Thirty-four Shaker students are State Finalists for the Ohio History Day competition to be held at Ohio Wesleyan University on April 25.
Overall, 37 Shaker students were recognized at the recent regional competition at Case Western Reserve University. In the Senior Division, Shaker Heights High School students swept the categories of Group Performance, Group Documentary, and Individual Websites.
Shaker’s full results are as follows:
JUNIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY (6-8TH GRADERS)
Madeline Price - Second Place for “The Impact of Children’s Television: The Leadership and Legacy of Joan Ganz Cooney” (with Kaisal Shah from Hathaway Brown School)
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBIT
Ryan Wheeler - Second Place for “John D. Rockefeller: Leadership and Legacy in Standard Oil (also received the Early Settlers of the Western Reserve Association Award)
SENIOR GROUP EXHIBIT
Watson Moore, Sam Katz, Brian Johnson - Third Place for “Them Damned Pictures: The Legendary Cartoons of Thomas Nast”
Katie Muller-Girard, Kristi Seman & Norah Clark - First Place for “Revolutionizing Reproduction: The Pill That Changed Women’s Lives”
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY
Andrew Roth - Second Place for “Artists of Deception: The Ghost Army” (also recognized by The Cleveland Greys for Military History)
Nora Spadoni - First Place for “Ms., Not Mrs.: Gloria Steinem and the Founding of a Groundbreaking Magazine”
SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY
Ari Weiss, Wyatt Eisen - Third Place for “Satchel, Larry and Bill: Overcoming Odds for Successful Integration in Baseball” (also received the Early Settlers of the Western Reserve Association Award, Teaching in Cleveland Award, and the Maltz Museum Award)
Ryan Duffett, Franklin Potiker, Jacob Maury - Second Place for “City Beautiful: Daniel Burnham’s Influence on the Modern American City” (also received the Early Settlers of the Western Reserve Association Award)
Zach Brown, Nat Crowley, Will Raddock, Mathieu Girard - First Place for “Poverty to Power: The Leadership and Legacy of Carl B. Stokes” (also received the Early Settlers of the Western Reserve Association Award)
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE
Nadia DeGeorgia - Third Place for “Signs of the Times: Manualism Versus Oralism in Deaf Education”
Joe Berusch - Second Place for “Why We Live Apart: Institutionalized Segregation in the 20th Century”
Jeremy Gimbel - First Place for “Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld: ‘A Man Obsessed with Peace’”
SENIOR GROUP WEBSITES
Karissa Huang, Maria Suresh - Second Place for “James Dewey Watson: A New Twist on Life”
Brendan Frothingham, Jack Sullivan, Zach Wheeler for “The Building Blocks of a Community: Leadership and Legacy of the Van Sweringen Brothers” (received the Early Settlers of the Western Reserve Association Award)
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE
Darby Grant - Second Place for “Kelloggs, the Legacy in Everyone’s Pantry”
Rose McCandless - First Place for “Southern Lady, Seductress, Spy: The Leadership and Legacy of Belle Boyd” (also recognized by The Cleveland Greys for Military History)
SENIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE
Tyler Smith, Rachel Brunot, Abby Kagan - Third Place for “The Right to One’s Own Body: Margaret Sanger and the Rise of the Birth Control Movement”
Christine Chapman-Sung, Sophia Matts, Isabel Wang - Second Place for “We Will Fight Until We Win: The Lowell Textile Girls’ Fight for Labor Reform”
Isabella Ilijasic, Olivia Rodriguez - First Place for “Caresse Crosby: Feminist Icon and Inventor of the Modern Bra”
The students’ teachers are Sarah Davis, Darlene Garrison, Roy Isaacs, Val Libman, Tim Mitchell, and Heather Pincoe.
National History Day was created in 1974 by David Van Tassel, a professor at Case Western Reserve University. Initially intended as a local competition, it grew to become a national program with about 700,000 participants each year.
Participating students were required to do extensive research and preparation, develop an original thesis and demonstrate their knowledge and conclusions about this year’s theme, “Leadership and Legacy in History.” Their projects vary in format, ranging from formal term papers and exhibits to dramatic performances and documentary videos. Students may work in groups or create individual projects.