Sacramento County History Day • March 3, 2012 • Sacramento, California
Qualifiers for Advancement to
California History Day April 27-29
Riverside, California
Category
Project Title
Students
School
Nishita Bagaria, Nisha Kyathsandra
Russell Ranch
Elementary
Alexandra Espinoza, Iman Kasabian
Theodore Judah El.
Siva Kishore Polavali, Jacob Rheams
Russell Ranch El.
Kirstin Wong
Sutterville El.
Deveshi Buch
Theodore Judah El.
Megan Campeau
Russell Ranch El.
Jenny Li, Lindsay Ou, Julia Ng, Fanny Huang
Sam Brannan Middle
Yu Yin Zhou, Blake Kaiser-Lack, John Tropel, Nikki
Yoshihara, Chris Wong
Sam Brannan Middle
Huaning Wang
Folsom Middle
Henry Ankhelyi
Folsom Middle
Abigail Taylor
Toby Johnson Middle
Laura Farris
St. Francis High
Anne Sompayrac
St. Francis High
Isabella Martinez
St. Francis High
Sierra Wentz
Vista del Lago High
2-Dimensional (Poster) Display
Group The Occupation of Alcatraz: Start of a New Movement
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Honorable
Mention Award
The Black Death Killer Disease Strikes Europe
*Juvenile Justice of California
Individual Japanese-Americans Lose Their Rights
Mary Tsukamoto Family Trust Award
The Revolutionary Tracks: A Transcontinental Railroad
that Changed America
*Trail of Tears
Performance
Junior Group The Boxer Rebellion: Reaction in China Towards
Foreigners
Chinese American Council of Sacramento Award
Cover It Up: The Public’s Reaction to A Doll’s House
Women’s History Award
Historical Research Paper
Junior The Cultural Revolution of China: Annihilating Culture
Through Political and Class Struggle
Chinese American Council of Sacramento Award
The Steam Engine and How it Revolutionized Modern
Power
*Toby Johnson: The Man, the School and the Legacy
Sacramento County Historical Society Award
Senior The Whiskey Rebellion: Is “A Little Rebellion A Good
Thing?”
Revolutionizing Medicine: John Gibbon’s Heart-Lung
Machine Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Assn.
Medical Museum Honorable Mention Award
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: The Reaction and
Reform
*Leaving Behind More Than Footprints: The
Revolutionary Alliance Between John Muir and
Theodore Roosevelt and the Lasting Reform on the
United States Conservation Movement
Sacramento County Office of Education www.scoe.net
* Alternate
Category
Project
Students
School
Ramya Singamsetty, Saachi Sikaria
Folsom Middle
Sam Basilio, Stanley Ou, Isabelle Samosa, Brandon
Charriere
Alyssa Wang, Olivia Chainkin, Emma Jorgensen,
Gehena Grish
Shreya Sahoo
Sam Brannan Middle
Seth Patterson
Sam Brannan Middle
Evan Norris
Sam Brannan Middle
Shyamal Buch, Paul Kasrazadeh
Vista del Lago High
Amit Talreja, Timothy Rupasinghe
Folsom High
Jose de Jesus Rivas-Garcia, Heather Manzanares,
Hoang Tran, Marc Smith, Anastasia Kazak
Valmik Karam, Sameer Shishpal Rawat
Cordova High
Website
Junior Group American Reaction to “the Reds”
Revolutionizing Religion: The Printing Press’s Impact on
Colonial America
*Woodstock ’69: The Festival that Revolutionized Pop
Culture
Junior Individual The 1979 Iranian Revolution: “And the Chain Reaction
Continues”
Jackie Robinson: Color in Baseball
*The Miracle in Lake Placid: How a Hockey Game
Changed a Nation
Senior Group The Treaty of Versailles: Revolution, Reaction and
Reform
Dorothea Dix: Defending the Defenseless
The Nazi Revolution: The Facts about the People
*A Self Sufficient Strive: The Indian Green Revolution
Senior Individual Chinese Cultural Revolution: Impact on Politics, Culture, Ruigi Mao
and Economics
Folsom Middle
Folsom Middle
Mira Loma High
Mira Loma High
Documentary
Junior Group Proposition 98 Sacramento Historical Association
Honorable Mention
Sojourner Truth: Her Life, Her Journey, Her Revolution
*Revolution in a Boom
Milan Zhou, Danny Yang
Sutter Middle
Sala Williams, Leann Aboudiab, Karel Cobian,
Michelle Yang
Haley Karsting, Divita Pandita
Sam Brannan Middle
Folsom Middle
Junior Individual The Germ Theory: A Medical Revolution
Gahna Mujoo
Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Assn. Medical
Museum Award
The Model T: A Revolution and Reform in Transportation Abraham Fong
and Lifestyle
*Gandhi’s Nonviolence Revolution
Ishani Tyagi
Folsom Middle
Senior Group The Traitorous 8: The Spark that Lit the Silicon
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Award
A Voice Behind the Vote
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Award
The European Economic Community: Steps to a
Monetary and Political Union
Senior Individual Freedom Riders: Revolutionaries in Action
African American History Award
McCarthy Era
Megan Phelps, Kitara Crain
Vista del Lago High
Cathy Liu, Matthew Lee, Alagu Chidambaram,
Josephine Tsong
Sonakshi Tyagi, Krista Kung
Mira Loma High
Amara Lawson
Pleasant Grove High
Aishwarya Vaibhav Nadgauga
Sacramento Country Day
Sam Brannan Middle
Folsom Middle
Folsom High
2012 Sacramento County History Day Results • page 2 of 3
Sacramento County Office of Education www.scoe.net * Alternate
Category
Project
Students
School
Trajan Susa-Coelho, Gabrielle Pino
Sam Brannan Middle
Max Hamlin, Danny Eccles
Sam Brannan Middle
Lauren Akabori, Ty Coloma
Sam Brannan Middle
Shayla Maureine Nuttall
Mitchell Middle
Ford Model T
Christian Carrasco
Mitchell Middle
*The Great Depression
Adeline Raqulle Dixon
Mitchell Middle
Matt Tran, Jacob Norman, Jamie Davis
Cordova High
Battle for the Ballot
Marisa Estipona, Nivia Savio, Molly Marie Mort
Folsom High
The Theory that Redefined Health
Tyler Roush, Taylor Golden, Kaetyng Chen, Caitlyn
Karver
Kiet Tat, Nicholas Mascardo, Lawrence Sahagun
Cordova High
Exhibit
Junior Group Queen Lili’uokalani and the Overthrow of the Monarchy
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Honorable
Mention Award
The Disney Dream: Walt Disney’s Journey to a
Revolution in Animation
*Reaction to the Japanese-American Internment Camps
Genealogical & Historical Council Award
Junior Individual Gutenberg’s Printing Press Revolution
Senior Group The Social Contract Theory: The Political Guillotine
*The Growth to Filipino Independence
Senior Individual The Fight for Mexican Voter Reform: ¡Viva la Revolución! Melanie Rogers-Martel
Cordova High
St. Francis High
Copernican Revolution: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler
Gina Wu
St. Francis High
The Women’s Fashion Revolution of the Roaring ’20s
Phuong Mai
Cordova High
Non-Qualifiers Receiving Awards from Local Historical & Civic Organizations
Genealogical & Historical
Council Honorable Mention
Mary Tsukamoto Family
Trust Award
Father Can You Spare Me a Dime: The Family’s
Reaction to the Great Depression
Justice Denied: Japanese American Interment
Camps
Japanese American Internment Camps: The
Final Chapter
Sacramento City Historic
The Squatters Riots of 1850
Cemetary Committee Award
The Philippine Independence Movement
Philippine Diaspora Award
Conquering Three World Powers
Gold Trail Chapter, Nat’l
How the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga Impacted
the American Revolution
Society Daughters of the
American Revolution Award The Declaration of Independence
Sac. Co. Historical Society
Honorable Mention Award
Sierra Sacramento Valley
Medical Assn. Medical
Museum Award
Women’s History Award
The California Gold Rush: The Environmental
Impact of Hydraulic Mining
A Revolution in Medicine: The Defeat of
Smallpox
The Jarvik 7: Revolution in a Heartbeat
Women’s Reaction to World War II
Kathryn Lambert, Erin Wong
Makenna Ballard
Jaden Hoang, Anthony Anela
Sam Brannan Middle
School
Mather Heights
Elementary
Tyler Banchero
Sam Brannan Middle
Jordan Harris
Camila Wyatt
Russell Ranch Elementary
Zaid Darwish
Meghan Katharine Lawrence
St. Francis High
Allan Zhou, Jasmanbir Singh, Hersh Pathak
Folsom High
Jake Bloodsworth, Ryan von Chance-Stutler,
Akshay Rao, Anchit Sood
Alison Vogelsang
Folsom Middle
St. Francis High
2012 Sacramento County History Day Results • page 3 of 3
Sacramento County Office of Education www.scoe.net * Alternate