MARYLAND HISTORY DAY PROJECT ENTRIES
JUNIOR PAPERS
A Political Triumph or a Cruel Tragedy? Julius Pikesville Middle School, Baltimore County Caesar's Rise and Downfall William Su Loving vs. Virginia Triumph and Tragedy Teacher: Cody Bard Jenna Bell Western Heights Middle School, Washington County Teacher: Randi Merritt Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County Alice Hamilton: A Progressivist’s Triumph Over Lead in the Workplace The 1968 Democratic Primaries and Their Ada Frederick Triumphant Reforms Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Caleb Oh Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore Teacher: Melissa Rudow City Crofton Middle School, Anne Arundel County
Behind Enemy Lines, the 30-Minute Miracle: The The 2008 Financial Crisis: Will Our Nation Ever Be Great Raid on Camp Cabanatuan the Same? Jayden Nickerson David Klein Teacher: Joyce Smith Teacher: Jason Laraia Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's Pikesville Middle School, Baltimore County County The Battle of Antietam: Lincoln's Opportunity and Bronza Parks: The Magnificent Life and Tragic The Emancipation Proclamation Murder Lauryn Bishoff Makenzie Eakins Teacher: Mike SanJulian Teacher: Thomas Hayman Southern Middle School, Garrett County Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County The Enigmatic Alan Turing: The Triumph, The Guernica- The Bombing and the Painting Tragedy, and the Legacy Vivian Maneval William Grant Teacher: Andrew Dangel Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Old Mill Middle North School, Anne Arundel County Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore City Heroes Shadow Warriors, the Shadow Operations Forces and Counter Terrorism Units of the World The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Catastrophe With A Steven Gonzalez Legacy Teacher: Amber Nievod Ariella Malfaro Sykesville Middle School, Carroll County Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Northern Middle School, Garrett County Lessons of the Defenseless: The Story of Thalidomide The Rise and Fall of American Passenger Railroads Tegan Hakim Kevin Hawk Teacher: Robyn Pultorak Teacher: Carolyn VanRoden Southampton Middle School, Harford County Ana Jensen Teacher: Stephanie MacKenzie The Tragedy of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Stevensville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Lasya Musty Teacher: Judy Zangrilli Triumph Tragedy Of The Japanese Feudal System Hallie Wells Middle School, Montgomery County Richard Potts Teacher: Joyce Smith The Treaty of Versailles and Its Impacts on the Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's Modern World County Kyle Page Teacher: Carli Martus Triumphs and Tragedies of the Six-Day War Northern Middle School, Calvert County David Miller Teacher: Devin Page The Triumph of Feminism and How It Changed the Northern Middle School, Calvert County Social Structure in the World Thomas Brooks Unethical Trials and Negligent Manufacturing in the Teacher: Amber Nievod Polio Experiments: A Necessary Evil Sykesville Middle School, Carroll County Anna Mueller Teacher: Felicia O'Meara The U.S. Figure Skating Plane Crash Bonnie Branch Middle School, Howard County Isabella Garland Teacher: Linda Echternach Von Braun: Nazi or American? Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County Taylor Bryan Teacher: Leigh Face The World War One Hello Girls Springfield Middle School, Washington County Sofia Douglass Teacher: Reagan DePola Wounded Knee Massacre Ellicott Mills Middle School, Howard County Aaliyah Davis Teacher: Kristen Barrett Tragedy and Triumph in the Bubonic Plague the Milton M. Somers Middle School, Charles County Great Fire of London
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS
Alexander Was Not The Only Hamilton Veronica Mehl Sydney Ripke Teacher: Jackie Hall Teacher: Carolyn VanRoden Mill Creek Middle School, Calvert County Southampton Middle School, Harford County Heroes of the Mexican Revolutionary war An Architectural Triumph in the Face of Tragedy Said Calderon Samuel Burchill Teacher: Laura Weldon Teacher: Thomas Crise Mace's Lane Middle School, Dorchester County Stevensville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Hiding in the Shadows: Anne Frank Apollo 13: The Successful Failure Lexis Miller Claire Higgins Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Teacher: Melissa Rudow Northern Middle School, Garrett County Crofton Middle School, Anne Arundel County Ironclads of the Civil War Bata Shoes-Triumph and Tragedy in History Liam Scully Giacomo Rossi Teacher: Katherine Bartman Teacher: Katherine Bartman Middletown Middle School, Frederick County Middletown Middle School, Frederick County Italian Immigration to America Bay of Pigs Matthew Saccone Justin Hurney Teacher: Janis Chilcoat Teacher: Sean Wilson St. John Westminster Catholic School, Carroll County Snow Hill Middle School, Worcester County Lost and Found - Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Benedict Arnold: The Most Egotistical Player in the Office American Revolution Erin Downey Tanner George Teacher: Jacob Lougheed Teacher: Jereme George E. Russell Hicks Middle School, Washington County Father Andrew White School, St. Mary's County Nikola Tesla: Great and Failed Inventions Dancing with Death: The Dancing Plague of Alex Couture Strasbourg, France Teacher: Curtis George Avery Selivan Matapeake Middle School, Queen Anne's County Teacher: Drista Bowser Northwest Middle School, Carroll County Oyster Wars Donovan Brookins D-Day Teacher: Jodie Virago Kaydence Russell Sudbrook Middle School, Baltimore County Teacher: Jason Scheib Kent County Middle School, Kent County Rising From the Ashes: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Flight 93: Let's Roll Anna Chalupa Tyler Lloyd Teacher: Pattie HolyIlenda Teacher: Christopher Hayes Elkridge Landing Middle School, Howard County St. Mary's Bryantown, Charles County Sophie Scholl and the White Rose General George S. Patton: Pyrrhic Victory Sheila Li Teacher: Tracy Spillman Leah Mckenzie Lime Kiln Middle School, Howard County Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Northern Middle School, Garrett County The Battle of Gettysburg Julie Christopher Their Crime: Marriage Teacher: Linda Echternach Jordan Lewis Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore The Berlin Wall: The Birth And The Life Behind The City Wall Shabad Singh Transcontinental Railroad Teacher: Gloria Cuthbertson Josephine Kilby Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's Teacher: Jason Scheib County Kent County Middle School, Kent County
The Cultural Revolution of China Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Mckinley Jovanovic Sasha Jeudy Teacher: Justin Earley Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore City The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 Lindsey Dillon Triumph and Tragedy of King Tut’s Treasure Teacher: Devin Page Vanja Dordevic Northern Middle School, Calvert County Teacher: Arun Puracken Accokeek Academy, Prince George's County The Triumph and Tragedy of My Ancestor Paul Revere Triumph or Tragedy? A Triumphant Calamity, The Mary Winram Great Fire of London, 1666 Teacher: Katherine Bartman Chloe Terver Middletown Middle School, Frederick County Teacher: Jacob Lougheed E. Russell Hicks Middle School, Washington County The Triumph and Tragedy of the Doolittle Raid Daniel Gross Triumphs and Tragedies of Amelia Earhart Teacher: Nicholas DiCarolis Ting Shan General Smallwood Middle School, Charles County Teacher: James Dempsey Roberto Clemente Middle School, Montgomery The Wonder Drug: The History of Penicillin County
JUNIOR GROUP EXHIBITS
ABUSE of ORCAS at SeaWorld Natalie Voorhees, Lacey Wilde Jeannette Rankin: Our First Congresswoman Teacher: Kimberly Dougherty Elizabeth Collins, Rachel Mohammed Southern Middle School, Anne Arundel County Teacher: Melissa Rudow Crofton Middle School, Anne Arundel County Alice Paul and the 19th Amendment Baylin Fidler, Ella Palmer Loving V. Virginia Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Ella Marsalis, Asiane Phillips Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore Teacher: Amy Kosmer City Hampstead Hill Academy, Baltimore City
Apollo 13 - A Successful Failure Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Ally Matthew Boyle, Natalie Rodriguez McKenna Cady, Skylie Savage Teacher: Janine Sharbaugh Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Bonnie Branch Middle School, Howard County Northern Middle School, Garrett County
Burnt Spoons: The Damage Caused by Opioid Polio Perscriptions Irene Gonzalez Santizo, Coral Hall, Lilly Welch Katherine Gray, Marisa James-Le Teacher: Linda Echternach Teacher: Justin Earley Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County Red Tails The Tuskegee Airmen Creation of Israel Garrett Hook, Gavin Hook Keeley Catrino, Madilynn Diehl Teacher: Adam Muffley Teacher: Leah Olsen Plum Point Middle School, Calvert County Stephen Decatur Middle School, Worcester County Rosemary Kennedy End Times of Tea Times Zoe Fretterd, Kadence Quarles Sebastian Hurley, Hunter Rose, Jeffrey Springer, Teacher: Linda Echternach Stephen LeCompte Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County Teacher: Melanie Holliday South Dorchester School, Dorchester County San Francisco Earthquake and Fires Zoe Mudd, Madelyn Wilson Failure Is Not An Option - The Triumph and Teacher: Victoria Davenport Tragedies of Apollo 13 John Hanson Middle School, Charles County Kathryn Cottingham, Christina Zhang Teacher: Carol Carter The Attack That Brought America to Her Knees Kenmoor Middle School, Prince George's County Jarrett Aleshire, Natalie Sterling Teacher: Sean Wilson Family, Religion, Sales: How Christmas Became A Snow Hill Middle School, Worcester County Federal Holiday Kamali Burns, Saamiya Burns The Battle of Thermopylae Teacher: Gloria Cuthbertson Michael Fronheiser, Kylin Taylor, Peter Towle Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's Teacher: Stacey Gruber County West Middle School, Carroll County
Four Planes, One Major Tragedy, Was There a The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Triumph? Darby Bittle, Serena Johnson Navidad Grace Bradley, Emily Pupillo, Kaci Willey Teacher: Jesse Smith Teacher: Melanie Holliday Smithsburg Middle School, Washington County South Dorchester School, Dorchester County The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Spanish Flu: Stacking Coffins Cooper Nevins, Jayden Robinson, Lincoln Kennedy, Emily Keppler, Bethany Nicholson Leo Mangum Teacher: Thomas Hayman Teacher: Andrew Anders Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County The Stonewall Riots: A Triumph and Tragedy The Cold War: A Triumph for Some, A Tragedy for Jacqueline Boese, Carrington Hilliard, Reaghan Olmo Others Teacher: Danielle Whalen Famara Drammeh, Ihshan Kazim Western Heights Middle School, Washington County Teacher: Erin Hughes Benjamin Stoddert Middle School, Charles County The Voices of the Salem Witch Trials Sylvie Duthoy, Anne Sophie Leach The First Battle of Bull Run Teacher: Scott Strait Martin Parrish, Ryan Myers, Jackson Walters Monocacy Middle School, Frederick County Teacher: Jason Scheib Kent County Middle School, Kent County Triumph Tragedy of the Titanic Timmy Burger, Jackson Steinbrenner The Horrors of Blackwell's Island Teacher: Maggie Mayberry Zari Archer, Anna Ims, Ashleigh Lourcey East Middle School, Carroll County Teacher: Adam Muffley Plum Point Middle School, Calvert County Triumph and Tragedy of Alexander The Great Aseel Awad, Kiel James, Riley Parsons, Brandon The Power of the People: How the Citizens of Tellez-Garcia Germany Reunited their Country Teacher: Randi Merritt Lada Borovikov, Riley Middleton Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County Teacher: Elizabeth Berkeley Burleigh Manor Middle School, Howard County Valley Forge: The Fight For Survival Amelia Chang, Chloe Choi, Jasmine Li, Isabel Mao, The Smallpox Vaccine: Eradicating A Killer Emma Zou Kimberly Rodeheaver, Cesilie Tasker Teacher: James Dempsey Teacher: Mike SanJulian Roberto Clemente Middle School, Montgomery Southern Middle School, Garrett County County
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARIES
Black Wall Street: Triumphant and Tragic Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Lauren Pearl Teacher: Ayesha Claytor-Stanislas Stalingrad Matthew Henson Middle School, Charles County Jake Berman Teacher: Janis Chilcoat Death, Disease Discrimination: The Building of the St. John Westminster Catholic School, Carroll County Panama Canal Katherine Giroux Stanford White: The Triumph and Tragedy of an Teacher: Matthew Hetrick American Architect The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore City Maddie George Teacher: Thomas Hayman Emmett Till: The Tragedy That Sparked The Civil Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Rights Movement Lena Osborne The Bombing of Dresden Teacher: Doug Jones Remy Grimes Dunloggin Middle School, Howard County Teacher: Robert Lusby Windy Hill Middle School, Calvert County Independence The India-Pakistan Partition: A Split That Still Needs A Stitch The Clinton 12 Advika Agarwal Samantha Jayne Teacher: James Dempsey Teacher: Jason Scheib Roberto Clemente Middle School, Montgomery Kent County Middle School, Kent County County The Creation of the Atomic Bomb: Scientific J. Edgar Hoover, a Burglary and 'Freedom Won' Triumph or Human Tragedy? Anusha Pandey Georgia Clancy Teacher: Kathleen Quinn Teacher: Cody Bard Mayfield Woods Middle School, Howard County Western Heights Middle School, Washington County
Len Bias: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Basketball The Evolution of Gaming Sensation Shelemiah Griffiths-Johnson Sophia Williams Teacher: Gloria Cuthbertson Teacher: Danielle Whalen Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's Western Heights Middle School, Washington County County
Reparations, the Rentenmark, and a Regime The Great Video Game Crash of 1983 Peter Cure Zachary Ketterman Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Teacher: Leah Olsen Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore Stephen Decatur Middle School, Worcester County City The Hello Girls Retinopathy of Prematurity- The Blindness Desiree Miranda Epidemic that Caused Thousands to Go Blind Teacher: Luchana Sumpter Zosha Tluszcz Franklin Middle School, Baltimore County Teacher: Heather Kehr West Frederick Middle School, Frederick County The Liberation of Concentration Camps Sumaiya Rahaman Ritchie Valens: A Life of Triumph and Tragedy Teacher: Stacey Gruber Savannah Buffum West Middle School, Carroll County Teacher: Andrew Anders The Sega Genisis Triumph and Tragedy of Ruby Bridges Scott Morrison Madison Thomas Teacher: Christopher Hayes Teacher: Randi Merritt St. Mary's Bryantown School, Charles County Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County
The Triumph and Tragedy of the California Gold Triumph Over Tragedy: Rwandan Reconciliation Rush Post Genocide Alexa Jimeno Levi Peterson Teacher: Jessica Butcher Teacher: Christine Pritt Severna Park Middle School, Anne Arundel County Frederick Homeschoolers, Frederick County
The Triumph and Tragedy of the War of 1812 Triumphs and Tragedies of the Holocaust Emerson Manser Aniya Scott Teacher: Kate Causarano Teacher: Arun Puracken Franklin Middle School, Baltimore County Accokeek Academy, Prince George's County
JUNIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARIES
Brown vs Board of Education Triumphs and Smithsburg Middle School, Washington County Tragedies Fernando Hernandez-Galvez, TaiJae Justice, Phoebe Japanese-American Internment Camp Spencer Jacob Lontoc, Connor Sullivan Teacher: Randi Merritt Teacher: Carolyn VanRoden Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County Southampton Middle School, Harford County
Building Bridges Not Walls: A Story of Reconcilation John Holter and His Life-Saving Valve Between Ethiopia and Eritrea Morris Williams, Xandr Zabel Leila Ferebee, Isaiah Ferebee, Jordan Ferebee Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Teacher: Karol Ferebee Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore Homeschool, Prince George's County City
Challenger Explosion: 73 Seconds Reforming the Nevertheless, She Persisted: The Tale of Women's Way Americans View Space Suffrage in Maryland Serena Goyal, Ellie Hasegawa Alvaro Ceron, Damilola Folorunso, Ayda Girma, Teacher: Tracy Spillman Precious Njoku Lime Kiln Middle School, Howard County Teacher: Irene Prescott Kenmoor Middle School, Prince George's County Chaos for Control - The Falklands War Jackson Baer, Cody Booth Polio the Polio Vaccine Teacher: Ginger Scally Allison Wallach, Erin Zirkle E. Russell Hicks Middle School, Washington County Teacher: Drista Bowser Mt. Airy Middle School, Carroll County China's Cultural Revolution Sarah Dinh, Tyrell Jones, Jaeci Paranilam, Gladis Salem Witch Trials Santos Jasmyn Hoover, Mariam Diab, Nadia Ahmed, Jumana Teacher: Danielle Bagonis Elkhatib, Farah Hiba, Maryam Silmi Morrell Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore Teacher: Mam-Marie Kah City Al Rahmah School, Baltimore County
Coal Mining in Eastern America The Allied Occupation of Japan [and?] Germany Seth Barron, Cole Swift, Jacob Yankalunas Carol Li, Daniel Li, Brayden Miller, Luke Mei Teacher: Sean Wilson Teacher: Justin Earley Snow Hill Middle School, Worcester County Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County
Equal Share Everywhere (socialism) The Battle of Stalingrad Gretchen Richardson, Madison Werner, Lydia Yates Aaron Birchfield, Dean Ford, Derek Rush Teacher: Melanie Holliday Teacher: Nicole Penix South Dorchester School, Dorchester County Plum Point Middle School, Calvert County
Fashion and Feminism The Battle of Stalingrad Lauren Gracie, Lia Klug, Caroline McGlone Alex Cui, Sunil Pateel, Jason Kang Teacher: James Dennsteadt Teacher: Tracy Spillman Central Middle School, Anne Arundel County Lime Kiln Middle School, Howard County
Florence Nightingale's, Riches to Rags from Tragedy The Defense of Maria Reynolds to Triumph Riley Forrestal, Daphne Min, Emma Nyland Isaac Davis, Jack Krumpe Teacher: Sarah Mason Teacher: Virginia Coleman Bennett Middle School, Wicomico County The Triumphs and Tragedies of Animals Who The Donner Party Served in World War One Lydia Miller, Kirsten Reams, Cristy Enlow, Anna Addison Hoiler, Aleya Tyson Robinson Teacher: Elizabeth Cool Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Matthew Henson Middle School, Charles County Northern Middle School, Garrett County The True Story of the Russian Revolution The Killer Fog Joy Kim Huynh, Amanda Knell Zoe Anyanwu, Julie Kim, Eileen Lane Teacher: Maggie Mayberry Teacher: James Dempsey East Middle School, Carroll County Roberto Clemente Middle School, Montgomery County Triumph or Tragedy? Conscientious Objectors Throughout History The McKinley Assassination Raiden Leonard, Brendan Birch Chloe Barnett, Julie Perriello Teacher: Sean Wilson Teacher: Christopher Hayes Snow Hill Middle School, Worcester County St. Mary's Bryantown School, Charles County Triumphs and Tragedies of NASA's Apollo Missions The Spirit of a Lion: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Reagan Ebaugh, Emma Molnar, Carissa Shue Andrew Jackson Teacher: Curtis George Canon Drummond, Caleb Evans Matapeake Middle School, Queen Anne's County Teacher: Adam Muffley Plum Point Middle School, Calvert County Triumphs and Tragedies of the Battle of Stalingrad Ethan Scott, Kenneth Stachowski, Daniel Wilson The Trail of Tears in 1831 to the Indian Civil Rights Teacher: Randi Merritt Acts of 1968 Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County Hannah Branham, Alison Taylor Teacher: Andrew Anders Women's Rights During WW2 Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Ashlyn Morris, Ansley Schumacher Teacher: Jessica Butcher Severna Park Middle School, Anne Arundel County
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
Architecture The 228 Incident Taylor Corley Katherine Pease Teacher: Gloria Cuthbertson Teacher: Justin Earley Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County County The Great Fire of London: Revolutionizing Structure Benedict Arnold: The Real Life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. and City Planning of London Hyde Sahaana Sriram Emily Stiles Teacher: Geordie Paulus Teacher: Ryan Abe Burleigh Manor Middle School, Howard County Springfield Middle School, Washington County The Legacy of Genghis Khan Christopher Reeves Triumph and Tragedy Cienna Szper Fiona Murray Teacher: Jesse Harrington Teacher: James Dennsteadt North Carroll Middle School, Carroll County Central Middle School, Montgomery County The Russian Revolution Fighting for Freedom with Writing: Phillis Trinity Jackson Wheatley's Tragic Life and Triumphant Legacy Teacher: Arun Puracken Sabrina Thaler Accokeek Academy, Prince George's County Teacher: Luchana Sumpter Franklin Middle School, Baltimore County The Sinking of Port Royal Kailey Drain Josephine Baker the Ebony Venus Teacher: Thomas Hayman Ryann Beckham Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Teacher: Matthew Hetrick Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore City The Story of The Comfort Women Irene Sohn Lost City of Pompeii Teacher: Judy Zangrilli Sophia Krasner Hallie Wells Middle School, Montgomery County Teacher: Leah Olsen Stephen Decatur Middle School, Worcester County The Sweet and Sticky-Free Story of the Japanese Tsunami and Earthquake of 2011 Loving v. Virginia: The Stepping Stone for Equality Aaron Sensenig in America Teacher: Darryl Calloway Addie Skillman Sudlersville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Teacher: William Pearl Elkridge Landing Middle School, Howard County Triumph and Tragedy - The Rise and Fall of Ruffian Samantha Cecil Mary, Queen of Scots Teacher: Lynn Schwalje Piper Wilt Central Middle School, Anne Arundel County Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Northern Middle School, Garrett County Triumph and Tragedy: Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton Eleanor Reeb Spill the Tea: The Boston Tea Party Teacher: Alexander Stoltz Anna Major Old Mill Middle North School, Anne Arundel County Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Northern Middle School, Garrett County Triumph and Tragedy: The Salem Witch Trials Kailyn McCauley Teacher: Amy Shilling Lara Grantz Clear Spring Middle School, Washington County Teacher: Michael Grouzard Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Vincent van Gogh - The Inspirational and Insane BaltimoreCity
JUNIOR GROUP PERFORMANCES
A Salem Tragic Ending Ludwig van Beethoven: A Musical Triumph and Elizabeth Bilbrough, Haylee Bohle, Rachel Mendoza Tragedy Through History Teacher: Jason Scheib Claire Inglesby, Cecelia Reichelt Kent County Middle School, Kent County Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore A-Bomb: Triumph by Tragedy City Miguel Davidson, Malik Savage, Adam Schutsky Teacher: Deneen Moore-McDonald Rosa Parks The Montgomery Bus Boycott Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School, Avery Eaton, Abigail Staton, Elizabeth Talbott Baltimore City Teacher: Curtis George Matapeake Middle School, Queen Anne's County Breakthrough of Women in Theatre Hilary Crouse, Haley Davis, Kate Greenhill Ruby Bridges Triumph through Tragedy Teacher: Marie Murphy Vanraj Barot, Bree Duffy, Allisyn Nutter, Loyal St. Augustine School, Howard County Schultz, Carli Turner Teacher: Randi Merritt Emmeline Pankhurst's Struggle with Suffrage Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County Haania Ahmed, Shifa Shaikh Teacher: Monica Chelidona The 79 AD Eruption of Mount Vesuvius Patuxent Valley Middle School, Howard County Esther Binigbolo, Janae Cameron, Alejandra Madrigal Glascon Fire of a Flying Ship Teacher: Carol Carter Breanne Ferguson, Kylie Raffensberger, Dylan Kenmoor Middle School, Prince George's County Wilkins Teacher: Leah Olsen The Banning of DDT Stephen Decatur Middle School, Worcester County Zaida Bowsher, Jacob Jones, Madeline Silbey, Peter Vicente Flight of Triumph with Amelia Earhart Teacher: Justin Earley Payton Mosier, Angel Scott Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County Teacher: Draper Ben Hancock Middle Senior High School, Washington The Empowerment of Women's Sports County Alison Embrey, Lilian Jackson Teacher: Amber Nievod History of 9/11 Sykesville Middle School, Carroll County Hannah Fields, Natalie Mathias Teacher: Stacey Gruber The Oregon Trail Shiloh Middle School, Carroll County Landon Bedo, Jayden Scott, Joseph Wojcik Teacher: Shelby Williams Legacy of Emmett Till Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County Troy Bennett, Gabriel Johnson, Malachi Miller Teacher: Jason Scheib The Titanic Kent County Middle School, Kent County Allie Harrer, Emily LaBille Teacher: Christopher Hayes Love Triumphs Over Hate: The Everlasting Battle of St. Mary's Bryantown, Charles County LGBTQ+ Marriage Rights Melissa Candella, Emmalyne Dumont, Anne Marie Triumphs and Tragedies of The 13th Amendment Thomas, Jillian Stringer, Casey Turner Alanna Francis, Olivia Noel Teacher: Andrew Anders Teacher: Gloria Cuthbertson Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's County Teacher: Mam-Marie Kah Twins of Auschwitz Al Rahmah School, Baltimore County Sophia Cajabo-Koczela, Amina Khan, Asmaa Khan, Rafia Zafar
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITES
"A Sign of Hope": The Century Long Story of the Sasha Barley Denali Name Change Teacher: Devin Page Maria Chen Northern Middle School, Calvert County Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore From Tragedy to Triumph: Dr. Lillehei and City Cardiopulmonary Bypass Kara Hartley 1966 Texas Western Men's Basketball Teacher: Jessica Butcher Championship Severna Park Middle School, Anne Arundel County Canton Wetzel Teacher: Heather Kehr How One Lie Sparked a Mass Hysteria: The Salem West Frederick Middle School, Frederick County Witch Trials Dylan Kilkenny Anatomy Act of 1832 Teacher: Jodie Virago Ryann Tompkins Sudbrook Middle School, Baltimore County Teacher: Michelle Coney Milton M. Somers Middle School, Charles County Raging Waters: The Flood of 1924 Samantha Mager Atomic Ardence Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Cheyenne Souvenir Northern Middle School, Garrett County Teacher: Lauren Kellaher Kenmoor Middle School, Prince George's County Satyagraha: Gandhi's Rough Road to Independence Faith Rothell Atomic Brilliance and Destruction Teacher: Benjamin Haman Marcus Schmidt General Smallwood Middle School, Charles County Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Northern Middle School, Garrett County Serbia's Impact on World War I Simon Vujinovic Bayonet! The Tragic Moment the 20th Maine Rose Teacher: Curtis George to Heroism Matapeake Middle School, Queen Anne's County Ryan Fleming Teacher: Amber Nievod The 1980 Olympic Boycott Sykesville Middle School, Carroll County Mallory Valmon Teacher: Justin Earley Cesar Chavez Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County Albert Chavez-Ramirez Teacher: Taylore Thompson The Annexation of Hawaii: A Triumph for American Colonel Richardson Middle School, Caroline County Expansionism, A Tragedy for Hawaiian Culture SaiGayathri Kurup Civil Rights Movement Teacher: Alexandra Fleming Malayah Phillips Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore Teacher: Shelby Williams City Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County The Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis Dylan Thompson Noah Honick Teacher: Sean Wilson Teacher: Sean Wilson Snow Hill Middle School, Worcester County Snow Hill Middle School, Worcester County The Impact of MLB Creating a Free Agency Frederick Douglass: The Path to Freedom Nicholas Dunford Teacher: Maggie Mayberry East Middle School, Carroll County The Tet Offensive: A Double-Edged Sword Vedant Patel The Night Witches Teacher: Doug Jones Angella Pham Dunloggin Middle School, Howard County Teacher: Stephanie MacKenzie Stevensville Middle School, Queen Anne's County Triumph and Tragedy In History: The Manhattan Project The Pentagon Papers: Telling Secrets that Saved Bryna Potter America Teacher: Ginger Scally Margaret Megosh E. Russell Hicks Middle School, Washington County Teacher: Justin Earley Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County Was The Civil War's Tragedies Worth The Triumph Brycen Coleman The Secret War: The Triumph and Tragedy of Laos Teacher: Melanie Holliday Rosie Hoover South Dorchester School, Dorchester County Teacher: Jessica Butcher Severna Park Middle School, Anne Arundel County When New York Was Irish Zora Heneghan The St. Louis: A Story of Great Tragedy Teacher: Irene Prescott Elizabeth Kriebel Kenmoor Middle School, Prince George's County Teacher: Jodie Virago Sudbrook Middle School, Baltimore County Wonder WACs: African-American WACs during WWII The Stanford Prison Experiment Camille Wimberly Jenita Shrestha Teacher: Amanda Brong Teacher: Julei Darrach Oakland Mills Middle School, Howard County Calvert Middle School, Calvert County
JUNIOR GROUP WEBSITES
"Started from the Bottom, Now We're Here" from the Holocaust to the Universal Declaration of Mikhail Gorbachev: Triumph and Tragedy Human Rights Drew Lobley, Ryan Kothari, Ryan Meredith Savannah Grooms, Amie Yansane Teacher: Melody Kight Teacher: Joyce Smith Northern Middle School, Washington County Benjamin Tasker Middle School, Prince George's County MK Ultra Rachael Funchess Blood Diamonds Teacher: Sarah Mason Jiahui She, Samantha Verney Bennett Middle School, Wicomico County Teacher: Rea Ann Mason Old Mill Middle South School, Anne Arundel County Oyster Wars Ty Beach, Kadan Knapp Challenger Disaster: Tragedy That Led Triumph in Teacher: Sarah Mason Aerospace Advancement Bennett Middle School, Wicomico County Heleeben Patel, Cooper Werner Teacher: Christine Watson Polio Victims to Inspirational Achievers Franklin Middle School, Baltimore County Jolie Lombardi, Ella Moody Teacher: Daniel Hoefert DuPont Family Piccowaxen Middle School, Charles County Brianna McMillin, Caroline Taylor Teacher: Thomas Hayman Rosie The Riveter: How The Flex of a Bicep Became Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County The Face of the Feminist Movement Thalia Harris, Aurelia Zeltzman Fire, Fire, Fire on the Flight Deck Teachers: Michael Lucas, Kat Locke Joshua Brobst, William Dolchan Hampstead Hill Academy, Baltimore City Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Northern Middle School, Garrett County San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: Change Born From Tragedy Jamestown Cannibalsm Joseph Mehall, Kyle Stone Jon Hernandez-Tovar, Cole Rholetter Teacher: Daniel Hoefert Teacher: Shelby Williams Piccowaxen Middle School, Charles County Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County School Shootings: Our Generation's Answer Jane Addams-Triumph and Tragedy of Women's Shrey Stallard, Elliot Stratton Suffrage Movement Teacher: Amber Nievod Makayla Freeman, Lizbeth Guerrero-Castro Sykesville Middle School, Carroll County Teacher: Randi Merritt Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County Secetariat Brooke Gauck, Morgan Rizer, Quincy Simmons Lewis Hine: Paving The Way To End Child Labor Teacher: Shelby Williams Samantha Blasey, Olivia Norris Lockerman Middle School, Caroline County Teacher: Adam Muffley Plum Point Middle School, Calvert County Slave Music Ella Joseph, Grace Ryan, Lucinda Slagle Mary Sloan Frick Garrett Jacobs Teacher: Heather Kehr Samuela Dongmo-Zebaz, Chandler Leineweber, West Frederick Middle School, Frederick County Gabriela Lorena Mejia, Madison Trice Teacher: Drista Bowser The 18th Amendment: An Unexpected Outcome Mt. Airy Middle School, Carroll County Paige Rattell, Elizabeth Shade Teacher: Thomas Hayman Centreville Middle School, Queen Anne's County The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its Failure to Prevent the Worldwide The Anthracite Coal Strike and Commission Proliferation of Nuclear Arms Ishani Biswas, Nitya Donthi, Emma Kim, Louisa Ryan Blake, Victor Scott, Declan Wilcoxon Sanford Teacher: Justin Earley Teacher: James Dempsey Eastern Middle School, Montgomery County Roberto W. Clemente Middle School, Montgomery County Treaty of Versailles: Triumph or Tragedy? August Hao, Saketh Sundar The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki: A Revolution and Teacher: Elizabeth Ceglia a Disaster Clarksville Middle School, Howard County Max Balakirsky, Justin Zhou Teacher: Geordie Paulus Triumph and Tragedy in the Continental Army: The Burleigh Manor Middle School, Howard County Winter at Valley Forge Abigail Gross, Gabrielle Stewart The Battle of Thermopylae: Tragedy for Greece Teacher: Irene Prescott Kellen Hinebaugh, Matthew Yoder Kenmoor Middle School, Prince George's County Teacher: Amanda Wilburn Northern Middle School, Garrett County Triumphs and Tragedy of Vincent Van Gogh Kayla Harmon, Marlene Moreno-Vigil, Brianna The Burning of Washington, D.C.- Dolley Madison Quillen Carlo Andanar, Madison Burkman, Summer Lohr Teacher: Randi Merritt Teacher: Carolyn VanRoden Somerset 6/7 Intermediate School, Somerset County Southampton Middle School, Harford County Vincent Van Gogh: The Pain In His Paintings The Delay of Science Throughout History Marisabelle Aponte, Dalyce Schmidt Siena Ainge, Tressa Brenneman, Eliana Matthews Teacher: Nicole Penix Teacher: Carolyn VanRoden Plum Point Middle School, Calvert County Southampton Middle School, Harford County Women's Rights to Vote The Legacy of the Stonewall Riots Kaya Oberdoerffer, Amelia Slagle Lily Gibney, Sara Kaplan Teacher: Heather Kehr Teacher: James Dennsteadt West Frederick Middle School, Frederick County Central Middle School, Anne Arundel County
SENIOR PAPERS
"Disaster on Pad 34": How the Tragedy of Apollo 1 Towson High School, Baltimore County Led to NASA's Triumph in the Race to the Moon Aurea Sellmeyer Sports Domination That Required Winning Battles Teacher: Sarah Stecher On and Off the Field to Change the World of Homeschool, Montgomery County Athletics Melody Coombs "The Despot's Heel": President Abraham Lincoln's Teacher: Leif Liberg Suspension of Habeas Corpus and the Continuing St. Mary's Ryken High School, St. Mary's County Consequences on Maryland Culture Charity Parrott Struck Out: The Political Implications of a Missed Teacher: April Parrott Opportunity Homeschool, Washington County Leo Kalb Bourke Teacher: Kathy Simmons A Savage Pioneer: Alice Allison Dunnigan Walter Johnson High School, Montgomery County Kayla Clarke Teacher: Judith Barrera The Battle of Antietam Randallstown High School, Baltimore County Cody Pfeiffer Teacher: Elaine McNeil An Exhaustless Fund of Compassion Queen Anne's County High School, Queen Anne's Courtney Houston County Teacher: Carmen Wright Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince The Bloody Brothers War: The Battle of Antietam George's County Logan Lankford Teacher: Stephen Smith Chiune Sugihara: The Triumph of His Life-Saving Washington High School, Somerset County Visas During the Tragedies of World War II Jessica Misiorek The Great Depression: From Eventual Decline to the Teacher: Amie Dryer New Deal | Improved Calvert High School, Calvert County Andre McCamey Teacher: Erich Heyssel Deinstitutionalization Oxon Hill High School, Prince George's County Joyce Li Teacher: Beth Strakonsky The Reagan-Gorbachev Summits Frederick High School, Frederick County Rebecca Williams Teacher: Mark Haring Henry K. Beecher: The Voice For Victims of Severna Park High School, Anne Arundel County Unethical Human Experimentation Anna Han The Siege of Leningrad Teacher: John McDonald Alena Sergueev Marriotts Ridge High School, Howard County Teacher: Beth Strakonsky Frederick High School, Frederick County Living an Immortal Life : Henrietta Lacks Dakhiya Kelly The Stonewall Riots: The Spark of a Revolution Teacher: Justine Novy Joshua Strohmayer Northern High School, Calvert County Teacher: Jan Edlowitz Reservoir High School, Howard County Putin: The Russian Federation’s Status as a World Power Under the Current President The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956: The Triumphs of Alec Faraday Egypt and Israel and the Tragedies of the British Teacher: Tom Geilfuss Empire Megan Zeiss Evie Shanholtz Teacher: Seth Wolak Teacher: Matthew Poling South River High School, Anne Arundel County South Hagerstown High School, Washington County
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Little Bighorn Zoroastrian Influence on the World's Major Conor Moran Monotheistic Religions Teacher: Ryan Folmer Sophie Leheny Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City Teacher: Matthew Hetrick The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore City Tragedy and Triumph: Chernobyl
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS
A Rip in the Iron Curtin: The Hungarian Revolt of The 1900 Galveston Hurricane: A Destructive 1956, Tragedy as Communism Triumphs Tragedy with an Impactful Triumph Emily Shatuck Anjali Vidyasagar Teacher: Amie Dryer Teacher: Anthone Bond Calvert High School, Calvert County Long Reach High School, Howard County
Building NYC: Triumph or Tragedy The Battle of Dunkirk Alexander Czeczulin Madilyn Leahy Teacher: Adam Laye Teacher: Jason Delucco Parkville High School, Baltimore County St. Mary's Ryken High School, St. Mary's County
Cleopatra VII: The Rise and Fall of a Modern The Battle of Saipan Woman in an Ancient World Greg Huyssoon Josie Hartings Teacher: Ryan Folmer Teacher: Christopher Baran Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City Boonsboro High School, Washington County The Death That Shaped The Civil Rights Movement Dorothea Dix: A Reformer's Triumph Over Mental Haley King Health Tragedy Teacher: Stephen Smith Gabriele Backus Washington High School, Somerset County Teacher: Amie Dryer Calvert High School, Calvert County The Invention of the Radio Amethyst Seigler Frances Glessner Lee: The Truth in a Nutshell Teacher: Scott Baker Natasha Sherlock North Dorchester High School, Dorchester County Teacher: Michael Yuscavage Arundel High School, Anne Arundel County The Romanovs Fiona Owens Loving v. Virginia Teacher: Thomas Geilfuss Marianna Anagnostou Towson High School, Baltimore County Teacher: Allison Ewing Bullis School, Montgomery County The Struggle to Save Jamestown Leilani McAdams Loving v. Virginia: Tragedy of Inequality, Triumph Teacher: Thomas Klug for Love and Marriage Oxon Hill High School, Prince George's County Kelli Lynch Teacher: Michael Hicks The Tragedy and Triumph of Eden-Allen, Maryland South River High School, Anne Arundel County Ceairra Davis Teacher: Stephen Smith Nicola Tesla Washington High School, Somerset County Mackenzie Walsh Teacher: Rebecca Bell The Victory and Vicissitude of D-Day Francis Scott Key High School, Carroll County Salem Senai Teacher: Carmen Wright Ottoman Mergenthaler: the Forgotten Father of the Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince Information Age George's County Andrew Foster Teacher: Philip Campbell The Winter at Valley Forge Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City Gregory Heiger Teacher: Leah Foran Howard High School, Howard County Charlotte Helmig Teacher: Allison Ewing Transcontinental Railroad Bullis School, Montgomery County Joseph Loy Teacher: Rebecca Bell Triumph and Tragedy: The Irish Famine Beyond Francis Scott Key High School, Carroll County Nicolette Glut Teacher: Leif Liberg Triumph and Tragedy Through the Americans with St. Mary's Ryken High School, St. Mary's County Disabilities Act
SENIOR GROUP EXHIBITS
"How we Survived" Auschwitz-Birkenau Morgan Sessa, Sofia Sirianni, Sara Vosburg David Ezeala, Daniel Olofi Teacher: Jennifer Grooms Teacher: Judith Barrera Notre Dame Preparatory School, Baltimore County Randallstown High School, Baltimore County Polio Purges the Population "My Conscience is Clear:" Bruce Ismay and the Nia Quinn, Morgan Riggleman Triumph that Ruined His Life Teacher: Anthony Berard Mica Kojic, Mary Larrivee, Curt McGovern, Trevor Chesapeake High School, Anne Arundel County Stepp Teacher: Christine Pritt Rafael Trujillo: Martyr or Monster Frederick Homeschoolers, Frederick County Ryan Addai, Jack Chalupa Teacher: Leah Foran Child Labor During the Industrial Revolution in Howard High School, Howard County America Ella Boyce, Sarah Rye Rosenbergs: The Tragedy of American Triumph in Teacher: Michael Powell Espionage Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore City Jenna Cockrell, Sophia Shenberger Teacher: Amie Dryer Everest 1953: The High Cost of Conquest Calvert High School, Calvert County Olivia Burdick, Elizabeth Phelps, Kenna Krueger, Rachel Tievy Stock Market Crash of 1929 Teacher: Stephanie Gomer Spencer Quizon, Bryce Johnson-Dendy Poolesville High School, Montgomery County Teacher: Jack Peach Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore County From Triumph to Tragedy: The Vanishing of Aaron Burr Striking Out To Hitting Home Runs: How The Anna Jenkins, Tina Provine AAGPBL Saved Baseball During World War II and Teacher: Anthony Berard Impacted Women’s Sports Chesapeake High School, Anne Arundel County Megan Droney, Katie Fuscaldo, Kristina Melegari Teacher: Shannon Radebaugh How One Discarded Engulfed a Whole City in Immaculate Conception School, Baltimore County Flames: The Great Baltimore Fire Kourtney Ciociola, Alana Flaherty The Black Plague Teacher: Shannon Radebaugh Jack Guerre, Lena Martinez Immaculate Conception School, Baltimore County Teacher: Jason Delucco St. Mary's Ryken High School, St. Mary's County It's Not Just a Date...Remembering 9/11 Vacha Patel, Kelly Rodriguez The Triumph of Brown v. Board of Education and Teacher: Carmen Wright the Tragedy of Calvert County, Maryland's Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince Implementation George's County Tyler Cassidy, Edward Williams Teacher: Rob James NASA: The Hidden Triumphs behind the NASA Huntingtown High School, Calvert County Women Sumayyah DeBruhl, Kennedy Penn, Genesis White Triumph Over Tragedy The Great Depression: Food Teacher: Thomas Klug Edition Oxon Hill High School, Prince George's County Mia Mennit, Jocelyn Meyers, Aaron Palamaras Teacher: Scott Baker Pearl Harbor North Dorchester High School, Dorchester County
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARIES
Escaping the Berlin Wall Rachel Carson and the Environmental Movement: Julia Chamberlin Tragedy of World War II that Led to the Triumph of Teacher: Stacey Billingsley Silent Spring South River High School, Anne Arundel County Angelique Gingras Teacher: Amie Dryer Historic Tragedies and Modern Triumphs: The Calvert High School, Calvert County National Park Service and Native Americans Jillian Vordick Strange Fruit Teacher: Kathy Simmons Caleb Robinson Walter Johnson High School, Montgomery County Teacher: Tim Hanson Bullis School, Montgomery County How Triumph Can Cause Tragedy: The SS Eastland Corinna Crenshaw The Battle of Okinawa: An American Triumph and Teacher: Heather Crenshaw Tragedy Homeschool, Caroline County Treyvoughn Johnson Teacher: Patrick Wilborn Indispensable: The U.S. Signal Corps Female Duval High School, Prince George's County Telephone Operators at War S. Abigail Giroux The Destroyer of Worlds Teacher: Matthew Hetrick Daniel Bates The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore City Teacher: Robin Bates Homeschool, Prince George's County Joan of Arc Ashley Alt The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Tragedy that Changed Teacher: Aaron Burch the Course of Environmental History Linganore High School, Frederick County Kiersten Jewell Teacher: Jan Edlowitz John R. Lewis- An American Hero Reservoir High School, Howard County Ason Hammond Teacher: Telisa Claiborne The Mask Maker Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City Josephine Hughes Teacher: Amie Dryer Life is a Desire: The Quiet Tragedy of the Little Calvert High School, Calvert County Tramp's Fame Cassandra Brey The Public Versus the Prosecuted: The Triumphant Teacher: John Hyland and Tragic Legislative Reforms of the Insanity Colonel Richardson High School, Caroline County Defense Emily Gorny Little Rock Nine: Triumph and Tragedy of Teacher: Mary Curtin Integration Howard High School, Howard County Allison Stup Teacher: Nate Smarick The Scopes Trial: The Gradual Triumph for Public Oakdale High School, Frederick County School Science Classrooms Francesca Ducker President John F. Kennedy's Role in the Civil Rights Teacher: Jessica Pantazis Movement Annapolis High School, Anne Arundel County Liam Edmondson Teacher: Frank Passaro The Triumph and Tragedy of Technology in World Calvert Hall School, Anne Arundel County War I Jordan Damewood Teacher: Frank Passaro Hannah Park Calvert Hall School, Howard County Teacher: Garrett Magaha James M. Bennett High School, Wicomico County The Triumph of American Retail, Followed By Its Tragic Demise: The Story of Montgomery Ward Salem, Its Gallows: A Town Built on Tragedy Anna Bergschneider Clara Curtis Teacher: Sam Spinder Teacher: Clay Matthews North Hagerstown High School, Washington County Westminster High School, Carroll County
Tragedy and Triumph of Helen Keller
SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARIES
"Black Gold" and Greed: The Tragedy of the Osage The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore City Sarah Abouassali, Jillian Black, Rana Gulen, Lexi Smith Last Dance at the Cocoanut Grove Teacher: Ty Crompton Aidan Goldenberg-Hart, Daniel Greigg, Joey Huang, Middletown High School, Frederick County Eli Protas, Charles Shi Teachers: Christopher Forney, Michael Arenas, Marc "Houston We've Had a Problem Here": A Triumph Grossman in the Midst of Failure Richard Montgomery High, Montgomery Blair High Nathan Maldonado Munoz, Gabrielle Vicmudo School, Winston Churchill High School, Montgomery Teacher: Amie Dryer County Calvert High School, Calvert County Nazi Art Looting: The Theft of a Culture ACT UP: Triumph from Tragedy Aiai Calmer, Samuel Rennich Allison Lord, Parker O'Neil Teacher: Sarah Tokar Teacher: Clay Matthews River Hill High School, Howard County Westminster High School, Carroll County Remembering Pearl Harbor Bloody Sunday: Selma's Story Makaila Alcarese, Emma Handley, Haya Jokhadar Jesusa Balde, Chibuzor Egwim, Sydney Foust Teacher: Marshall Edrington Teacher: Carmen Wright Notre Dame Preparatory School, Baltimore County Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince George's County Sinking Treasure: Islands of the Chesapeake Gavin Dennis, Samantha Glenn, James Hsia, Gabby Cause and Effects of the Rwandan Genocide Hunt Jasmine Kelly, Maame-Yaa Ofori-Darkwa Teacher: Nicholas Dudas Teacher: Carmen Wright Parkside High School, Wicomico County Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince George's County The Ashes of Change: The Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 Clifford Whittingham Beers: The Ideological Jack Cohen, Colin Gillespie, Hayden Stoll Progression of Mental Institutions Teacher: Ryan Folmer Amelia Jung, Aaron Meier Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City Teachers: Mark Kandra, Mike Haring Severna Park High School, Anne Arundel County The Atari Shock: A Necessary Reconstruction of the Video Game Industry Emmett Till: How Death Created Dawn Nicole Bachman, Ashlynn Braisted, Sydney Shin Brianna Simmons, Emma Weikert Teacher: Sarah Tokar Teacher: Jason Kamler River Hill High School, Howard County South Hagerstown High School, Washington County The Imprisonment of the Mind From Inefficient to Inspiring: How the Stonewall Maryam Abdiruhman, Hania Hasan, Khansa Syed, Riots Changed LGBT Activism Aisha Muhammad, Sammarulhuda Qasim Pallavi Battina, Amulya Puttaraju Teacher: Mam-Marie Kah Teacher: Stephanie Gomer Al Rahmah School, Baltimore City Poolesville High School, Montgomery County The Rise and Fall of The Mongol Empire How the War of Currents Electrified the Nation: The Dennis Killian Tragedy and Triumph of the Struggle for Power Teacher: Harry Suber Astri Doub, Jaimie Griffin, Elizabeth O'Brien Wicomico High School, Wicomico County Teacher: Matthew Hetrick The Thalidomide Tragedy: The Medical Disaster Triumphs and Tragedies of Black History that Led to a Triumph of FDA Regulation in the U.S. Disomi Okie, Sherreon Thomas Rayne Libby, Arleigh Peterson Teacher: Laura Butler Teacher: Christine Pritt Meade High School, Anne Arundel County Frederick Homeschoolers, Frederick County
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
"You Ain't Nothin' But A Hound Dog" Ashlynn Stearns Straight out of Controversy Teacher: Stephanie Gomer Kelly Ross Poolesville High School, Montgomery County Teacher: Glynnis Ross Homeschool, Prince George's County Blood Diamonds: A Girl's Best Friend Haja Bundu The Female King Teacher: Laura Butler Nyiel Graham Meade High School, Anne Arundel County Teacher: Adam Laye Parkville High School, Baltimore County Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphony That Brought a City Back to Life The Great Fire Of London Alessandra Calin MacAnthony Ike Teacher: Richard Malt, Jr Teacher: Omar Price Marriotts Ridge High School, Howard County Duval High School, Prince George's County
H.H. Holmes America's First Serial Killer The Triumph and Tragedy of a Unsinkable Ship Ashleigh Taylor Anabella Falcao Teacher: Allison Ewing Teacher: Amie Dryer Bullis School, Montgomery County Calvert High School, Calvert County
MP3: Can You Hear The Problem Triumph and Tragedy of the Arab Revolt Enzo Leone Kyle Schuster Teacher: Josh Vicchio Teacher: Susan Pennington Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City Wilde Lake High School, Howard County
Pearl Harbor Triumph and Tragedy:The Life of Abraham Lincoln Alison Cutler Carl Eckard Teacher: Carol Young Teacher: Mark Malone Glen Burnie High School, Anne Arundel County Fort Hill High School, Allegany County
SENIOR GROUP PERFORMANCES
“Somebody Had to Make a Start:" Teacher: Stephanie Gomer The White Rose and the German Resistance against Poolesville High School, Montgomery County the Nazis Shane Byrne, Katherine Harvey, Kelly McGovern The Kent State Shooting: Reviving a Movement Teacher: Christine Pritt Myles Feingold-Black, Samar Haddad, Sally Kaye Frederick Homeschoolers, Frederick County Teacher: Marc Grossman Montgomery Blair High School, Montgomery County 14 Juillet, 1789 Cora Bessette, Jay Collins, Seth Tyson The Trung Sisters' Tale Teacher: Jason Delucco Rheanna King, Maria Sophia Semilla, Aaliyah Stokes- St. Mary's Ryken High School, St. Mary's County Bethea, Shamya Turner, Ezinne Uzoho Teacher: Carmen Wright Caged But Not Defeated: The Triumphant Spirit of Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince the Angels of Bataan George's County Hannah Chan, Phoebe Chan, Joseph Heitzmann Teacher: Sarah Tokar Triumph at Land; Tragedy at Sea River Hill High School, Howard County Caroline Cucuzzella, Alayna Ptak Teacher: Shannon Radebaugh Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Master of Electricity Immaculate Conception School, Baltimore City Briti Mallik, Ashley Pacheco
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITES
A Minor Problem: The Fight Against the Harsh The Cost of Freedom: The Partition of India Conditions of Child Labor Harjas Aneja Curtis Cooper Teacher: Jennifer Coker Teacher: Ryan Folmer Reservoir High School, Howard County Mount Saint Joseph High School, Anne Arundel County The History of Rikers Azana Wilson D-Day: Triumph Amid Tragedy Teacher: Bridget Foley Andrew Mandahl Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore City Teacher: Adam Laye Parkville High School, Baltimore County The Navy WAVES: Being a Part of the Navy’s Women's Reserve Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington: How Leslie Robinson Their Investment in People Led from Tragedy to Teacher: Mike Kandra Triumph Severna Park High School, Anne Arundel County Matthew Palatnik Teacher: Stephanie Gomer The Partition of India and Packistan: A Geographic Poolesville High School, Montgomery County Divide, A Cultural Rupture Lumisa Bista Little Rock Nine: Triumph and Tragedy of Teacher: Beth Kromka Integration Williamsport High School, Washington County Sophie Tsanang Teacher: Omar Price The Siege of Petersburg: Triumph after Tragedy Duval High School, Prince George's County Olivia Borkowski-Johnson Teacher: Andrew Austing Loving v. Virginia Bel Air High School, Harford County Jolie Li Teacher: Patricia Smallwood The Triumph Tragedy of Smallpox Urbana High School, Frederick County Linda Benton Teacher: Rebecca Bell Loving v. Virginia: A Story of Triumph and Tragedy Francis Scott Key High School, Carroll County Kayla Ray Teacher: Judith Barrera The Triumph and Tragedy of Smallpox and Randallstown High School, Baltimore County Inoculaton Paris Rice Pokhran: The Origin of the Indian Nuclear Bomb Teacher: Spencer Shives Tanishq Ahuja Hancock Middle High School, Washington County Teacher: Richard Malt, Jr Marriotts Ridge High School, Howard County The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Tragedy Creating Triumph in United States Medical Ethics The Apollo Missions Charlotte Moss Celeste Milani Teacher: Carol Young Teacher: Amie Dryer Glen Burnie High School, Anne Arundel County Calvert High School, Calvert County Thich Quang Duc and His Impact on the Vietnam The Atomic Bomb Buddhist Crisis Emily Schildwachter Justin Hui Teacher: Rebecca Bell Teacher: Stephanie Gomer Francis Scott Key High School, Carroll County Poolesville High School, Montgomery County
Triumph and Tragedy in Eastern European Anti- Triumph and Tragedy: The Philippine-American War Communist Movements Kahli Lampley Aidan Carney Teacher: Erich Heyssel Teacher: Beth Strakonsky Oxon Hill High School, Prince George's County Frederick High School, Frederick County
SENIOR GROUP WEBSITES
Alexander Hamilton: “The Man is Non-Stop” William Brooks, Will Gunderson, Chris Phan, William Caitlin Lennon-Puthoff, Peyton McCoy Slade Teacher: Spencer Shives Teacher: Ryan Folmer Hancock Middle High School, Washington County Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City
Alexander the Great - Histogram The Idolization of J. Marion Sims Michael Kroeger, Sabrina Phillips Helena Narisu, Hina Nishida Teacher: Scott Baker Teacher: Stephanie Gomer North Dorchester High School, Dorchester County Poolesville High School, Montgomery County
Attack on Pearl Harbor The My Lai Massacre: A Tragedy Disguised as a Brodrick Butts, Austin Giggey, Kaden White Triumph Teacher: Amie Dryer Faith Comising, Sammy Richmond Calvert High School, Calvert County Teacher: Jan Edlowitz Reservoir High School, Howard County Diana, Princess of Wales, Gone Too Soon Jessi Trilli, Olivia Westman The Right to Love Teacher: Amie Dryer Mia Mesina, Bart Tolentino Calvert High School, Calvert County Teacher: Carmen Wright Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince Expression of Oppression: The Role of the Great George's County Migration in the Development of Harlem Renaissance Art The Second Punic War Hannah Kim, Imaan Shanavas Lucas Osborne, Oz McDonough Teacher: Stephanie Gomer Teacher: Adam Laye Poolesville High School, Montgomery County Parkville High School, Baltimore County
From Treacherous Warfare to an Oasis of Peace: The Sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic The Triumph Tragedy of the Dhofar Rebellion Sarah Chen, Sithara Griffin Christopher Pondoc, Jamie Roan Teacher: Danelle Brennan Teacher: Beth Strakonsky Howard High School, Howard County Frederick High School, Frederick County The Tragedy that Led to a Triumph; The Winter at Government Subservience: The Snowden Files Valley Forge Jeffrey Fisher, David Oduneye Alicia Dean, Tara Radebaugh Teacher: Adam Laye Teacher: Shannon Radebaugh Parkville High School, Baltimore County Immaculate Conception School, Baltimore County
Operation Dynamo: A Victorious Retreat The Virtue of Innocence: Megan's Law Patrick Marshall, Grant Miller, Thomas Wilk Savannah Brooks, Bunmi Omisore Teacher: Philip Campbell Teacher: Michael Yuscavage Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore City Arundel High School, Anne Arundel County
Tear Down This Wall! Triumphs and Tragedies Surrounding Human Organ Margaret Mothershed, Diya Patel Transplants Teacher: Beth Kromka Heather Cragg, Ethan Lac, Pooja Patel Williamsport High School, Washington County Teacher: Carmen Wright Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, Prince The Atomic Bomb: An Initial Triumph with George's County Simultaneous Tragedy Vincent van Gogh: Triumph After Tragedy Chandler Prettiman-Watkins, Lydia Sellers Teacher: Matthew Hetrick The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore City