New Jersey History Day State Competition Qualifier List 2017 – Rutgers University
Junior Papers
Name: Arya Sasne
Entry: The Definition of Free: The Amistad Revolt’s Impact on Abolition and Slavery in the Years
Leading Up to the Civil War
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
Name: Annie Ma
Entry: Taking a Stand against Monopolies: Theodore Roosevelt, the Fearless Leader of Antitrust
School: Community Middle School
Junior Individual Performances
Name: Sandhya Ganesh
Entry: Queen Boadicea: Uniting Discontented Tribes against Rome
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
Name: Summer Qureshi
Entry: Taking a Stand in History: Brown V. Board of Education
School: Princeton Day School
Junior Group Performances
Name: Kayla Sullivan, Avery Sullivan, Emilie Puja, Galilea Estrada
Entry: Queen Liluokalani: Standing up to American Imperialism
School: Midtown Community School
Name: Jordan Pelovitz, Madeline Weeks, Sarah DeFalco
Entry: Bombs From Broomsticks: Soviet Night Witches Took a Stand During WWII
School: Lawrence Middle School
Junior Individual Documentaries
GROUP 1
Name: Oliver Zhong
Entry: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Taking a Stand at the Paterson Silk Strike
School: Community Middle School
Name: Anika Kapoor
Entry: “I Ain’t Marching Anymore”: Anti-Vietnam Music Galvanizes a Generation to Sing Out
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
Name: Pratyoy Biswas
Entry: Linguistic Rights: Standing Up for your Mother Tongue
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
GROUP 2
Name: James Li
Entry: The Weather Underground: Taking a Stand against American Imperialism
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
Name: Akash Bobba
Entry: Documenting the Double Helix: Rosalind Franklin’s Uncredited DNA Research
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
Name: Meghna Sudhakar
Entry: God, Man, The Universe & the Occasional Woman: Wu Ze Tian’s Stand against Gender
Constraints in Confucian China
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
GROUP 3
Name: Melinda Chen
Entry: Taking the Road Less Travelled: Rachel Carson’s stand against DDT Sparks an Era of Environment
Consciousness
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
Name: Richard Zhou
Entry: The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: A “Concrete” Stand Against 3 Nation
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Abhi Iyer
Entry: Paul Robeson: The Underrated Leader Who Took a Stand Against Racial Bias
School: Lawrence Middle School
GROUP 4
Name: Cassie Wang
Entry: John Muir, Defender of Nature, Takes a Stand against Industrialization
School: Thomas Grover Middle School
Name: Lina Chihoub
Entry: Information, Entertainment, Sabotage: How the BBC Took a Stand Against the Nazis in WWII
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Mathew Duncan
Entry: Black Hair: Taking a Stand for Heritage and Revolution
School: Lawrence Middle School
Junior Group Documentaries
GROUP 1
Name: Arjun Agarwal, John Weaver
Entry: The Ten Day Stand That Defined a Free Country
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Leo Granite, Sarah Bellon, Gianna Smitherman, Gabrielle Matro, Isha Kothari
Entry: Two Sister with a Single Determination: The Grimke’s Journey to Equality
School: Rosa International Middle School
Name: Cathryn Kuczynski, Gabriella M. Megale
Entry: The Story of Gena Turgel
School: Nicholas Oresko School
GROUP 2
Name: Asha Mohapatra, Gabrielle O’Brien, Sam Bitman, Shayna Herzfeld
Entry: The Statement that Revealed the Truth: Josiah DuBois, an American Holocaust Hero
School: Rosa International Middle School
Name: Adithi Ponakampalli, Miduna Rishindran
Entry: Alice Paul: Taking a Stand by Building the Ballot
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Dana Cohen, Kaitlyn Flefka, Jacqueline Smith
Entry: The Forgotten Stories of Women
School: Rosa International Middle School
GROUP 3
Name: Stephen Flynn, Michael Kangaju, Julieanna Lam, Michela Auguadro
Entry: A Man Who Forged a Nation, Revolutionized a World: Nelson Mandela
School: Rosa International Middle School
Name: Yulia Gu, Phoebe Ryu
Entry: Tiananmen Square: Standing Up Against the Chinese Communist Party
School: Lawrence Middle School
Junior Individual Websites
Name: Rena Hayashi
Entry: Korean War: The Ones Who Stood
School: Nicholas Oresko School
Name: Petra Ghaly
Entry: Joan of Arc
School: Washington Community School
Junior Group Websites
Name: Eric Maest, Suraj Kura
Entry: Spying in Secrecy: The Culper Spy Ring’s Stand against the British
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Dessy Dusichka, Amritha Sypereddi
Entry: Taking a Stand against Congress: Benedict Arnold’s Reasons for Treasons
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Karen Ni, Muhra Youssef, Abigail Rooney
Entry: Taking a Stand for Women’s Rights: I Shall not be disappointed woman
School: Lincoln Community School
Name: Aislin Robb, Ishika Patel
Entry: Herbert Hoover: Saving Belgium
School: Middle Township Middle School
Junior Indivual Exhibits
GROUP 1
Name: Naiya Roe
Entry: Eleanor Roosevelt
School: Nicholas Oresko School
Name: Maya Mau
Entry: Judith E. Heumann – Taking a Stand for the Rights of the Disabled in a Wheelchair
School: Community Middle School
GROUP 2
Name: Jared Sinrich
Entry: Rosa International Middle School
School: Standing Up Through Sitting In
Name: Ricardo Lizardi
Entry: Tommie Smith & John Carlos: Taking a Stand with an Outstretched Fist
School: West Deptford Middle School
GROUP 3
Name: Lindsey Wright
Entry: The Tiananmen Square Massacre: Taking a Stand
School: West Deptford Middle School
Name: Lily Cohen
Entry: Kind Heart, Iron Fist, Forgotten Diplomat: Raoul Wallenberg
School: Rosa International Middle School
GROUP 4
Name: Ayla Rios
Entry: George Washington’s Successful Stand through Spying
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Aaron Ladinsky
Entry: The Magna Carta: Standing for the Rights of the People
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Nicole Abbott
Entry: The Feminist Art Movement: A Stand against Society
School: West Deptford Middle School
Junior Group Exhibits
GROUP 1
Name: Ramier Villarama, Tuchau Ly, Gina Rivas
Entry: Muhammad Ali: Taking a Stand against the Vietnam War
School: Woodrow Wilson Community School
Name: Evelyn Lee, Jaclyn Kim
Entry: Exposing Truth, Penning Change, and Forging the New Face of Journalism- Nellie Bly
School: Rosa International Middle School
GROUP 2
Name: Riley Johnson, Karley Gordon, Emma Warren Defne Kastro, Isabella Miles
Entry: A Siege, a Standm A Surrender- Victory at Yorktown
School: Rosa International Middle School
Name: Kaia Dyckman, Annie Yao
Entry: Belva Lockwood: Her Stand for Women Suffrage
School: Lawrence Middle School
GROUP 3
Name: Chloe Asack, Jack Granahan, Benjamin Lilly, Naina Pillai
Entry: Riots at Stonewall: Taking a Stand for the “Loud and Proud”
School: Lawrence Middle School
Name: Garrett Durso-Finley, Shivam Patel
Entry: “The Paul Revere of Ecology” – Barry Commoner’s Stand
School: Lawrence Middle School
GROUP 4
Name: Darian Gross, Jenna Clendaniel, Emma Engle
Entry: Establishing the Principles of Liberty: The Magna Carta
School: West Deptford Middle School
Name: Hope Williams, Veronica Antonov
Entry: Oskar Schindler: The Unspoken Hero
School: Rosa International Middle School
SENIOR PAPERS
Name: Alexandra Li
Entry: Taking a Stand for the Union: Sarah Emma Edmonds- Female Soldier in the War of Rebellion
School: West Windsor- Plainsboro High School
Name: Sophia Burns
Entry: The AIDS Epidemic, Altruism and Anguish: How a Virus Changed the American Public’s
Perception of One Another
School: Bayonne High School
Name: Chelsea E. Gankhuy
Entry: Effects of U.S. Rule on Native Hawaiian Rights
School: West Windsor Plainsboro High School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
Name: Aditi Nayak
Entry: Rani Laxmi Bai: Taking A Stand Against the British Empire
School: West Windsor- Plainsboro High School North
Name: Mathew Rossi
Entry: Cocktails and Corpses: The Fatal Impact of Prohibition as Proclaimed by Dr. Charles Norris,
New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner
School: West Windsor- Plainsboro High School North
SENIOR GROUP PERFORAMNCE
Name: Citlali Uraga, Julianna Giornalista
Entry: The Grimke Sisters – Taking a Stand to Abolish Slavery and Advocate for Women’s Rights
School: Bayonne High School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTRIES
Name: Sharatt Seenivasar
Entry: Black Panther: Confronting Racism in Literature
School: West Windsor- Plainsboro High School North
Name: Saurav Sanjay
Entry: Grace Hopper: Bringing Words to Computing
School: West Windsor Plainsboro High School North
Name: Ben Rozario
Entry: Taking a Stand against the British: The Resurgence of the Continental Army at Valley Forge
School: Bayonne High School
SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTRIES
GROUP 1
Name: Manasa Mula, Varsha Sriram
Entry: Propaganda Meets Picture: Walt Disney Productions Bridges the Gap between Government
and Public during World War II
School: West- Windsor Plainsboro High School North
Name: Haseeb Mughal, Karolen Eid, Kirtika Sharad, Emily Girgis
Entry: Raphael Lemkin: Fighting the Nameless Horror
School: Bayonne High School
Name: Ali Shakir, Defne Alpdogan, Joshua Pipe, Daniel Jacob
Entry: A Stance of Truth against a Web of Deception- - Woodward, Bernstein and Watergate
School: Cherry Hill High School East
GROUP 2
Name: Mathew Merovitz, Melissa Kim
Entry: Taking a Stand against the Monarchy: Thomas Paine’s Fight for Independence
School: Cherry Hill High School East
Name: Shreyasvi Gowda, Isha Patlola
Entry: The Impact of an American Initiative: Congress Takes a Stand against Apartheid
School: West Windsor- Plainsboro High School North
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITES
Name: Meghana Srivastava
Entry: A Mosaic of a Movement: Alice Paul and the Fight for Women’s Rights
School: West- Windsor Plainsboro High School North
Name: Akila Saravanan
Entry: “Vindication of Right” over “Victory of Might”: JFK’s Stand during the Cuban Missile Crisis
School: West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
Name: Andrew Sam
Entry: John Marshall Harlan Sr., the Lone Dissenter: Taking a Stand for Civil Rights
School: Lawrence High School
Name: Anika Prakash
Entry: Strangers On a Bridge: James Donovan’s Stand Against Communist Hostility and for Human Life
School: West Windsor- Plainsboro High School South
SENIOR GROUP WEBSITES
Names: Aikya Varanasi, Supraja Sowmiyanarayanan
Entry: DITH PRAN: UNEARTHING THE REALITY OF THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE
School: West Windsor Plainsboro High School North
Names: Maureen Hernandez, Rebecca Herrera, Victoria Sakowska
Entry: The War on Poverty: Johnson Stands for “The Other America”
School: Bayonne High School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS
GROUP 1
Name: Bhavishya Banda
Entry: Temple Grandin: “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds”
School: West Windsor- Plainsboro High School
Name: Hareem Awan
Entry: Horace Mann and the Fight for Quality Education
School: Bayonne High School
GROUP 2
Name: Anika Vincent
Entry: Margaret Sanger: The Battle for Women’s Health
School: West Windsor Plainsboro High School
Name: Adeline Ripberger
Entry: Katherine Johnson: Taking a Stand for African American and Women’s Rights as a Human
Computer
School: Lawrence High School
SENIOR GROUP EXHIBITS
GROUP 1
Name: Diorys Savinon, Catherine Franco
Entry: The Little Rock Nine Stand Against Segregation
School: Bayonne High School
Name: Kristina Kuckailis, Daria Kukhar, Jessica Tanuos
Entry: The Romanov Family: Standing for an Imperial Russia
School: Bayonne High School