GREATER BOSTON HISTORY DAY
MARCH 6, 2016
WINNERS
Junior Historical Papers
1st Place: Maggie Lehman Little Rock Nine Monsignor [Haddad School]
2nd Place: Ella McCarey The Man Behind the Miracle Mold [Winthrop MS]
3rd Place: Henri Schuette The Irish Potato Famine: The disaster that identified America [Ottoson School]
Honorable Mentions (In No Particular Order)
Kate O'Rourke Walt Whitman: The change in the style and content of American Poetry [Ottoson School]
Maria Carmona My Nanny Speaks Portuguese [Medford/ Andrews Middle School ]
Santiago Peralta God vs. Monkey: Exploring the Galapagos Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
Senior Historical Papers
1st Place: Ruth Zheng The Iran Hostage Crisis: A Crisis of the Future [Lexington HS]
2nd Place: Paul Sullivan The Effects of Class and Race on Encounters Between American Gay Activists [CRLS]
3rd Place: Marshall McKenna The Importance of Nazi Scientists in the Cold War [Lexington HS]
Honorable Mention (In No Particular Oder]
Lauren Lavey “Exploration of the Human Body” Andreas Vaselius’ Monumental Contribution to Modern Science [Winchester HS]
Michael McAlarney The Homestead and Pullman Strikes [Lexington HS]
Krishna Suraj A Diplomatic Exchange: American Influence in Panama and the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty [Lexington HS]
Junior Individual Performance
1st Place: Alexandra Jones 72 Days, 6 Hours, 11 Minutes: Nellie Bly’s Journey around the World [Kennedy School]
2nd Place: Nathan Pokress Nikola Tesla: Powering the World [Ottoson School]
Senior Individual Performance
1st Place: Jeffrey Mei Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange: America’s First Subway [Mystic Valley]
2nd Place: Soleil Francois Angela Davis: Cultural Encounters and Exchange [Mystic Valley]
3rd Place: Sarah Sylvan Dian Fossey [Needham HS]
Junior Group Performance
1st Place: John Steinke, Ari Vinayak and Chiara Ruberto Radio Caroline’s Offshore Broadcasting: The Exploration of Government Dominance Over British Radio
[Ottoson HS]
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2 Place: Idris Abercrombie, Cheyenne Stringfellow, Benicio Taggart, Ana Shahrouzi, and Emanne Balaghi Alan Turing and the Bombe: An Encounter with German
Nazi Code [Chenery]
Senior Group Performance
1st Place: Eddie Pizzano, Zack McCarville Alan Turing: The Unknown Hero [Stoneham HS]
2nd Place: Julian Ospina, Nicco D’Alleva, Tommy Callanan, Omar Alani, Harun Sinanovic Nuclear Power Harnessed: Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange
[Mystic Valley]
Junior Individual Documentary
1st Place: Lauren Murphy The Percy Amendment: Exploring Gender Equality Through the Establishment of Non Profit Organizations [Ottoson, Arlington]
2nd Place: Timothy Labounko The Change of the Average American: The Post-War Industrial Revolution [Kennedy, Somerville]
3rd Place: Maggie Delaney The Beatles [Monsignor Haddad]
Senior Individual Documentary
1st Place: Shane Collins Encounter at Waco [Stoneham HS]
2nd Place: Kate Morgan Jazz in Color [Hingham HS]
3rd Place: Mark Bacon Charles Darwin and his Exchangesthat Reshaped the Natural World [Winchester HS]
Honorable Mentions (In No Particular Order]
Isha Khanzode No-llywood to Bollywood: Dadasaheb Phalke’s Exploration through Film [Winchester HS]
Junior Group Documentary
1st Place: Grace Walters & Hannah Lee The Freedom Rides of 1961: The exploration of Racial Equality [Ottoson, Arlington]
2nd Place: Varun Gopal and Jackson McNamara The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Star: The transformation into a Red North Korea [Ottoson, Arlington]
3rd Place: Olivia Plotkin,Thalia Volitantes and Rosemary Raughley Lowell Mill Girls: Exploring the harsh conditions and inequality of factory life
[Ottoson, Arlington]
Honorable Mention
Henry Lindemann, Danny Sheehan Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [Catholic Memorial]
Senior Group Documentary
1st Place: Varahunan Mathiyalakan, Justin Yu Epitome of Exchange: Indian Ocean Renaissance [Winchester HS]
2nd Place: Eleanor Haney, Vivian Hua, Jacklyn Sun Stolen Generation [Needham HS]
3rd Place: Josh Weinstein, Maggie Messina, Tim Andre Manhattan Project [Needham HS]
Honorable Mentions (In No Particular Order]
Adriana Chiaramida, Natalie Daniels, Sophia Kheboian "We Want Bread, and Roses too." The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 [Stoneham HS]
Henry Dodds, Jackson Megar, Matthew Lorence Russian Film School [Needham HS]
Junior Individual Website
1st Place: Max Davis Telecommunication: Opening the American West [Stoneham HS]
2nd Place: Vyja Bernard 19th Century Whaling [Monsignor Haddad]
3rd Place: Griffin Gould Robert Fortune: How he made your cup of tea [Ottoson, Arlington]
Honorable Mention (In No Particular Order]
Reid Gutz Biosphere 2: Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange [Catholic Memorial]
Lilian Impastato Sputnik [Monsignor Haddad]
Senior Individual Website
1st Place: Vivian Nguyen Abigail Adams [Mystic Valley HS]
2nd Place: Sam Wolfield Rosalind Franklin [Needham HS]
3rd Place: Hayley Levin Spying and Codebreaking by the Allied Forces During World War II [Weston HS]
Honorable Mention
Julia Carino Faneuil Hall: Where America Learned to Speak [Stoneham HS]
Junior Group Website
1st Place: Genevieve Baldwin, Eleanor Freed From Sputnik to Apollo: The Exploration of Space [Ottoson]
2nd Place: Sagar Rastogi, Connor Rempe The Lost Boys of Sudan: A Journey Towards a Better Life [Ottoson]
3rd Place: Paul Guiney, Sean Kelly Encounter, Exchange and Exploration of Ellis Island [Catholic Memorial]
Honorable Mention
Matt Marchant, Jonathan Wood Jackie Robinson: A Man of Many Attributes [Stoneham HS]
Senior Group Website
1st Place: Nilos Makino, Ethan Wong Japanese American Internment: The Issei-Nisei Divide [Winchester HS]
2nd Place: Elizabeth Ehl, Caroline Conway Charles Darwin: Explorer WhoStarted a Revolution [Winchester HS]
3rd Place: Hannah DiGiovanni, Taylor Gibson, Menel Lamadzema, Hannah Stewart Rosalind Franklin and the Groundbreaking Discovery of DNA [Mystic Valley]
Honorable Mention (In No Particular Order)
Jacob Gorenburg, Alex Partridge House of Wisdom [Needham HS]
Jared Factor, Matthew Hansen The Men Behind The Manhattan Project: The Forgotten MIT Scientists That Helped Create the Atomic Bomb. [Stoneham HS]
Jackson Segal, Conor Hynes Exploration of Australia [Needham HS]
Junior Individual Exhibits
1st Place: Kristina McCarron Chernobyl [Monsignor Haddad]
2nd Place: Katherine Woodworth The Polio Vaccine [Monsignor Haddad]
3rd Place: Will Fleck Operation Market-Garden:A Bridge Too Far [Catholic Memorial]
Honorable Mention (In No Particular Order)
Sandra Le The RMS Titanic Madeli[ne English, Everett]
Abigail Cogliandro Civil War Medicine [Monsignor Haddad]
Sam Widdison The Encounter with Luftwaffe Sparked the Exploration of New Aircrafts: Boeing B-17 [Chenery, Belmont]
Senior Individual Exhibits
1st Place: Brenda Medeiros HeLa Cells [Stoneham HS]
2nd Place: Nicole Castano Encountering Eugenics In America [Stoneham HS]
3rd Place: Briana DiMartino Your DNA Can and Will be Used Against You in a Court of Law: Citizens' Exchange Rights for a Safer Society [Stoneham HS]
Honorable Mention (In No Particular Order)
David Yin Expulsion of the Acadians [Needham HS]
Micah Alexander Viking Invasions of Ireland [Needham HS]
Delia Perillo Wyoming Women Win the Right to Vote [Stoneham HS]
Matthew Jens The Successful Exploration of Representative ConstitutionalDemocracy Through Exchange [Winchester HS]
Junior Group Exhibits
1st Place: Helen Bonardi & Allie DeFrancisco The Brothers Grimm: An Exploration of Literary Styles and it’s Influence on Modern Day Fairy Tales
[Ottoson, Arlington]
2nd Place: Louisa Baldwin and Serena Bernstein French Impressionism: Exploring New Art Techniques [Ottoson, Arlington]
3rd Place: Rebecca Kalik and Wan Tong Victoria Chan Bela Schick: Exploring Medicine through the Eradication of Diphtheria [Ottoson, Arlington]
Honorable Mention (In No Particular Order)
Emma Levell and Maggie Sczupak My Journey As a Japanese-American: Fred Korematsu and the Japanese Internment Camps [Ottoson, Arlington]
Katie Buffinger, Eleanor Mackey, Nicole Allen The Sarah Roberts Case: The Original Challenge to School Segregation [Pollard, Needham]
Senior Group Exhibits
1st Place: Tina Nguyen, Lauren Maher, Rebecca Webb, Karen Mortimer Encountering Ether: The Exploration and Exchange of Inhaled Anesthetics
[Mystic Valley HS]
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2 Place: Mari Avola, Pat Cann, Meg Cleary, Dylan Oesch-Emmel The Boston Post Road: The Backbone of American Communication and the Establishment of a
National Identity [Stoneham HS]
3rd Place: Sophie Antoniou, Isabella Raczkowski Police Reform [Stoneham HS]
Honorable Mention (In No Particular Order)
Isabel Barnet, Rose Evans, Mimi Di Carli Waco, Texas [Needham HS]
Vivian Nguyen, Lulu Tian The Faithful Spy: Elizabeth van Lew’s Exchanges with the Northern Enemy [Winchester HS]
Molly McLeod, Alice Rufo Heliocentrism vs Geocentrism [Needham HS]