PHOTOS: Fifth Annual Agents of Change Festival

It was a motley crew that gathered Friday morning in the Media Center for the fifth annual Agents of Change Festival.

The 32 students in WHS history teacher David Gavron's College Old World/New World History on Friday morning embodied their selected "agent of change" for interviews with parents, teachers and staff.

The students dressed their part whether personifying a true historical figure, such as Leonardo da Vinci, or a particular event, such as the Salem Witch Trials.

Hannah Kravitz selected Abigail Adams as her agent of change because she identified with Adams' strength as she took on uncommon tasks and responsibilities while her husband pursued his law and political career.

"She allowed him to become the leader that he was," Kravitz said of Abigail Adams. "She had beliefs that everyone was equal. She knew what was the right thing. Her ideas set the foundation for the rights we as women have today."

In other parts of the Media Center, students assumed accents, some even speaking a few sentences in a different language, and educated the interviewers on the agents themselves as well as the culture and time in which the agent lived.

A portion of each student's grade was based on the reviews the interviewers submitted from their discussions.