HCPSSHoward County Students Advance to National History Day Competition
May 14th, 2015
Nine Howard County Public School System students will advance to the National History Day Competition after winning first or second place at the Statewide Maryland History Day Competition on May 2, 2015. These students have already won competitions at the school and county level, and were competing against hundreds of students from school systems across the state. Students presented entries in five categories: exhibit, performance, multimedia documentary, research paper, and website.
In addition to the students who are moving on the Nationals, seven HCPSS students won special awards and Charla Phillips, gifted and talented resource teacher at Mayfield Woods Middle School, was honored as Howard County’s History Day Teacher of the Year.
The National History Day Competition will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park from June 14-18, 2015. For more information on National History Day, visit the official National History Day web site at http://www.nhd.org/.
Howard County category winners and special awards:
Matthew Blum from Howard High School was a winner in the Senior Individual Documentaries category for “Smallpox Eradication: The End of a Disease and the Beginning of a New Era in Public Health.”
Molly Bingham from Marriotts Ridge High School was also a winner in the Senior Individual Documentaries category for “William Wilburforce: A Force for Change.”
In the Senior Group Performance category, Zion Hadley and Megha Sharma from Long Reach High School won with “Harriet Tubman.”
The winning Senior Paper was “Eastman Kodak: Establishing the Camera as the American Documenter” by Cecilia Hsu from Centennial High School.
“No Smoke without Fire: How Luther Terry’s Report Revealed the Dangers of Cigarette Smoking to Americans,” by Malena Blakenship, Priya Kanneboyina, and Helen Struble from Lime Kiln Middle School won the Junior Group Documentary category.
Rakshita Balaji of Mayfield Woods Middle School won the Junior Individual Performance category with “The Leadership and Legacy of America’s National Anthem and Flag.”
Alan Gorny and Srinayan Nuvvala of Howard High School won the Milton Zaslow Award in Cryptology for their documentary, “Alan Turing: Codebreaker.”
The Special Prize in Legal and Constitutional History went to “Thurgood Marshall: Leading the Nation to Desegregation,” by Armaan Bhasin and Karan Dalal from Ellicott Mills Middle School.
“R. Adams Cowley: The Golden Hour,” by Jeremy Jablonover of Clarksville Middle School received a Special Prize in Maryland History.
Zion Hadley and Megha Sharma from Long Reach High School were also awarded a Special Prize in Maryland History for “Harriet Tubman.”