Ten Carson High School sophomores took home first place awards Saturday at the regional competition for National History Day at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Of the 15 entries from Nicole Fagundes’ Honors World History class, 12 received honors, including six first place entries that advance to the national competition at the University of Maryland at College Park in June.
The Carson City Library partnered with the class, playing an integral role as a center for knowledge and discovery assisting the students in conducting primary research on an historic topic. This year’s theme for National History Day is “Rights and Responsibilities in History."
The Carson High School winners are:
- First place - Senior Group Documentary - Eric Hines, Austin Lowe, Athena Favero - Manzanar
- First place - Senior Individual Documentary - Emily Chandler - Maximilien de Robespierre: Guardian of the People’s Rights
- First place - Senior Individual Exhibit - Madeline Carine - The Rights and Responsibilities of JFK During the Cuban Missile Crisis
- First place - Senior Group Exhibit - Caroline Gabica, Katie Matuska, Allison Kibbe - Egyptology
- First place - Senior Individual Website - Ikela Lewis - Stand Up for Your Rights! The Responsibilities of a Revolutionary
- First place - Senior Historical Paper - Ashley Meyer - Responsibilities of the Capitalist Governments in the Korean War: Fighting for Freedom
-Second place - Senior Group Documentary - Gabrielle Palazzolo, Thomas Gall, Kayla Payette - Tiananmen Square: Forgotten but not Unforgettable
-Second place - Senior Individual Website - Zach Simms - Executive Order 9066: A Violation of American Citizens’ Constitutional Rights
-Second place - Senior Group Exhibit - Alex Alonso, Kendall Baker - Rights and Responsibilities of the Samurai During the Meiji Restoration
-Second place - Senior Individual Exhibit - Jenna Wong-Fortunato - Atomic Bomb: For Better or Worse
-Honorable Mention - Senior Individual Performance - Jacob Drahos - The My Lai Massacre: The American Soldiers Rights and Responsibilities
-Honorable Mention - Senior Historical Paper - Quinn Peterson - Iran-Iraq War: The Rights and Responsibilities of the United States Government to Intervene
A meaningful community partnership unanimously adopted last fall between Carson City Supervisors, the Carson City School District, and Carson City Library Trustees empowered the Carson City Library to be an essential community resource providing reliable Internet connections as well as state of the art computers.
This act ignited the Carson City Library as an available and valuable resource for the students to access tools when needed: during school hours, after-school hours, and weekends; in addition to being the gateway to essential online resources.
This partnership is preparing Carson High students for a future in a digital age-while learning history in a meaningful way- and transforming learning opportunities.
This collaboration has provided an environment that has individualized student learning and enhanced students’ college and career readiness. The skills they are learning will last a lifetime.
Professional educators and historians have already judged the students’ efforts as successes on a local level. National History Day is a highly regarded academic program for high school students. Students choose historical topics related to a theme and conduct extensive primary and secondary research through libraries, archives, museums, oral history interviews and historic sites.
After analyzing and interpreting their sources and drawing conclusions about their topics’ significance in history, students present their work in original papers, websites, exhibits, performances and documentaries. The program advances from a local competition to regional and culminates in the Kenneth E. Behring National Contest in June.
This is the second year that Fagundes’ class has competed in National History Day and four students made nationals last year. Fagundes says while the state will pay the student’s entry fees, they will begin fundraising immediately to cover the rest of their travel expenses.
Your Knowledge and Discovery Place, the Carson City Library is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The library is located at the corner of Roop and Washington Streets. For more information call 887-2244 or checkout our website at www.carsoncitylibrary.org.