We are pleased to announce the 2011 New York State History Day Contest award winners.
State Contest Winners
Junior Historic Paper
- First Place: The Debate Waged in Washington over Taiwan and its Consequences on U.S. - China Diplomacy by William Fried, Ramaz, New York
- Second Place: Despite Depate and Through Diplomacy Israel and Egypt Make Peace,
by Olivia Mittman, Ramaz, New York
- Third Place: The Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Brink of Nuclear War by Bill Dong, Farnsworth Ms, Guilderland
Junior Individual Web Sites
- First Place: The Parthenon Marbles by Charlotte Milbauer, Hunter College Campus Schools, New York
- Second Place: The Treaty of Versailles: A Failure in Negotiations by Lars Benson, Benson Homeschool, Bemus Point
- Third Place: From Yalta to the Cold War, Sarah Jones, Farnsworth Ms, Guilderland
Junior Group Web Sites
- First Place: Cuban Missile Crisis by Junhak Kim, Ethan Yabloko Felix V. Festa Ms, West Nyack
- Second Place: Sixty Minutes That Changed World Politics: The Kennedy-Nixon Debates by Brandon Havens, Robert Defelice, Matthew Barker, Warwick Valley Ms, Warwick
- Third Place: Erie Canal: Government vs. Private Financing by Akash Advaney, Daniel Esposito, Kanav Gupta Rahiq (Mohamed) Rafeeq
Junior Individual Documentary
- First Place: Strategic Nonviolent Action: A Gandhian Perspective by Nithya Kasi, Felix V. Festa Ms, West Nyack
- Second Place: Sacco and Vanzetti by Joseph Farber, Hunter College Campus Schools, New York
- Third Place: Candy Bomber by Sean Quinn, Farnsworth Ms, Guilderland
Junior Group Documentary
- First Place: Elvis the Debate of Rock and Roll by Shannon Gerety, Kerry Gerety, Hayley Kmack, Farnsworth Ms, Guilderland
- Second Place: Blood Versus Bureaucrats: A Conflict Between the New York City Public and the Government over the African Burial Ground by Dianna Torres, Katherine Valle, Alejandra Guevara, Daniell Yanik-Alvarez, Yonkers
- Third Place: The Nanional Edowment for the Arts Controversies of the late 1980's by Kristen Cordaro, Riya Shah, Felix V. Festa, West Nyack
Junior Individual Performance
- First Place: Diplomacy in the Women's Rights Movement by Taylor Ene, Genesis At Xaverian, Brooklyn
- Second Place: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Magna Carta for Mankind by Sarah Siegel, Cooperstown Ms, Cooperstown
- Third Place: Tinker v. Des Moines by Morgan Rielly, Manhasset, Manhasset
Junior Group Performance
- First Place: Haudenosaunee: Roots of Diplomacy by Renee Friedman, Max Ofer, Cooperstown Ms, Cooperstown
- Second Place: It Cannot Be Helped by Shadeh Din, Fatmah Ikram, Saffura Ahmad, Suad Abdalla, Cemile Antal, An Nur Islamic School, Schenectady
- Third Place: The Bank War: Presidential Power and Populism by Harrison Jamin, Mark Kindschuh, Andrew Zaloom, Genesis At Xaverian, Brooklyn
Junior Individual Exhibit
- First Place: Progress or Tragedy: The Demolition of Pennsylvania Station by Charlotte Elliott, Hunter College Campus, New York
- Second Place: Dropping the Atomic Bomb by Luke Cowden, Hauppauge Ms, Hauppauge
- Third Place: Fugitive Slave Act and the Trial of Anthony Burns by Shannon Sears, Cherry Valley-Springfield Jshs, Cherry Valley
Junior Group Exhibit
- First Place: Peace at Last by Daniel McLaren, Michael Tuffey, Genesis At Xaverian, Brooklyn
- Second Place: The Debate for Women's Suffrage: Let Us Vote by Montana Stone, Olivia Lukasiewicz, Siena Marcelle, Bethlehem Central Ms, Delmar
- Third Place: Mankind Versus the Speckled Monster: 200 Years of Debate on Smallpox Immunization by Neil Suri, Michael Karr Edgemont Jshs, Scarsdale
Senior Historical Paper
- First Place: On the Brink: Debate and Diplomacy by Michelle Kang, Guilderland Hs, Guilderland
- Second Place: Louder Than Words: The silent Sentinels and the Nineteenth Amendment by Talia Weisberg, Manhattan Hs. For Girls, New York
- Third Place: The Quest for Postwar Stability: American Diplomacy and the Atlantic Charter by Zubin Mukerjee, Guilderland Hs, Guilderland Center
Senior Individual Web Sites
- First Place: Saturday's Child: America's Child Labor Debate by Collin Richardson, Huntington Hs, Huntington
- Second Place:"Gentlemen, Be Seated"- The Minstrelsy Debate by Maddie Meyers, Ethical Culture The Fieldston School, Bronx
- Third Place: Mutual Defense Treaty Between the US and the Republic of Korea and its' Effect on the Stability of the Republic of Korea by Hyun-Young Kim, Liverpool Hs, Liverpool
Senior Group Web Sites
- First Place: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by Dhruv Ragunathan, Yeon Gyeong Lee, Rohan Patel, Arven Rulona, Alvin Mathew, Clarkstown South Shs, West Nyack
- Second Place: Sino-Tibetan Relations by Jonah Belser, Greg Nelson, Frank Poma, Hauppauge Hs, Hauppauge
- Third Place: Liberia: The Love Of Liberty Brought Us Here by Gregory Briker, Joshua Berg, Robert Duggan, Clarkstown North Shs, New City
Senior Individual Documentary
- First Place: Creating the Japanese Monster: A Case Study in Gunboat Diplomacy by Kunal Sangani, Fayetteville-Manlius Shs, Manlius
- Second Place: The Wall by Jason Brooks, George W. Hewlett Hs, Hewlett
- Third Place: Journey of a Social Movement: Debate and Diplomacy in Civil Rights by Cecilia Paasche, Ethical Culture The Fieldston School, Bronx
Senior Group Documentary
- First Place: Reagan and Gorbachev: A warm bond that melted a cold war by Shelby Hougui, Miskat Rahman, Saarthak Sarup, Clarkstown North Shs, New City
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- Second Place: Nuclear Power: Our Future...Or Our Demise by Elijah Baum, Hunter Rosenblume, Syosset Shs, Syosset
- Third Place:vAnarchist Emma Goldman: A Life Dedicated to a Controversial Cause by Shaleen Singha, Jasmine Ong, Townsend Harris High School, Flushing
Senior Individual Performance
- First Place: The Immigration Act of 1924: Shutting the Golden Door by Lily Shoretz, Ramaz, New York
- Second Place: Clashing in the Kitchen: Debating Capitalism v. Communism in the Cold War Era by Allison Schlissel, George W. Hewlett Hs, Hewlett
- Third Place: Debate and Diplomacy: The Failure of the German Resistance by David Hathcock, Red Hook Shs, Red Hook
Senior Group Performance
- First Place: No Vice, No Degradation: The 81 Words That Held Back A Movement & Fueled A Debate by Madison Deming, Irina Huang, Shivkrish Lingala, Jake Gogats, Elizabeth Kantor, Clarkstown North Shs, New City
- Second Place: Revolutionizing Human Rights & Diplomacy from Across the Sea: The Internation Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Jack Cahn, David Cahan, Stuyvesant Hs, New York
- Third Place: The New Deal: Bettering the Life of the Average Citizen by Olga Zubashko, Daniel Weiner, Clarkstown South Shs, West Nyack
Senior Individual Exhibit
- First Place: Brewing Conflict: The Debate and Diplomacy Over Coffee by Corrin Chow, Herricks Hs, New Hyde Park
- Second Place: The Civil Rights Act of 1960 by Westfield Hs, Westfield
- Third Place: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: The Flames that Fanned Reform by Rebecca Loring, Clarkstown South Shs, West Nyack
Senior Group Exhibit
- First Place: Robert Moses: For Better or For Worse? by Brielle Blatt, Samantha Palmer, Huntington Hs, Huntington
- Second Place: When Debate and Diplomacy Fail: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by Abigail Schnoor, Lixinbei Jing, Guilderland Hs, Guilderland Center
- Third Place: Depleting Kashmir: Debate and Diplomacy Over the Idus River System by Abhiraj Mathur, Meena Yoo, Hewon Park, Stacy Jacob, Daniel Cohanpour, Herricks Hs, New Hyde Park
American Labor Studies Award
Senior Individual Exhibit: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: The Flames that Fanned Reform
Rebecca Loring, Clarkstown South Shs, West Nyack
Ancient Order of the Hibernians Award
Junior Group Web Site: Home Rule in Ireland
Abigail Bemis & Lindsey Garrant, Farnsworth Ms, Guilderland
Arab and Islamic History Award
Senior Group Performance: The Fourth World Conference on Women: The Perpetual Struggle for Universal Gender Equity
Tasnim Ahmed, Ava Myint and Mohan Hasan, Stuyvesant Hs, New York
Bassett Healthcare Award
Junior Individual Documentary: Medicare
Peter O'Neill ,Felix V. Festa Ms, West Nyack
Cooperstown Graduate Association Award
Junior Individual Exhibit: Drop the Bomb - A decision that changed history
Nicholas Harris, Baldwin Middle School Baldwin
Ethnic and Minority Studies Award
Junior Historical Paper: On Death Row
Alexa Foley, Victor Jhs, Victor
Junior Individual Exhibit: Fugitive Slave Act and the Trial of Anthony Burns
Shannon Sears Cherry Valley-Springfield Jshs, Cherry Valley
Junior Group Exhibit: Fading Nation
Eliana Zimmerman and Dakota Peterson, Nyack Ms, Nyack
Junior Group Exhibit: Qurantine:The Restriction of Citizenship
Jennifer Callahan, Daniella Glikman, Alexandra Kyriakides, Ruthvik Avvari and Meghan Ng Is 78 Roy H. Mann, Brooklyn
Senior Historical Paper: Unintended Consequences: Slavery and the Mexican American War
Alexandra Barlowe, Ethical Culture The Fieldston School, Bronx
Senior Individual Exhibit: Ingles o Espanol: The Debate Over Bilingualism
Brooke Gottlieb, George W. Hewlett Hs, Hewlett
Senior Group Exhibit: When Debate and Diplomacy Fail: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Abigail Schnoor and Lixinbei Jing Guilderland Hs, Guilderland Center
Senior Group Exhibit: Ali & the Draft
SColin Smith and Aaron Everitt, Henendehowa Hs, Clifton Park
Senior Individual Web Sites: Do We Really Pick Our President? The Electoral College Debate
Jillian Foley, Livonia Shs, Livonia
Kalmar and Folk Family Award
Senior Historical Paper: The Holocaust Debate: A Denial of Truth
Lily Cisco, Livonia Shs, Livonia
Middlefield Historical Association Award
Senior Individual Exhibit: Conservation, Competition, Coexistence: Making Peace With Wolves
Rachel Lee, Clayton A. Bouton Hs, Voorheesville
Museumwise Award of Excellence
Junior Group Performance: The Stonewall Rebellion; the spark that set ablaze a nation
Meaghan McGovern and Mackenzie Badick, Felix V. Festa Ms, West Nyack
National Baseball Hall of Fame Award
Senior Group Web Sites: The Boycott of the 1980 & 1984 Olympics
Kate Davin and Alexis Apollonio, Livonia Shs, Livonia
National Maritime Historical Society Award
Junior Group Web Sites: Erie Canal: Government vs. Private Financing
Akash Advaney, Daniel Esposito, Kanav Gupta and Rahiq Rafeeq (Mohamed) Jericho Ms, Jericho
Junior Individual Web Sites: Barbary Wars
Jacob Tabor, Milford Central School, Milford
Senior Individual Web Sites: LBJ & the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
SSanjay Anchar, Henendehowa Hs, Clifton Park
New York Council for the Humanities Award for a Civil Society
Senior Individual Documentary: Journey of a Social Movement: Debate and Diplomacy in Civil Rights
Cecilia Paasche, Ethical Culture The Fieldston School, Bronx
New York State Archives Partnership Trust Award
Junior Individual Performance: The Controversy over the African Burial Ground
Tayael McCallop, School 23,Yonkers
New York State Historical Association Award
Senior Group Documentary: Hispanic Hope and Success: The Debate and Diplomacy over Spanish Harlem
Gillian Slavit, Rohit Jain, Parth Patel and Michael Cohanpour, Herricks Hs, New Hyde Park
The Farmers' Museum Award
Junior Historical Paper: Confederate Diplomacy and Its Effects on the War
Benjamin Goes, Farnsworth Ms, Guilderland
Thomas W Malone Award
Junior Individual Web Sites: Civil War Diplomacy
Jeremy Brislin, Farnsworth Ms, Guilderland
West Kortright Center Award
Senior Individual Performance: Benjamin Franklin : America's Diplomat
Cody Ingraham, Guilderland Hs, Guilderland Center
Women's History Award
Senior Group Documentary: Too Strong For a Woman
Anna Bruzgulis, Kaethe Leonard and Daniela Vitale, Cicero-North Syracuse Hs, Cicero |
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