National History Day
Congratulations to all of the members of Masterman's National History Day team, and thanks to Ms. Taylor for facilitating another successful year! All students competed beautifully on Thursday, March 16.
The following students won awards at the contest:
Historical Papers
Honorable Mention: Elina Chen, "From Slavery to Colonies: Paul Cuffe and African American Colonization of Sierra Leone"
Third place: Ciaran Yudiono, "Frontiersmen of the American West: The Untold Story of Black Cowboys"
Second place: Tori Okorodudu, "Race Films and the Reclamation of Identity"
First place: Zephyra DeVine, "In Search of The Promised Land: The Frontiers Of Revivalist Christianity And The Black Church"
Group Performance
First Place: Cyrus Fisher and Jason Zhang, "'The Category is… Frontiers': How the Harlem Ball Scene Redefined Queer Black Power"
Individual Exhibit
Second place: Laura Dragomir, "A Voice That Reached A Nation: How Marian Anderson's Lincoln Memorial Performance Expanded Frontiers in the Civil Rights Movement."
First place: Jessica Zheng, "When Legacies Are Questioned: James Marion Sims, the 'Father of Gynecology'"
Individual Website
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Sevrukov, Rediscovering Ann Lowe: "Society's Best Kept Secret"
Third place: Catherine Jonathan, "Loving Is Colorblind: Loving v. Virginia and the Frontier for Interracial Marriage through Legal Change"
Second place: Aiden Rubin Sanxhaku, “'Emerging from the Event Horizon and Beaming for the Future': How a Student Organization Paved the Way for African-American in Physics"
First place: Mustafa Elabd, "Liberia: An Asylum from the Most Grinding Oppression”
Group Website
First Place: Nathanael Kassahun, Daniella Liang, Hannah Paez, Margareth Tanusaputra, "The Students Who Integrated Public Schools: How the Little Rock Nine Pushed the Frontier of Desegregation"
Individual Documentaries
Honorable Mention: Jocelyn Goldstein, “'Imitated But Never Equalled': How the Harlem Globetrotters Opened Basketball’s Modern Frontier"
Third place: Mariacristina Calcagno, "Balanchine and Mitchell: An Unprecedented Collaboration Dancing toward Diversity in Ballet"
Second place: Sarah Zdancewic, "Beam Me Up to Equality: How Nichelle Nichols Shaped 'The Final Frontier'"
First place: Ray Eggerts, "All Aboard: The Pullman Porters' Fight for Unity"
Group Documentary
Second place: Rory Gonzales and Ana Sorrentino, “'The Youth We are Feeding Will Surely Feed the Revolution'”: The Black Panther Party and the Frontier of Free Breakfast"
First place: Quentin Charriez, Kaddy Ren, and Valeria Schuster, "Profits Over People: Redlining and the Residential Displacement of Minority Communities in Philadelphia"
Great job everyone! History on three....one, two, three: HISTORY!
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