Middle and high school students from the WW-P district returned from the week-long National History Day Competition with the following honors:
Grover Middle School
Rishab Bhandari: Fourth place in the nation, junior division; and a New Jersey Award for the exhibit, “Fiat Money: The End of the Golden Age.”
Allison Chen: Second place in the nation, junior division, for the documentary, “The Vaccine: Smallpox as a Turning Point in Immunization.”
Sruthi Katakam: First place in the nation, junior division, for the website, “The Einstein-Szilard Letter: Launching America into the Atomic Age.”
Virginia Jiang: Fourth place in the first round for the paper, “Life and Death from Above: How One Man Created a Chemical Equation, Weaponized Air, and Fed the World.”
Anahita Mohaptra: Third place in the first round for the exhibit, “The Geopolitics of Oil: Staging the 1953 Coup.”
Community Middle School
Devanei Solai was honored for individual performance, for “One Book, Two Books, Red Book, Blue Book: Dr. Seuss Creates a Turning Point in Children’s Literature.”
High School South
William Jiao: Fifth place in the nation, senior division, and a New Jersey State Award for the website, “American Intelligence in the Pacific Front.”
George Li and Jeffrey Wang: Seventh place in the nation, for the group documentary, “Declaration of Rights: A Revolutionary Crossroads in Enlightenment Republicanism.”
Yinan Zheng: Honored for individual exhibit, for “William Carlos Williams and Poetic Modernism.”
High School North
Liam Knox: Second place in the nation, senior division, for the documentary, “Pillars of Faith, Towers of Freedom: The Rise of Radical Islam and the Path to 9/11.”
Suntharam Solai: Eighth place in the nation, senior division, for individual performance, “Checkmate: The 1972 World Chess Championship as a Political and Intellectual Turning Point.”
Allie Burke, Caroline Charles, Sara Duane, and Sara Gostomski: Fourteenth in the nation, senior division, for group performance, “The Emancipation Proclamation: Injustices Made Right in the Pursuit of Freedom.”
