Seventeen F-M High School students recently entered 13 projects in the CNY History Day Competition held at OCM BOCES in Liverpool. Eleven students who earned first or second place are advancing eight projects to the New York state History Day Competition at SUNY Oneonta on Sunday, April 26.
The student-driven competitions are part of National History Day, a nonprofit educational organization that aims to improve the teaching and learning of history. The organization challenges students to choose a topic and dive deeply into the past by conducting extensive research in libraries, archives, and museums. The students present their conclusions and evidence through papers, exhibits, performances, documentaries, or websites, moving through a series of contest levels where they are evaluated by professional historians and educators.
CNY History Day Competition Results
Paper
First place: Trevor Gates, “The Riot That Divided New York City and The United States: How the Reactions to the ‘Hard Hat Riot’ and Other Events on the Homefront Impacted American Politics” (State Qualifier)
*Trevor also won a Certificate of Recognition from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Individual Exhibit
First place: Mari McGinnis, “The United States Role in the Fall of the Berlin Wall” (State Qualifier)
Second place: Mia Ziparo, “Beyond the Belt: Exploring Henry Ford’s Labor Reforms in the Wake of the Assembly Line” (State Qualifier)
Third place: Evie Fumarola, “Strike! A Story of the Triumph of Small Voices” (State Alternate)
Group Exhibit
First place: Maxwell Reyna and Aadesh Roopnarine-Clarke, “Grief to Governance” (State Qualifier)
Group Documentary
First place: Nethra Balasubramanian and Meenakshi Thangadurai, “From Haymarket to History: The May Day Revolution that Reshaped Labor Rights” (State Qualifier)
Second place: Noah Massey and Lucas Price, “Legends Never Die: The Wilmeth Sidat-Singh Story” (State Qualifier)
Third place: Eliot ElBayadi and Elliott Olech, “Green Movement and Big Oil” (State Alternate)
Solo Documentary
First place: Keya Choudhary, “Elixir Sulfanilamide Disaster: The Disaster That Shaped How Drugs are Distributed Today” (State Qualifier)
Second place: August Garcia Mueller, “Tully Valley Landback: Reforming How We Think of Environmentalism and Our Own Relationships with the Land” (State Qualifier)
