedies of Atomic Warfare Student(s): Noah Grosberg Category: Junior Paper School: Westland Middle School, Maryland
World War II History Sponsored by: National World War II Museum Title: Subterfuge: How Juan Pujol García Used Communication to Shape the Victory at D-Day Student(s): Olivia Wessley Category: Senior Paper School: East High School, Kansas
Outstanding Affiliate Entry Winners
Alabama
Junior Individual Exhibit Colten Steele
Senior Individual Performance Starlyn Fistein
Alaska
Junior Group Website Tyler Smith, Tessa Polasek
Senior Individual Documentary Lucy Reese
American Samoa
Junior Individual Exhibit John Marcial Mirasol
Senior Group Exhibit Jade Kruse, Jewel Kruse
Arizona
Junior Paper Tahlia Mak
Senior Individual Website Logan Kraver
Arkansas
Junior Group Website Prerana Kodakandla, Sai Manvitha Voruganti
Senior Group Website William Romain, Zane Alsebai
California
Junior Group Website Audrey Manley, Kylie Rose
Senior Group Documentary Shawn Ashley, Shayna Ashley
Colorado
Junior Individual Website Annabelle Eisner
Senior Individual Website Finn Spangenberg
Connecticut
Junior Group Documentary June Lanpher, Maya Harpaz-Levy
Senior Individual Performance Jeffrey Pogue
Delaware
Junior Group Exhibit Elliot Jacob, Jacqueline Jerome
Senior Individual Website Arunia Sambandam
District of Columbia
Junior Individual Website Kayden Jensen
Senior Individual Documentary Luca Camponovo
Florida
Junior Group Performance Ellie Kim, Jocelyne Lioe, Anna Nguyen
Senior Group Exhibit Mandy Liu, Tallulah King
Georgia
Junior Individual Performance Jonathan Dorminy
Senior Individual Exhibit Bootsie Glasser
Hawai‘i
Junior Individual Documentary Raymi Watanabe
Senior Individual Documentary Summer Royal
Idaho
Junior Group Website Caleb Knox, Karley Allen
Senior Individual Exhibit Evan Monaghan
Illinois
Junior Individual Exhibit Fiona Jin
Senior Group Website Eleonore Vuillemin, Ishani Pidara, Grace Sawin
Indiana
Junior Group Documentary Ginny Neumeister, Hailey Neumeister
Senior Individual Documentary Ben Boyce
Iowa
Junior Individual Exhibit Katelyn Anderson
Senior Group Performance Amy De Groot, Caleb TeKrony, Casey Oolman, Jane Taylor
Kansas
Junior Group Performance Audrey Appuhn, Campbell Hight
Senior Group Documentary Emma Benefiel, Grace Rogers
Kentucky
Junior Group Performance Ava Blackledge, Caroline Carlisle, Mia Carver
Senior Paper Sarah Woosley
Louisiana
Junior Individual Website Camryn Bennett
Senior Group Documentary Cal Alexander, Eshika Tandon, Nhi Dao
Maine
Junior Group Documentary Brittany Carrier, Charlotte McGreevy, Jillian Muller
Senior Individual Website Uyen Nguyen
Maryland
Junior Group Documentary Ellis Merrill, Lillian Merrill
Senior Individual Documentary Adaline Ruff
Massachusetts
Junior Group Documentary Morgan Gibson, Sophie Hrad
Senior Group Documentary Brigitte Worstell, Gianna Randazzo, Maggie Firicano
Michigan
Junior Group Performance Lila Baliunas, Josephine Marsh, Hannah Hysell, Mary Riley
Senior Individual Performance Emma Wilson
Minnesota
Junior Individual Performance Aedea Winter
Senior Paper Natalie Miller
Mississippi
Senior Paper Aline LaPierre
Missouri
Junior Group Website Brock Pyle, David Bhend, John Jasper
Senior Group Performance Addie Harris, Elana Hadi, Katie Su
Montana
Junior Group Documentary Addison Drye, Britta Miller, Layla Brushia, Sophia Hutchison
Senior Individual Performance Jack Johnson
Nebraska
Junior Group Website Eva Jaixen, Olivia Fitzgerald
Senior Individual Documentary Thomas Kaus
Nevada
Junior Individual Website Kyle Perlich
Senior Paper Max Grinstein
New Hampshire
Junior Individual Performance Zoe Nagle
Senior Individual Website Chelsea Alysson Ongjoco
New Jersey
Junior Individual Performance Lizbeth He
Senior Individual Documentary Arya Shukla
New Mexico
Junior Individual Exhibit Shelby Mason
Senior Group Website Anson Beck, Avery Beck
New York
Junior Group Exhibit Hodaya Greenwald, Leah Fishman
Senior Group Documentary Catherine Kim, Emily Kim
NHD China
Junior Group Exhibit Yuxiang Chen, Ruhong Li
Senior Group Documentary Thomas Song, Yeseo Jeon, Ken Suzuk
NHD Korea
Junior Group Website Derrick Park, Matthew Huh
Senior Group Exhibit Yeonwoo Shim, Soobin Kim, Juri Shimada, Yejin Shin
NHD South Asia
Junior Group Exhibit Kylie Moon, Yoonseo Cho
Senior Individual Performance Karan Chakravarthy
North Carolina
Junior Individual Website Sam Kowalak
Senior Group Website Arya Revankar, Vina Senthil
North Dakota
Junior Individual Documentary Rainey Zettel
Senior Individual Documentary Anna Elsen
Ohio
Junior Group Documentary Anna Kunkel, Leslie Gimbert
Senior Individual Website Jaswanth Vandrasi
Oklahoma
Junior Paper Nicole Xiang
Senior Group Documentary Sarah Simons, Gage Williams, Vanesa Bedolla, Bradley Carr
Oregon
Junior Individual Documentary Eleanor Song
Senior Group Website Devin Von Arx, Lucia Zhang
Pennsylvania
Junior Group Website Dallin Laubert, Luka Pettine, Samith Rohatgi
Senior Paper Alice Padula
Rhode Island
Junior Individual Documentary Zachary Quintal
Senior Paper Kaden Rosa
South Carolina
Junior Group Website Angelina Nguyen, Brendon Ferreira, Kai Wilmot, Katelyn Dubson, Olivia Godfrey
Senior Paper Cam Srivastava
South Dakota
Junior Group Website Emory Brosnahan, Maya Sutton, Orah Wright
Senior Group Performance Ashley Richter, Capri Schroeder, Emily Heuer, Sidney Stricherz, Sophie Dalton
Tennessee
Junior Paper Abigail McKenna
Senior Group Website Naisha Chowdhury, Manal Shala
Texas
Junior Individual Performance Ka'Sean Francis
Senior Group Performance Lexie Caro, Isabella Phillips, Mackenzie Block, Anna Lail
Utah
Junior Individual Documentary Carly Andrews
Senior Individual Performance Jocelyn Millington
Vermont
Junior Group Exhibit Ayla Duggan, Payton Donahue
Senior Individual Exhibit Nadia Tarbell
Virginia
Junior Paper Samhita Som
Senior Group Documentary Caroline Berg, Georgia Berg
Washington
Junior Group Website Rishabh Oswal, Maxwell Shi, Noel Prince Muthuplakal
Senior Group Performance Noor Khalidi, Megumi Okamoto
West Virginia
Junior Individual Exhibit Suzi Raines
Senior Individual Performance Jaelyn Jett
Wisconsin
Junior Individual Performance Emma Manion
Senior Individual Performance Sandy Brierton
Wyoming
Junior Individual Documentary Eleni McKee
Senior Group Exhibit Paula Medina, Sahale Allen
About National History Day® (NHD) NHD is a nonprofit organization based in College Park, Maryland, that seeks to improve the teaching and learning of history. The National History Day Contest was established in 1974 and currently engages more than half a million students every year in conducting original research on historical topics of interest. Students present their research as a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, or website. Projects compete first at the local and affiliate levels, where the top entries are invited to the National Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park. NHD is sponsored in part by HISTORY®, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Park Service, Southwest Airlines, the Crown Family Foundation, The Better Angels Society, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, and the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation. Visit nhd.org for more information.
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