(March 28, 2022) – Alamance Community College hosted the Central Piedmont Regional National History Day Competition on March 25 in a virtual format for middle school and high school students in this region of North Carolina. Participants included 108 students, 71 projects, 23 teams and 32 judges from a 20-county surrounding radius.
Winners from the central piedmont region automatically go on to the state competition and possibly continue to the national contest.
“This year’s projects were impressive and we had fantastic entries in papers, performances, websites, exhibits and documentaries,” said Sherri Singer, ACC faculty member who served as competition coordinator. “Just imagining we have middle school students who are producing college-level websites and movie documentaries is amazing. Our judges were incredibly impressed with their level of work.”
Central Piedmont Region winners are:
Junior Group Documentary
1st: Margaret Kozlowski & Jocelyn Snyder & Emma Hughes, St. Michael the Archangel (Apex, NC) for The 1973 ERA Debate: Schlafly vs. Friedan and How It Changed Women’s Rights Forever
2nd: Julian Saldanha & Brooks Zygmond & Brian Hepp, St. Michael the Archangel (Cary, NC) for Clearing the Fog: The United States Debate on Signing the Geneva Protocol Banning Chemical Weapons
3rd: Suh Hee Shin & Hannah Oh, Davis Drive Middle (Cary, NC) for A Diplomatic: China and Britain
Senior Group Documentary
1st: Roshan Sundaram & Anika Suman, Early College at Guilford (Greensboro, NC) for The Nonchalant Negotiations of Nixon
2nd: Brian Zhang & Syed Shah & Abhinav Gurram & Benjamin Lu & James Xiao, Green Hope High (Chapel Hill, NC) for America’s Diplomatic Intervention in the Bosnian War
3rd: Madeleine Sparrow & Dasha Sudhir & Flora Ulrich, Woods Charter (Pittsboro, NC) for Reagan and Gorbachev: The End of the Cold War
Junior Group Exhibit
1st: Ellie Allen & Julianna Baronian, St. Michael the Archangel (Apex, NC) for Tikkun Olam: “Heal the World” The Polio Vaccine Debate
2nd: Reagan Arp & Lexie von Koch & Joelle Lanuti, Pine Springs Preparatory Academy (Holly Springs, NC) for Women’s Suffrage: “If you can’t trust us to vote, how can you trust us with a child?”
3rd: Brady Hohenstein & Lucas Robertson & Tyler Comstock, Pine Springs Preparatory Academy (Holly Springs, NC) for The Space Race
3rd: Andrew Earl & Dominic Paone, Pine Springs Preparatory Academy (Holly Springs, NC) for Atomic Bomb
3rd: Ashley Smith & Lanae Tauscher & Ava Bunker, Pine Springs Preparatory Academy (Holly Springs, NC) for Women’s Suffrage
Senior Group Exhibit
1st: Austin Varghese & Ajay Dakoriya, Early College at Guilford (Greensboro, NC) for The Enfeebled Compromise: How the Debates of the Missouri Compromise Forged Civil War
2nd: Wren Peterman & Laura Schirmer, Woods Charter (Pittsboro, NC) for The Backlash of the Tuskegee Study: A Debate Revolved Around Ethics
3rd: Andrew Nguyen & Caleb Jordan & Spriha Manjigani, NC School of Science and Mathematics (Charlotte, NC) for Debate & Diplomacy in the South China Sea
3rd: Justice Jones & Amonte Hawley, Vance Virtual Village Academy (Henderson, NC) for Jesse Owens: Traitor or Trailblazer
Junior Group Performance
1st: Elizabeth Milazzo & Julia Biersack & Nina Warren, St. Michael the Archangel (Morrisville, NC) for US v. Miller (1939): Challenging the Right to Bear Arms
2nd: Isabella Penabad & Marguerite Twomey, St. Michael the Archangel (Cary, NC) for Early Suffrage: Lucy Stone vs. Josephine Jewell Dodge
Senior Group Website
1st: Vina Senthil & Arya Revankar, Early College at Guilford (Greensboro, NC) for Contraceptive Diplomacy as a Doulbe-Edge Sword: Margaret Sanger and Ishimoto Shizue’s Shaky Cries for Reproductive Liberation
2nd: Jenna Apolito & Chloe Richard, Woods Charter (Chapel Hill, NC) for Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Junior Individual Documentary
1st: Yara Kozhaya, St. Michael the Archangel (Morrisville, NC) for The Lincoln/Douglas Debates: Sovereignty vs. Slavery
2nd: Carter Gresko, Pine Springs Preparatory Academy (Cary, NC) for The Annexation of Hawaii
Junior Individual Exhibit
1st: Matthew Davis, St. Michael the Archangel (Cary, NC) for Crisis in Congress: Debate Over the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Expansion of American Involvement in Vietnam
2nd: Lucas Rogers, Zebulon Middle (Wendell, NC) for The Cuban Missile Crisis
3rd: Lara Stark, Zebulon Middle (Zebulon, NC) for The Treaty of Versailles
Senior Individual Exhibit
1st: Emma Esposito, Cary Academy (Raleigh, NC) for Beyond Backing the Attack: WAC Participation in WWII
2nd: Bella Nesbeth, Cary Academy (Morrisville, NC) for Une Lutte Pour Le Pouvoir (A Power Struggle): England’s Rejection From the European Economic Community
3rd: Katie Valentine, Woods Charter (Chapel Hill, NC) for The Fight for Animal Rights
3rd: Luke Bradsher, Oak Tree Academy (Roxboro, NC) for Seward’s Folly: The Successes, Failures and Consequences of the Alaska Purchase
3rd: Jenna Pullen, Cary Academy (Cary, NC) for Diplomacy in Athens in the 5th Century BC
Senior Individual Performance
1st: Maggie Trapp, SandHoke Early College High (Raeford, NC) for Queen Victoria Versus Sir John Conroy: The Kensington System
Junior Individual Website
1st: Nikhil Peddibhotla, Mills Park Middle (Cary, NC) for Vaccine War: Debate and Diplomacy
Senior Individual Website
1st: Felicia Yan, Enloe High (Cary, NC) for Si, Se Puede! The Debate and Diplomacy of Dolores Huerta in the California Farmworkers Movement
2nd: Claire Ledford, Creekwood Academy (Sanford, NC) for Governor Thomas Bickett’s Diplomacy During Ashe County Case
3rd: Joseph Lapp, Woods Charter (Chapel Hill, NC) for Controversy Surrounding the Space Race
Senior Paper
1st: Andi Bradsher, Oak Tree Academy (Roxboro, NC) for “Give Me Liberty”: How Patrick Henry’s Debates and Diplomacy Sparked a Lasting Fight for Freedom
2nd: ShaoYuan Su, Cary Academy (Cary, NC) for Is the Pen Really Mightier Than the Sword? Naval Influences on 19th Century American Diplomacy
3rd: Roma Desai, Early College at Guilford (Greensboro, NC) for Vaccine Controversy – Will It Ever End? The Effect of Pop Culture and Press on Influencing Public Opinion for the Greater Good
3rd: Dishita Agarwai, Early College at Guilford (Greensboro, NC) for The Environmental Justice Movement in America: A North Carolina Protest That Sparked National Debate