11 Radnor Students Move On In National History Day Competition

WAYNE, PA – Eleven Radnor Middle School students are heading to the state level of the National History Day Competition after a strong showing at the regional competition in West Chester on April 6.

The Radnor Township School District said RMS students entered 22 projects at the regional competition.

The result was 28 awards in eight categories going home with Radnor students, all of which will go to the state competition on May 11 and May 12 at Carlisle Area High School.

The eight projects by RMS students that advanced to the state level are:

• Hannah Yao and Mia Xie, First Place, Junior Group Exhibit, Yellow Fever
• Michael Marino, First Place, Junior Individual Website, The Whipper and the Bee Hive: A Farmworker Struggle For Better Working Conditions
• Theresa "Tess" Brennan, Second Place, Junior Individual Exhibit, Home of the Brave, Land of the Free?; Indian Removal Act of 1830
• Uzma Khan, Second Place, Junior Individual Paper, The Vicious Cycle of Conflict and Compromise: The Clash between the Whites and the Native Americans in the Black Hills
• Janie McRae, Second Place, Junior Individual Performance, Feminism Reborn: The 1970 Women's Strike for Equality and the Conflict that Became the Second Wave of Feminism in America
• Anton Skvortsov and Gavin Slate, Second Place, Junior Group Website, Stalingrad
• Petros Karamanides, Second Place, Junior Individual Website, The 1992 Los Angeles Riots
• Claudia Gelles and Tegan Kelsall, Third Place, Junior Group Website, Berlin Wall

The RMS competitors are all enrolled in Mary Canniff, Jay Echternach, Ellen Foley or Emily Morikawa's social studies classes.

All projects centered around this year's National History Day theme, "Conflict and Compromise in History."

National History Day is a year-long educational program that engages students in grades 6-12 in the process of discovery and interpretation of historical topics.

Students produce dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries, websites and research papers based on research related to the annual theme. These projects are then evaluated at local, state, and national competitions.

Congratulations and good luck to these students!

Pictured from left to right are Anton Skvortsov, Tegal Kelsall, Michael Marino, Petros Karamanides, Tess Brennan, Mia Xie, Gavin Slate, Hannah Yao, Janie McRae, Glaudia Gelles and Uzma Khan.

Image via Radnor Township School District