Lake Washington School District students advance to state level of National History Day competition

Many students from the Lake Washington School District's (LWSD) International Community School (ICS), Redmond Junior High (RJH), Rose Hill Junior High (RHJH) and Redmond High School (RHS) will move on to the state championship of National History Day at Bellevue College on May 1.

March 25, 2010 4:21 pm

Students from the Lake Washington School District’s (LWSD) International Community School (ICS), Redmond Junior High (RJH), Rose Hill Junior High (RHJH) and Redmond High School (RHS) participated in the regional National History Day competition March 19 in Shoreline. The following teams and individuals will move on to compete in the state championship at Bellevue College on May 1.

Senior Group Web site:

• First place: Alice Chang, Olivia Kao and Jamie Azimova (ICS) – “Coco Mademoiselle: Ripping the Seams within Fashion, Society and History”

• Third place: Jessica Jin and Anastasiya Kirichuk (ICS) – “The Defibrillator: Revolutionizing the Pulse of Medical Innovation One Beat at a Time”

Senior Group Documentary Film:

• First place: Anand Raghuraman, Tian Kisch and Raluca Ifrim (RHS) – “The Transcontinental Railroad: Changing the Face of the West.” They also won a special award for Best Use of Primary Sources.

• Second place: Tara Balakrishnan, Maya Balakrishnan, Sarah Du and Edward Zhang (RHS) – “Our Land: Preserving the American Wilderness”

Senior Group Performance:

• First place: Abby Burlinghame and Ceri Riley (ICS) – “H-4: John Harrison’s Steadfast Determination to Conquer Space with Time”

• Third place: Elliot Wyse, Johnson Hsieh, Joe Mercer and Jeff McNerney (RHS) – “The Atomic Bomb: Third Time’s the Charm”

Senior Individual Documentary Film:

• First Place: Nathan Maris (ICS) – “Blood Plasma: Dr. Charles Drew’s Innovation and its Impact”

Junior Historical Paper:

• Second place: Jonathan Qu (RJH) – “The Dawn of Modern Medicine: The Germ Theory of Disease”

Junior Individual Website:

• Sixth place: Margaret Robinson (RJH) – “Penicillin: Saved Lives, Revolutionized Medicine” – http://40541493.nhd.weebly.com.

Junior Individual Documentary:

• First place: Samhita Karnati (RJH) – “Satyagraha: Seeking Truth to Alter the World”

• First place: Ashley Yoo (ICS) – “The Sony Walkman: The innovative audio player that forever changed pop culture”

• Second place: Josef Benzaoui (ICS) – “The Douglas DC-3: Innovation in Aviation”

Junior Individual Exhibit:

• Second place: Meghana Noonavath (RJH) – “The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the U.S.: Foundations of Equality” – Award: Best Use of Primary Sources

Junior Group Exhibit:

• First place: Karen Ai and Elaine Wang (RJH) – “Confucianism: Building Social Norms and Stability”

Junior Individual Performance:

• First place: Alyssa Foster (RJH) – “The Ancient Dr. Seuss: Shakespeare’s Influence on the English Language”

• Second place: Devon Bortfield (ICS) – “OKLAHOMA!: Impacting the Standards of Broadway Musicals”

Junior Group Performance:

• First place: Rachel Roberts and Aishwarya Nirmal (ICS) – “The 1949 Geneva Conventions: An Innovation in Humanity”

• Second place: Anton DeLeon, Zack Packer, Hannah Parish, and Nikki Sharma (RJH) – “Magna Carta: Charter for Change”

Junior Group Documentary Film:

• First place: Sophia Urrutia and Kathleen Park (ICS) – “X-Rays: Changing Our Understanding of the Human Body and Beyond”

• Second place: Brandon McNerney, Dylan Steele and Anwell Wang (ICS) – “Changing the Way We Fly: The Boeing 707”

• Fourth place: Ana Calinov and Axel Hauduc (ICS) – “From Novelty to Commodity: Les Paul’s Innovative Guitar”

• Andrew Li (RJH) won an award for Best Use of Primary Sources on his Junior Individual Documentary titled “Marxism: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.”