{"id":246119,"date":"2026-05-28T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:17:08","slug":"26-long-island-students-win-big-at-new-york-state-history-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246119\/","title":{"rendered":"26 Long Island students win big at New York State History Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-six Long Island students have been named first-place individual winners and group winners in a state contest that challenged students to conduct historical research. <\/p>\n

The winning projects were among hundreds of submissions in this year\u2019s New York State History Day competition held last month at SUNY Oneonta. The research focused on a theme of \u201cRevolution, Reaction, Reform in History\u201d and was conducted by individuals or groups in five categories: documentary, exhibit, paper, performance and website. <\/p>\n

Each category\u2019s first- and second-place winners are eligible for a national competition in Maryland June 14-18. To reach the state level, the students first competed in the Long Island History Day contest, which featured more than 330 projects at Hofstra University in Hempstead in March. <\/p>\n

\u201cMore Long Island projects move on from the state contest to the national level than any other New York region, highlighting the value our teachers place on historical research,\u201d said Allison Sobel, regional coordinator for Long Island History Day. <\/p>\n

Long Island\u2019s first-place winners and their schools: Isabella Deutsch, Tamar Oppenheimer, Leanne Peretz and Lilly Rattner, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach; Nikhil Aggarwal, Kunal Bhardwaj, Callista Domingo, Ryan Khokon, Rehan Malhi, Rhea Mandal, Soor Patel, Krish Shashidharan, Harvir Singh and Karan Singh, Herricks High School; Abigail Mannino, Lianna Mathew and Liliana Paciaroni, Herricks Middle School; Nataly Posada, Huntington High School; Emily Chiu, Alina Qi, Katherine Weng and Ina Woo, Jericho Middle School; Matthew Marulli, North Shore Middle School in Glen Head; Azra Ali and Katie Tao, Syosset High School; and Darius Ilkhani, Wheatley School in Old Westbury. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s projects tackled topics ranging from how the subway revolutionized New York to how domestic and international reactions shaped the Islamic Republic of Iran. <\/p>\n

Poster contest <\/p>\n

Adelaide Janiak, an eighth-grader at Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School in Port Washington, has been named the winner of the \u201cWater Connects Us All\u201d poster contest<\/a> coordinated by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the nonprofit New York Water Environment Association. <\/p>\n

The contest, which received more than 700 submissions statewide, challenged students to convey the contest\u2019s theme and how they \u201ccan be an inspiration for positive environmental action,\u201d according to the DEC. <\/p>\n

Adelaide\u2019s poster and 13 other top submissions will be featured in a 2027 calendar. <\/p>\n

New BOCES principal <\/p>\n

Matthew Zegers has been appointed principal of Nassau BOCES Center for Community Adjustment, which focuses on students who are \u201cemotionally, behaviorally or developmentally challenged,\u201d the agency said. <\/p>\n

Zegers, who replaced Jeannine Stutz, was previously principal of Nassau BOCES Rosemary Kennedy School in Wantagh, where he spent more than 10 years. He has also worked for the state Education Department\u2019s Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Center. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an absolute pleasure to work in this agency,\u201d Zegers said in a statement. \u201cOur teachers are incredibly passionate about meeting their students\u2019 needs and building their strengths.\u201d <\/p>\n

Impactful teachers <\/p>\n

Judith LeMire of Longwood High School in Middle Island, Priscilla Olberding of West Middle School in Bay Shore and Graham Otton of New Hyde Park Memorial High School have been named winners of this year\u2019s \u201cAbove and \u2018BEE\u2019yond\u201d contest coordinated by Applebee\u2019s. <\/p>\n

They were selected through nominations from students who feel they made \u201ca lasting impact on their academic journey,\u201d according to Applebee\u2019s. The winners will receive $500 to improve their classrooms and an end-of-year class party at their local Applebee\u2019s. <\/p>\n

\u201cTheir passion and commitment are evident in the powerful stories shared by their students,\u201d said Brian McDonnell, Long Island\u2019s director of operations for Doherty Enterprises, an Applebee\u2019s franchise operator.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael R. Ebert is an education researcher and has worked for Newsday in various capacities since 2003. He was part of an 11-person team named as 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative coverage of the LIRR’s platform safety issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-six Long Island students have been named first-place individual winners and group winners in a state contest that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,42495,9,11,10,49,51,50,38754],"class_list":["post-246119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-education","tag-lilife","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-togetherli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}