National History Day Projects Win at State Level, Move on to Nationals

The state National History Day competition was held on April 6 and both AHS and OMS students have projects that are advancing to national competition. Five Arlington High School projects competed at the state level and two are moving forward. Six out of the 10 Ottoson Middle School projects that competed will be at Nationals. This is the largest group of Arlington Public Schools National History Day projects to have been selected for national competition, which will be held at the University of Maryland from June 9-13, then ever before.

Arlington High School Projects Advancing to Nationals

Category	Award	Project	Students
Group Performance	First Place	Behind the Scenes: Hedy Lamarr and a New Era Of Technology	Anna Vakoc, Chloe Breitling, Papatya Dogulu, and Sophie Rodriguez Mulholland
Individual Performance	Second Place	Charles Fiske’s Journey: A Turning Point in the Organ Transplant System	Spencer Carman

Ottoson Middle School Projects Advancing to Nationals

Category	Award	Project	Students
Paper	First Place	The Significance of the Second Punic War	Ellen Bishop
Group Documentary	First Place	We Will Not Rest in Peace: How ACT UP Changed the AIDS Crisis	Nadia Hackbarth-Davis, Elena Zaganjori, Cora Dutton, and Jiwan Ryu
	Second Place	1949: Germany’s Division and Its Lasting Impacts	Gillan Cox, Yiyan Shen, Evenlyn Wienish, Dyoon Kim, and Nozomi Vega
Group Exhibit	Second Place	The American Plan: The Forgotten Campaign to Punish and Incarcerate Underprivileged Women	Rosalind Richmond, Adel Virag, and Scout Cai
Individual Website	Second Place	Winning at a Price: How the Victory of the Second Sino-Japanese War Cost China Its Opportunity for a Liberal Democracy	Yueshin Yu
Group Website	Second Place	A Cry for Change: How Howl Revolutionized Cultural and Literary Standards	Sonya Shaikh, Adrianna Balderas, and Sara Lay

Three projects received Honorable Mention. They will not be moving on in the competition.

School	Category	Project	Students
Arlington High School	Group Documentary	Every Tiny Thread: The Lowell Mill Girls, a Turning Point in Labor and Feminism	Anna Mulligan and Sofia Prebluda
Ottoson Middle School	Individual Website	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Economic Impacts of the 1929 Stock Market Crash	Logan Patience
	Group Website	The Cold Wars Impact on Nuclear Diplomacy	Finn Byrne, Yuma Atherton, Ariel Berson, Madelyn Hickey, Sabrina Joo Soto

Congratulations to everyone whose projects went from the regional to the state competition, and the Social Studies teachers who advised them: Emily Tessier at AHS, Jason Levy at OMS, and Adam Amster at Gibbs. Good luck to the students whose projects gained the recognition at the state level that enables them to move on to the national competition.