ILLINOIS HISTORY DAY 2020 – SUPERIOR PROJECTS
JUNIOR DIVISION GROUP EXHIBITS Pancakes Anyone? Breaking Barriers and Bellies: Aaron Williams, Vallierie Williams Independent Scholars The untold story of Nancy Green Albrecht Lipinski, Martin Schwartz, 16-Inch Softball: Breaking Barriers in Chicago Ray Elementary School Tristan Moore Sports Arnav Patel, Harshil Joshi, Archit Florence Kelley: Breaking Barriers for Women and Mead Jr. High School Tamhane Children's Labor Laws Through Social Activism Breaking Through the Silence: Chicago Women Lincoln Elementary Berra Adli, Alexis Crouch, Grace Lee Achieving the Right to Vote School
Bhargavi Limbachiya, Kenya Segura Women's Suffrage: A fight for Liberty Volta Elementary School
Ogden International Cecilia Whitted, Sonia Czekajewski Dantrell Davis: Breaking Barries in Cabrini Middle School Lane Tech Academic Colin Dewitt, Patrick Kennedy The 1933 “Century of Progress”: A Fair Outshined Center Engine 21: African-American Heroes Burning Lane Tech Academic Emily Cheng, Alaina Valmassei Barriers Center Faridah Faizul, Areeba Khan, Women's Rights Hayt School Iishaleakia Marshal, Janelly Mendez Thorp Scholastic Gabriella Buonauro, Ethan Salvador Rainbow Beach Segregation Battle Academy Isabella Meagher, Madeline Ogden International Diane Nash: Riding for Change McCammon Middle School Kaya Sajous-Brady, Thalia Frangias, Targeting an Untapped Market: A New Lincoln Elementary Ava O'Hara Foundation to the Cosmetics Industry School Leisly Bahena, Karol Pineda, Sofia Murphy Elementary Stop! Don't Frisk! Ruiz School Lilian Lopez, Yareli Lopez, Juliana Edwards Elementary TOGO: Breaking Barriers with a Camera Resendiz, Litzy Reyes School
Logan McCarthy, Prithiv Sudhakar The Rails That Broke Barriers Mead Jr. High School
Malyaka Siddiqui, Aida March of Neo Nazi in 1978 Hayt School Mahmutovic, Kristy Khuc Marilyn Gans, Niko Rigatos, Tytus Insulin, the Savior of Millions Meliora Rinker, Thor Walton Nedas Jonutas, Jasper Fortune, Filip Red Tails: Tuskegee Airmen Lakeview Junior High Nemrava Renee Tan, Maggie Reese, Amy Whitney Young Academic Urban Renewal's Racist Roots Wong, Elina Liu, Sarah Lee Center How Perseverance Can Change the World: Jackie Tommy Clark, Easton Bogard St. Giles Robinson's Boundary-Breaking Life Yashas Mattur, Anthony Noce, The Oxnard Strike of 1903: Breaking Barriers of Mead Jr. High School Ankit Rath Racial Representation in the Labor Force
Zoha Ali, Amna Khan Bruised Little Arms Decatur Classical School
ILLINOIS HISTORY DAY 2020 – SUPERIOR PROJECTS
JUNIOR DIVISION INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS Kenwood Academic Aimee Rodriguez The Jane Collective Center Our Future, His Present: Nikola Teslas Impact on Modern Alexandra Milovanovic Skinner West Electricity and Technology
Alice He Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin: The Duo That Defeated Polio Independent Scholar
Allison Bonin Women's Suffrage St. Mary School
Thorp Scholastic Alyssa Romack AAGPBL: Breaking Barriers For Women In Baseball Academy Rehabilitation or Retribution: Has the Juvenile Court Strayed Mayer Elementary Anabel Seiler From Its Original Purpose? School Edison Park Elementary Andrew Meresh A Covert Game of Intelligence and Intrigue School Immanuel Lutheran Anna Pappas Florence Nightingale: Lifesaver School McPherson Elementary Anthony Maxinez Rudy Lozano: The Voice of a Community School
Braelyn Hall The Power of Black Advertising Morgan Park Academy
Edison Regional Gifted Camille Kejo Glowing in the Dark Center Kenwood Academic Charlotte Middleton Harold Washington Center Lincoln Elementary Christian Goodall The Great Chicago Leak of 1992 School
Colin Madden IWW and the American Labor Movement Taft Academic Center
Immanuel Lutheran Courtney Thomsen The NAWSA and the Women's Suffrage Movement School Alcott Elementary David Bolotin Barbed Wire: The Fence that Shaped the West School Brooks Academic Deven Frierson Service Not Servitude Center East-West: How Two Families Escaped Oppression In A Elliot Martin Catherine Cook School Homemade Hot Air Balloon For Action is Indeed the Sole Medium of Expression for Ethics: Eloise Guth Skinner West The Hull House Steps to Better Life for Chicagoans
Emma Dominik Loyola: Game of Change Taft Academic Center
Decatur Classical Faryn Aaberg Ellen's Life of Lives School Pritzker Elementary Finn Maloney Faster than Sound School Pritzker Elementary Isabela Ide Women In Baseball: Hitting It Out Of The Park School Volta Elementary Iyanna Tuyay Discrimination Against Diversity: The Fight for Asians School Immanuel Lutheran John Walther Jackie Robinson #42: Breaking the Barrier School ILLINOIS HISTORY DAY 2020 – SUPERIOR PROJECTS
JUNIOR DIVISION INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS
Joseph Dourdourekas JFK Civil Rights Lakeview Junior High
Julia Corbisiero Joanne Alter: Breaking Gender Barriers in Chicago Politics Skinner North
Coonley Elementary Julia Lerner Rot and Mayhem School
Julia Van Wyck Claudette Colvin: Saving Civil Rights St. Cletus
Kelsey Frazier The Second City's Impact Morgan Park Academy
Kyler Kitson Choctaw Code Talkers: Coding the Way for Native Americans Catherine Cook School
Lena Tran Two Wrongs Do Make A Wright Taft Academic Center
Keller Regional Gifted Liam Beck Chicago Board of Trade: Selling the Future Since 1865 Center Lane Tech Academic Mia Urizar The Chicago Defender: The World’s Greatest Weekly Center
Michael Amberg Workers Unite! Morgan Park Academy
Galistel Language Natalia Noriega 1918 Influenza Pandemic Academy Science and Arts Nikhil Lele Katharine Wright's Influence Academy
Nisha McGahey Jennifer Jones and he Rockettes St. Cletus
The Flames of Reform: Barriers Broken by the Triangle Orla Byrley Skinner North Shirtwaist Fireacy
Paxton Hengesbach Napoleon in Egypt: A Quest for a New Empire St. Giles
Immanuel Lutheran Rebekah Pappas Frederick Douglass: Chain Breaker School Divine Providence Rosaria Ricchio Beyond the Dance: Katherine Dunham School Decatur Classical Serena Huang Minds Behind the Launch School The Skokie Uprising: Breaking Barriers Against Jewish Shaina Berman Skinner North Prejudice Coonley Elementary Sophie Gettelman Raising Chicago, One Building at a Time School Ogden International Stephanie Perez Can't We All Just Get Along? Middle School
Tabitha Kelliher What Love is All About St. Cletus
Brooks Academic Trinity Jones Defending the Migration Center
Vincent Auteri All Men Are Created Equal St. Luke Parish