2025 History Day Awards

Eastvale, CAOn Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, the energy was high at Eleanor Roosevelt High School as CNUSD hosted its annual History Day Awards. Students from across the district showcased diverse projects that delved into significant events and moments in history. Dedicated judges examined each entry closely, evaluating both depth of research and creativity. Congratulations to all the students who took part—your efforts truly made history come alive!

History Day Winners

Elementary

Individual Podcast:

  1. Aashni Elayaraja (Clara Barton) - 1963 Birmingham Children’s Crusade: The Youth Take Action
  2. Natalya Benor (Clara Barton) - Mother Jones and the Children's Crusade
  3. Alexandra Gendreau (Garretson) - The Man in the Red Bandana

Group Poster:

  1. Alice Li, Aswitha Appiya Mathanlal (Clara Barton) - U.S. Rights and Responsibilities in the Vietnam War
  2. Hangyeol Kim, Jash Davey, Nicholas Sotelo (Clara Barton) - Mahatma Gandhi and India’s Fight for Independence
  3. Lucia Jaimes, Samantha Houy (Temescal Valley) - The Philippine Revolution

Individual Poster:

  1. Alisa Yi (Temescal Valley) - Navajo Code Talkers
  2. Kristin Choi (Temescal Valley) - The Lego Cloning : Success or Failure?
  3. Navnidh Narra (Clara Barton) - Industrial Revolution in America


Junior

Group Documentary:

  1. Angela Ananthanathan, Ronov Ranjith (Corona Fundamental) - Environmental Rights: Rachel Carson's Impact on Our World
  2. Campbell Fenn, Chloe Er (El Cerrito) - Rejected Rights, Refused Responsibilities: The Story of Japanese American Internment Camps
  3. Charvi Elayaraja, Jonica Rajasekar (Dr. Augustine Ramirez) - A Small Hand, A Big Impact: The March of the Mill Children

Group Exhibit:

  1. Aarush Nathan, Kartavya  Shah, Michael Lim (Lincoln Alternative) - Ending Child Labor: The Legacy Of FLSA
  2. Cailyn Ha, Sarah Chou (Dr. Augustine Ramirez) -The Ford Pinto Controversy: Balancing Consumer Rights and Corporate Responsibilities
  3. Ellie Tran, Emma Fong (El Cerrito) - Comfort Women Rights  Responsibilities

Group Performance:

  1. Anchali Srirajan, Ayaan Ali (Lincoln Alternative) - Breaking the Chain of Child Labor: The Keating Owen Act
  2. Belagia Faltas, Kendall Owen, Rohit Satheeshkumar, Roshhan Satheeshkumar (El Cerrito) - Disability Rights Movement
  3. Brandon Rivas, Lauren Rivas, Sadie Rotz, Mila Matusevich - The Bold Suffragette: The WSPU's Use of Jiu-Jitsu to Hold Parliament Responsible for Giving Them Their Rights

Group Podcast:

  1. Alexia Santamaria, Bianca Perez, Coraline Mcclintock (Harada) - History on MLK podcast
  2. Daniel Shin, Charlotte Timmons (Clara Barton) - History of Children's Rights
  3. Maxaurelius Peng (Clara Barton) - Sea Lantern Podcast NHD

Group Website:

  1. Analise Persek, Vivian Lee (El Cerrito) - The Columbine Shootings: The Rights and Responsibilities of Students
  2. Chizaram Otti, Sinachi Otti (Lincoln Alternative) - SOUND THE ALERT! : How Amber Hagerman's Death Protected the Rights and Urged the Responsibilities of Hundreds
  3. Mariam Mikhaeil, Sasha Rana, Verena Ebed (Lincoln Alternative) - Rights and Responsibilities: Unlocking Potential: How IDEA is Transforming Education for All!

Individual Documentary:

  1. Diya Vora (Corona Fundamental) - Advance Directives: Your Life, Your Choice
  2. Kathryn Huang (River Heights) - Prohibition: How Banning "Demon Drink" Led to a Decade of Hell
  3. Shruthi Reddivari (Lincoln Alternative) - The Power of Common Sense

Individual Exhibit:

  1. Keagan Doyle (El Cerrito) - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech
  2. Tyson Dylan Deal (Garretson) - Nuremberg Trails Rights and Responsibilities for Humanity
  3. Victoria Jensen (Garretson) - Prohibition

Individual Performance:

  1. Akshita Saravana (Corona Fundamental) - Sati: A Widow's Right to Live, Society's Responsibility to Protect
  2. Bridget Caverly (El Cerrito) - "Kill the Indian in Him, and Save the Man:" When the Misguided Responsibility to Assimilate Collides with the Right to Humanity: The Tragic Legacy of Native American Boarding Schools.
  3. Dina Bakir (Corona Fundamental) - Filling Empty Spaces: American Women's Role in World War II

Individual Website:

  1. Arvind Ramakrishnan (Letha Raney) - Japanese Americans: Rights and Responsibilities Amidst the Pearl Harbor Attack
  2. Juliet Aung (El Cerrito) - From Headlines to Hysteria: How Yellow Journalism Encapsulated the Importance of Freedom of Press and Journalistic Duty
  3. Nina Rocco (El Cerrito) - Brown vs. Board of Education


Senior

Group Documentary:

  1. Courtney Cieslik, Sadie Ringrose (Norco High) - WASP: An Unknown Legacy
  2. Krisha Patel, Makenna Melendez (Norco High) - Ni Una Menos
  3. Phoebe Heng, Saanvi Nukala (Roosevelt High) - From Rot to Real: How the FDA Protected Consumer Rights While Regulating Industry Responsibilities

Group Exhibit:

  1. Aashritha Sayyaparaju, Jacqueline Vo, Mahima Mangamuri (Roosevelt High) - Right to Care: The History of the Pap Smear and How it Revolutionized Women's Healthcare
  2. Callie Wu, Vicky Lee (Roosevelt High) - Votes, Voices, Victory Alice Paul: Women’s Rights Movement Leader
  3. Michelle McEnery, Payton Brumbaugh (Norco High) - Radium Girls: They died for your rights.

Group Performance:

  1. Elya Hussain, Maryam Rizvi, Shruthi Gouni (Roosevelt High) - Innocence on the Assembly Line: Responsibility Ignored, Rights Denied

Group Podcast:

  1. Brayden Goytia, Caitlin Buensuceso (Centennial High) - Defining Disability: The Legacy of Sterilization and Disability Rights in the United States
  2. Jasmine Nguyen, Liliana Ruvira, Vaishnavi Varadharaja Prabhu (Roosevelt High) - Princess Diana: Redefining the Rules and Responsibilities of the Crown

Group Website:

  1. Aneri Patel, Asma Parekh, Olivia Chiang (Centennial High) - From Wonder Drug to Transcendental Tragedy: Thalidomide, the Legacy of Patient Rights and Pharmaceutical Responsibility
  2. Matthew Zhao, Tanush Komatineni (Roosevelt) - The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Rights Ignored and Responsibilities Abused
  3. Rudri Soni, Saijal Patel, Shravya Reddivari (Centennial High) - Behind Bars: Rights Denied, Responsibilities Ignored – The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising

Individual Documentary:

  1. Sai Srinika Bommineni (Roosevelt High) - Good Clinical Practice: Safeguarding Rights and Ensuring Integrity
  2. Tarini Siram (Roosevelt High) - Elizabeth Blackwell and Degrees of Equality: Women in Medicine

Individual Exhibit:

  1. Emily Shin (Centennial High) - Korean-Americans’ Right for Self-Defense  Vs. Authorities’ Failure in Responsibility  during the 1992 LA Riots
  2. Leah Jarrell (Norco High) - Child Labor Movement

 

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