On April 28, 17 Greenwich High School (GHS) students competed at the state level National History Day (NHD) contest after qualifying in the regional competition last month. 10 GHS Innovation Lab (InLab) students have now qualified to participate in the national competition at the University of Maryland in June. In addition, InLab teachers, as a team, have been selected as the Connecticut nominee(s) for the NHD Harris History Teacher of the Year Award.
GHS students heading to the Maryland NHD competition in June include:
First Place in Senior Group Performance:
Katherine Hurst, Flora Dievenich Braes, Nicole Wood, and Sofia Dodaro, will return to nationals for an unprecedented third year, this time, to showcase their performance on “Barbara McClintock: Jumping Over Conflict and Creating Compromise to Expand the Knowledge of the Genome.”
Second Place in Senior Group Performance:
Jody Bell, Sophie Anderlind, and Nina Hirai
“Society’s Compromise is a Whole New Crime: The Rape of Recy Taylor.”
First Place in Senior Group Exhibit:
Sydney Harris and Sophia Fernandez
“Greenwich Women Face the Great War.”
Second Place in Senior Individual Performance:
Emma Olmsted
“The Pentagon Papers: An Inner Conflict, An External Compromise in American Values.”
Three additional GHS teams qualified in the regionals and competed at the State level:
We The People students, Bennett Hawley, Jacqueline Cochran, Renata Malyshev, and Gabriel Quiroga presented their interactive exhibit: “The Weight of History: A Systematic Approach to Analyzing Public Opinion of Historical Figures.”
InLab 10th grader, Liam Brinton shared his original documentary: “The Space Race: How Conflict on Earth Composed the Dominion of SPACE.”
InLab 10th graders, Ariana Ceppi and Gracie McCooe, performed an original play titled, “The Questions We Didn’t Ask, The Stories They Didn’t Tell: How Equality and Identity Were Compromised Under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’”
The 2018 National Contest will be held June 10 to 14 at the University of Maryland, College Park.
