NHD-CA website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nNext month, Orange County\u2019s junior and senior division first-place winners will travel to the University of Maryland, College Park to showcase their historical findings at the National History Day National Contest. Representing nearly one-third of California\u2019s national qualifiers, the Orange County scholars will compete June 14 to June 18 in preliminary and final judging rounds alongside participants from across the country, U.S. territories and international schools around the world.<\/p>\n
Each year, approximately half a million students participate in National History Day at the local, state and national levels, engaging with in-depth historical research and developing projects that connect the past to today\u2019s world and their own lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The following Orange County projects from the elementary, junior and senior divisions were named champions at the state competition:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elementary Champions (Grades 4-5)<\/p>\n
Individual Poster <\/p>\n
\u201cClaus von Stauffenberg: His Failed Revolution, the Brutal Reaction and the Reform of the German Hero\u201d\u00a0
Mateo Sanchez Caero
Olinda Elementary School, Brea-Olinda Unified School District
Coach Jill Berrner<\/p>\n
Group Poster<\/p>\n
\u201cBoston Tea Party\u201d
Neha Ravindran, Arjun Patel, Emma Lebrilla, Charlie Steward, Nathaniel Mao
Olinda Elementary School, Brea-Olinda Unified School District
Coach Jill Berrner<\/p>\n
Individual Podcast<\/p>\n
\u201cRyszard Kuklinski\u201d
Jaden Chi
Olinda Elementary School, Brea-Olinda Unified School District
Coach Jill Berrner<\/p>\n
Junior Champions (Grades 6-8)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Individual Documentary<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Revolution to Reform: Action to Reaction in the Third World Liberation Front\u201d
Joy Yan-Li
Venado Middle School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Hector Gamboa<\/p>\n
Individual Exhibit<\/p>\n
\u201cA Spark and a Slow Burn: The Monongah Mine Disaster\u201d
Hannah Hsiao
Sierra Vista Middle School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Lianne Linck<\/p>\n
\u201cRevolutionary Words: Jovita Idar\u2019s Journalism, Reaction and Struggle for Reform\u201d
Oliver Wiechmann
Sierra Vista Middle School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Lianne Linck<\/p>\n
Group Exhibit<\/p>\n
\u201cWarrior of the Word: Maxine Hong Kingston\u2019s Literary Revolution\u201d (Special award: Asian American and Pacific Islander History Prize)\u00a0
Sophie Bi, Sharon Yitong Qian, Kylee Xiong
Sierra Vista Middle School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Lianne Linck<\/p>\n
Individual Performance<\/p>\n
\u201cThreads of Change: Revolution of the Loom, Reaction of the Workers, Reform in Code\u201d
Aria Yatavelli
Sierra Vista Middle School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Lianne Linck<\/p>\n
Group Performance<\/p>\n
\u201cDigging for Change: The Ludlow Miners and their Revolutionary Fight for Reforms\u201d (Special award: Labor History Prize)
Mia Berryman, Masia Creamer
Sierra Vista Middle School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Lianne Linck<\/p>\n
Group Podcast<\/p>\n
\u201cDrawing the Line: Proposition 13 and the California Property Tax Revolution\u201d
Daniel Lu, Zixin Zhao
Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Aghassi Gharadaghian<\/p>\n
Senior Champions (Grades 9-12)<\/p>\n
Individual Documentary<\/p>\n
\u201cEducation Liberation: How the Black Panther Party\u2019s Oakland Community School Revolutionized Education for Marginalized Students\u201d (Special award: Bushong Award for Social Justice Legacy and the California Historic Places Award)\u00a0
Nicholas Soo
Irvine High School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Jennifer Harrington<\/p>\n
Individual Exhibit<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Day Iceland Stood Still: From National Reaction to Global Revolution and Reform\u201d
Yesha Gupta
Northwood High School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Deanna Myers<\/p>\n
Individual Performance<\/p>\n
\u201cHas New York Many Walking Pesthouses? Revolution, Reaction, and Reform Through the Story of Typhoid Mary\u201d
Kylee West
Orange County School of the Arts
Coach Nancy Alcala<\/p>\n
Group Podcast<\/p>\n
\u201cContamination to Regulation: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in the American Meatpacking Industry\u201d
Sarie Kwak, Moksha Kolli
Northwood High School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Deanna Myers<\/p>\n
Group Website<\/p>\n
\u201cA Beep in the Sky, A Revolution Below: The Sputnik Crisis and the Reformation of American
Education\u201d
Annie Kwak, Carson Lv, Aadhi Suresh
Northwood High School, Irvine Unified School District
Coach Deanna Myers<\/p>\n
Learn more about National History Day \u2013 Orange County by visiting OCDE\u2019s NHD-OC webpage<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick look: Twenty-one young local historians are headed to nationals next month after a standout performance at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-328454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Orange County School of the Arts student finalists receive their ribbons at the National History Day \u2013 CA competition May 3. <\/p>\n