History Fair Winners!

Nine Carrollwood Day School high school students and five middle school students won top honors in the Hillsborough County History Fair last month! Most of these students have advanced to compete in the Florida History Day state competition will on May 7 – 9. The state contest is held on the campus of Tallahassee Community College.

The National History Day theme this year is "Taking a Stand in History."  CDS middle school and high school students explored and celebrated a wide range of inspiring people who created lasting legacies by taking a firm position on issues important to them. 

All seventh grade students completed projects for an assignment in Mrs. Jennifer Dosher’s IB MYP Year 2 Humanities class. A number of these projects were selected to compete at the Hillsborough County History Fair.  Once chosen to go to the County History Fair, the students worked diligently to make their projects even better.  The eighth grade and high school students that competed at the Hillsborough County History Fair developed their projects independently through a club sponsored by MYP Coordinator and high school history teacher, Ms. Sabrina McCartney.  Competing in the history fair has become a family tradition for Luke, Joshua, and Justin Jackson.  The tradition began when Luke, who is now in 11th grade, was in seventh grade and now that Justin is in seventh grade, this is the first year that all three brothers competed at the county fair.

Congratulations to our nine high school participants who all placed first in their categories!

1st place – Going to Florida History Day
Individual Exhibit -Sarah Schoellhorn (’19)

• We Will Not Be Silent:  Sophie Scholl Takes a Stand Against Hitler One Leaflet at a Time

1st place – Going to Florida History Day
Group Website - McKenna Barkett (’18) and Jake Flansburg (’18)

• The Stand Against Osceola:  Marginalized No More
  

1st place – Going to Florida History Day
Group Performance - Joshua Jackson (’20), Luke Jackson (’18), Sydney Pelaez (’18), Rachel Stevenson (’18), and Noah Torres  (’18)

• Taking a Stand Against Democracy, The Cuban Victory at the Bay of Pigs Following the Cuban Missile Crisis

1st place – Going to Florida History Day
Individual Performance - Aksheta Kanuganti (’20)

• Perry Harvey Sr., The Influential Stand For Rights 

Several middle school projects also placed at the county fair.  Congratulations to:

1st place – Going to Florida History Day
Group Performance - Abby Alexander (’22), Hannah McCartney(’22), Sarah McCartney (’22), Aidan Ragan (’22), and Suhani Shah (’22)

• Eleanor Chamberlain:  Standing Up for Women's Suffrage

2nd place  - Going to Florida History Day
Individual Performance - Ashna Patel (’22)

• Christa McAuliffe

3rd place
Individual Documentary - Gabriel Makris (’22)

• Alliances of World War II
  

In addition, four CDS projects won Special Awards:

Kid's Choice for Most Humorous Title

• Girls Just Wanna Have FUNdamental Rights
  Jessie Golden (’22), Laney Higgins (’22), Olivia Vrchoticky (’22), and Fiona Watson-Canning (’22),

Judge's Award for Best Collaborative Research

• Secrets and Spies of the Cold War
  Haarikia Gurivireddygari (’21) and Mandy Lam (’21)

Judges's Award for Best Analysis

• Perry Harvey Sr., The Influential Stand for Rights
  Aksheta Kanuganti (’20)

Judge's Award for Best in Black

• Taking a Stand Against Democracy, the Cuban Victory at the Bay of Pigs and the following Cuban Missile Crisis
  Joshua Jackson (’20), Luke Jackson (’18), Sydney Pelaez (’18), Rachel Stevenson (’18), and Noah Torres  (’18)

Here are examples of some more of the middle school projects:

Jackson Crow  (’22)

• Aircrafts in WWI
  

Gabriel Makris (’22), Tyler Broyles (’22), and Bobby Dozier (’22)

• The Brady Bill
  

James McDonough (’22)

• Declaration of Independence

Haarika Gurivireddygari (’21) and Mandy Lam (’21)

• Secrets and Spies of the Cold War

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Congratulations to these students who also presented outstanding projects at the Hillsborough County History Fair.

Anna Tamura (’22), Justin Jackson (’22), Cole Michaud (’22), Gabe Slater (’22), Derek Zdanowski (’22), and Sabrina Feldman (’21).