New Jersey History Day State Competition Qualifier List 2017 – Monmouth University
Junior Papers
Name: Rachel Kaniuk
Entry: The White Rose: The Power of Passive Resistance
School: Branchburg Central Middle School
Name: Natalie Radu
Entry: Grabbing Stars
School: Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School
Name: Lillian Mikulski
Entry: Two Feet Versus Four Feet: The Animal Rights Movement (1)
School: Woodglen School
Name: Anderson Olson
Entry: Muhammad Ali: Upholding Civil Rights and Fighting for his Beliefs
School: Woodglen School
Name: Elise Hofbeck
Entry: Roger Williams: Taking a Stand Against Apartheid
School: Woodglen School
Name: Kevin Menzie
Entry: The Cambodian Genocide: Aid, Awareness, and Justice through Reporting
School: Woodglen School
Junior Individual Performances
Name: Francesca Morella
Entry: The Soldiers inside Her
School: Woodglen School
Junior Group Performances
Name: Anna Riley, Kate Lowry, Savannah Leach, Chase Melchionni
Entry: Fly Girls
School: The Peck School
Junior Individual Documentaries
Name: Shivam Syal
Entry: Joan of Arc: The
Maid of Orleans
School: Woodrow Wilson Middle
School
Name: Sunaya D. Mueller
Entry: Maya Lin and the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial: Changing How
We Remember the Past
School: Dwight-Englewood School
Elizabeth Carson
Name: Ishani Mhatre
Entry: Harriet Tubman and the
Underground Railroad: Standing
Against Slavery
School: Woodrow Wilson Middle
School
Junior Group Documentaries
GROUP 1
Name: Kieran McLean, Kyle Rakovitsky, Peter Gertsenshteyn
Entry: Medgar Evers: A missing Piece to the Puzzle of
Freedom
School: Marlboro Middle School
Name: Shreyes Varde, Pratham Bhavesh Bhatt,
Owen Shen, Aashish Pandya
Entry: Defying The Tanks: The Protest Against
Communism at Tiananmen Square
School: Woodrow Wilson Middle School
GROUP 2
Name: Megan Di Giovanni & Thomas Menzie
Entry: The Boxer Rebellion: Taking A Stand Against
Westernization and the Spread of Foreign Influence
School: Woodglen School
Name: Michael Tepperman, Michael Chen
Entry: Chiune Sugihara: Counterfeiting History to Rewrite the Future
School: Marlboro Middle School
Name: Erika Kan & Roma Agarwal
Entry: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland: The Strive for
A New Path
School: Marlboro Middle School
Junior Individual Websites
Name: Rhea Chandragiri
Entry: Susan B. Anthony: Women, Their Rights, and Nothing Less
School: Manalapan- Englishtown Middle School
Name: Jordan Cheung
Entry: Susan Brownell Anthony: Taking a Stand in Equal Rights
School: The Peck School
Name: Sarah Siddiqi
Entry: Leaping Over Racial Discrimination: Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olypics
School: Manalapan- Englishtown Middle School
Junior Group Websites
Name: Ryan Cheung, Owen Patrick
Entry: Helen Keller’s Stand against Disability Bias
School: The Peck School
Name: Carolyn Coyne, Katarina Andersen, Annabel Plante, Lila Mortensen
Entry: Facing the Holocaust: The Stands for the Unity of Humanity
and Families
School: The Peck School
Name: Lauren Boyle, Anika Chugh
Entry: Women’s Suffrage: Taking a Stand for the Ballot
School: Branchburg Central Middle School
Name: Joel Harnanto, Adrian Zeni, Joe Picarillo, Dan Smith, Ben
Ondis
Entry: Winston Churchhill- The Stand of the Century
School: Branchburg Central Middle School
Junior Indivual Exhibits
GROUP 1
Name: Carly Stern
Entry: Busting out of the Home: Betty Friedan
School: Pine Brook School
Name: Nithika Ramanathan
Entry: The Japanese Schlinder
School: Auten Road Intermediate School
GROUP 2
Name: Devan Patel
Entry: Sri Aurobindo – Indian Freedom Fighter
School: Manalapan- Englishtown Middle School
Name: Grace Trumpy
Entry: The Sons of Liberty: The Keys to Unlocking a World of Independence
School: Woodglen School
GROUP 3
Name: Evan Schley
Entry: The Dangers of Coal Mining
School: Auten Road Intermediate School
Name: Charlotte Bruchey
Entry: The Fight to Fight- Women in WWII
School: Auten Road Intermediate School
GROUP 4
Name: Logan Elibacher
Entry: Jackie Robinson:
The Game Changer
School: Auten Road Intermediate School
Name: Raj Boparai
Entry: Alice Paul- The New Jersey Activist
School: Auten Road Intermediate School
Junior Group Exhibits
GROUP 1
Name: Janelle Tecson, Amy Joseph, Lesley Joseph, Mary Mourad, Bethany Keith
Entry: Die Well & Rose
School: Lovell J. Honisss School
Name: Meghan Karach, Anna Kordzakhia, Sammy Mullins
Entry: Taking a Stand for Our National Bank
School: Lovell J. Honiss School
GROUP 2
Name: Nicole McHugh, Francesca
Muffoletto
Entry: Ruby Bridges: A Lifetime of
Standing Up to Make a Difference
School: Lovell J. Honiss School
Name: Eepsh Singh, Aditi Tyagi, Shruti Tyagi
Entry: Irena Sedler: Defier of the Nazis, Savior of the Jews
School: Woodrow Wilson Middle School
GROUP 3
Name: Isabella Vitolo, Casey Conboy, Katie Buscavage, Grace
Sullivan
Entry: Lucy Stone: Standing Up and Making a Difference
School: Lovell J. Honiss School
Name: Emily Wynne, Julia Caprari
Entry: The Stonewall Riots: Fighting For Equality
School: H.B. Whitehorne Middle School
GROUP 4
Name: Isabella DiPasquale, Elizabeth Sterlin
Entry: The Astor Place Riot – taking a stand for theatre
School: The Peck School
Name: Jonathan Fu, Will Ackerman, James Rollo, Sulayman Tariq
Entry: The Berlin Wall: The Wall of Injustice
School: The Peck School
Name: Nishaant Shah, Manir Hede
Entry: GALILEO: Father of Modern Science
School: Auten Road Intermediate School
SENIOR PAPERS
Name: Tiara Paul
Entry: Elizabeth Blackwell: Pioneering Reform in Medicine and Society
School: Biotechnology High School
Name: Amanda Melchiorri
Entry: The Newark Race Riots: Taking a Stand against Racial Injustice
School: Homeschool
Name: Grace Liang
Entry: A Turning Point in the Roman Empire: Constantine’s Political Motives for the Rise of
Christianity
School: Bergen County Academies
Name: Anurag Pratap
Entry: The Industrial Workers of the World: Revolutionary Stance against Labor Exploitation through
Universal Membership, Industrial Democracy, and Sabotage
School: Hasbrouck Heights High School
Name: Jia Shi
Entry: Mercy and Humaneness: Prince Fusu Took a Stand against Tyranny
School: Rutgers Preparatory School
Name: Eric Suh
Entry: The Songs of Resistance: The musical Patriotism of Jean Sibelius and Bruce Springsteen
School: Horace Mann School
Name: Varun Sikand
Entry: The Knights of Labor: Taking a Stand for the Common American Laborer
School: Ranney School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
Name: Sofia Ebio
Entry: Sarah Corson Downs: Fighting for Temperance and Women’s Rights in New Jersey
School: Oakland
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTRIES
GROUP 1
Name: Kirin DasGupta Mueller
Entry: “Taking a Stand for Global Equality: The Peters Equal Area Projection”
School: Dwight- Englewood
Name: Allison Chen
Entry: “You Tell Us Nothing”: Margaret Sanger and the Fight to Access Contraceptive Information.
School: West Windsor
GROUP 2
Name: Cindy Zhang
Entry: Fela Kuti: “Music is the Weapon of the Future”
School: Ranney School
Name: Alexander Fezza
Entry: The Tupac Amaru Rebellion: Taking a Stand for the Natives
School: Homeschool
SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTRIES
GROUP 1
Name: Kevin Kim, Marc Vitenzon
Entry: The Lone Crusade: Clair Cameron Patterson and the Battle against America’s Lead
Contamination
School: Tenafly High School
Name: Olukayode Oladeji, Ethan Brandon
Entry: Eugene V. Debs: The Union Strikes Back
School: Ranney School
GROUP 2
Name: Eve Plotka, Murat Alpa, Kevin Marien
Entry: E.D. Morel: Exposing the Congo’s Dark Heart
School: Freehold Township High School
Name: Owen Crane, Will Forte, Carly Nocchi, Ben Alonso
Entry: Tank Man: A Story of Democracy, Freedom and Hope
School: Wall High School
SENIOR GROUP WEBSITES
Names: Arpan Sahoo, Darrel D’Souza, Jonathan Shen, Jeffrey Chen
Entry: The Russian Revolution: How World War I Enabled the Proletariat to Take a Stand
School: Homeschool
Names: Amulya Balakirishnan, Sowmya Patapati, Amira Arora
Entry: Indira Gandhi: Breaking the Glass Ceiling for Women in Indian Society
School: Bergen County Academies
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS
Names: Kiran Singh
Entry: Margaret Sanger: Giving Women the Right to Choose
School: Freehold Township High School
Name: Catherine Vucetic
Entry: Standing Up to the Shah: The Iranian Revolution
School: Ranney School
SENIOR GROUP EXHIBITS
GROUP 1
Name: John McGrath, David Forcellati
Entry: The Hungarian Revolution
School: Pascack Valley High School
Name: Drew Aral, Jacob Ricco, Jake Aferiat, Nicholas Di’Bari
Entry: La Resistance: Rebellion, Anarchy, and the Underground
School: Pascack Valley High School
GROUP 2
Name: Jason Banks, Daniel Li, Daniel Hawkins
Entry: Combatants for Peace: Taking a Stand against Violence in the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict
School: Tenafly High School
Name: Sarah McCambridge, Regina Guzzo, Matilda Gaugler
Entry: Women’s Suffrage in the U.K.: Sticking it to the Man
School: Pascack Valley High School