National History Day

Congratulations to all who made National History Day Pittsburgh a success!

We are pleased to announce the official winners of the 2023 National History Day Pittsburgh contest. All students who placed 1st through 4th in their category will move on to the state competition at the University of Scranton on April 22-23, 2023.

Students who placed 1st through 3rd in the Paper category, as well as those who placed 1st in all other categories, will receive their King Award scholarship in the mail. Scholarships are awarded in the amount of $50 for individual winners and $100 split among the group winners.

Winners of the Rebecca Bowman Award for Excellence in Research and the Local History Award will also receive their prizes in the mail. The Rebecca Bowman Award winners will receive $100 each and the Local History Award winners will receive $75 each.

Thank you again to all who participated in National History Day Pittsburgh 2023, and we look forward to seeing you next year!

Junior Division Winners

Group Exhibit:

1. Great Chicago Fire – AP Martin and Angelina Williams
2. The Manhattan Project in World War 2 – Matthew Bichler and Declan Murphy
3. A Frontier Disaster: The Unintended Consequences of Braddock’s Defeat at the Battle of Monongahela – Kaylin Luster, Courtney Martin, and Skylar Salay
4. Title IX: A New Frontier in Women’s Sports: The Way Women are Viewed Changed Forever – Josephine Farster, Macy Plummer, and Ella Thomas

Individual Exhibit:

1. Anthony Fokker – Sadie Blasch
2. Brown Vs. Board of Education – Lili Giulianelli
3. A Ride to Space – Eliza Kuzy
4. Women’s Rights – Audrey Jeswilkowski

Group Performance:

1. The Controversy of an Expanding Frontier: The Federalist Party, Secession, and the Death of Hamilton – Ava Dudzinski and Jessa Haney

Individual Performance:

1. The Great Depression – Max Michael

Group Website:

1. Blazing a Backwards Path to the Crossroads: The Afterlife and Legacy of Robert Johnson – Saylor Lee, Bailey Lowther, and Dena Truong
2. George Washington at Jumonville Glen: How a Frontier Skirmish Set the World on Fire – Eric Adamec, Brandt Cramer, and Andrew Sichi
3. A Frontier Lost: The Dire Consequences of the British Victory at Bushy Run – Luca Ghilani, Dalton Daumit, and Ethan Baron
4. Meadowcroft Rockshelter: The First American Frontier – Mailey Hayes, Alexis Lezama, and Abby Russell

Individual Website:

1. Maria Tallchief, On Pointe: Blazing Frontiers in American Culture and Society – Bella King
2. Fighting Two Wars: Susan Taylor-King on the Frontier of Civil and Women’s Rights- Abby Nickolls
3. Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Greatest Pioneer – Jackson Tookey
4. A Most Deadly Frontier: The Sager Family on the Oregon Trail – Benjamin Bowman

Group Documentary:

1. Andrew “Rube” Foster: Blazing a Frontier of Freedom on the Basepaths – Vincinzo Francia and Zachary Plymire
2. Following the Yellow Brick Road: A Populist Challenge to the Powers That Be – Nazara Nickens and Ava Rudolph
3. The Kirkbride Plan: Frontiers in the Treatment of the Mentally Ill – Daleah Mowat and Laila Rossell
4. The Loneliest Frontier: Larry Doby Integrates the American League – Vito Francia and Samuel Ruschak

Individual Documentary:

1. Elvis and Ed: Rocking America’s Cultural Foundations – Rhylee Howlett
2. Reporting on the Television War: Breaking the Frontiers of Journalism during the Vietnam War – Brian Nguyen
3. KDKA: Frontiers in Communication – Tyler Dufalla
4. Pride Over Prejudice: The 54th Massachusetts – Julia Kilvady

Paper:

1. Standing on Top of the World: Sir Edmund Hillary, the Conquest of Everest and the Uncertain Future of the Himalayan Frontier – Ali Bergamasco
2. From East Pakistan to Bangladesh: How Frontiers Culminated in the Birth of a New Nation – Humna Anzaar
3. An Evolving and Divided Frontier: Eli Whitney, the Cotton Gin, and the Fate of a Nation – Eli Kolowitz
4. Lost in the Woods: The Camp David Accords – Symal Bukhari

Rebecca Bowman Award for Excellence in Research:

Lost in the Woods: The Camp David Accords – Symal Bukhari

Local History Award:

Fort Dewart: The Frontier Outpost that Secured an Empire – Jacob Pavlic

Senior Division Winners

Group Exhibit:

1. “Not even the sky is the limit”: How NASA’s Project Mercury Revolutionized Technology in the Final Frontier – Yunjoe Chang and Kaitlyn Strine
2. Battle Cry of Freedom: How Black Soldiers Pushed the Frontier of Civil Rights – John Westwood and Trenton Wood
3. ASL: The Rise of the Inclusive Language – Elise Barnes and Genevieve Kadylak
4. From Cold Cases to Convicted Criminals: The Expansion of the Forensic Science Frontier – Melanie Brown and Wesley Reagle

Individual Exhibit:

1. The Night Witches – Sophie Meyers
2. Changing the Landscape of the Movie Industry: Walt Disney A Pioneer of Animation, To Think it All Started With a Dream and a …Rabbit? – Zac Meyers
3. Guerrilla Girls – Alexis Ross
4. The Revolutionary Radiance of Hedy Lamarr: Hopping from the Silver Screens to Radio Waves – Jocelyn Curreri

Group Performance:

1. Bayard v. Singleton: An Influential Court Case in Early America – Chiara Brun and Molly Morrissey

Group Website:

1. The Seeing Eye: The Legacy of Morris Frank’s Strive for Personal Independence – Lily Bauer, Lily Hood, and Katerina Tsambis
2. भारत में शिक्षा का सूर्य (The Sun of Education in India) – Grace Johnson and Rosalia Lascola
3. Jackie Robinson: A Twentieth Century Civil Rights Frontiersman – Tyler Aftanas, Eli DeVita, and Micah Ivy
4. Genghis Khan’s Impact on the Asian Frontier – Isabel Chaparro and Ayla Rafferty

Individual Website:

1. Intersecting and Parallel Frontiers: Elijah Lovejoy, John Brown and the Rise of Radical Abolitionism – Michael Kotlar
2. Breaking New Frontiers in the Church and in the World: Martin Luther, a Pioneer – Luke Huffman
3. Susan Blow: Frontier of the American Kindergarten Movement – Gina Volpe

Group Documentary:

1. Music at the Frontier of Palestinian Resistance – Kefimba Cisse, Ava Del Rio, Nathanael Eichenmiller, Darren Johnson, and Lucie Miller
2. The Double Standard: The Story of Rosalind Franklin – Rocco Brown, Emily Chen, and Clare Sliben
3. DNA Theory: The Creation and Controversy Behind the Building Blocks of Life – Drew Hunter, Carter Loughren, Drew Ogrodowski, and Peter Sekel
4. The Wright Brothers: The Evolution of Flight – Michael Morascyzk, Christopher O’Toole, Levi Roupas, and Noah Vespi

Individual Documentary:

1. Revolver: A Frontier in the Art of Rock – Londyn Kalakewich
2. Surrealism Spreading – Kelly Hanlin

Paper:

1. The Forgotten Pioneers: The Paris Commune – Nathan Pope
2. Alan Turing: How The Father of Computer Science Crossed Scientific and Social Frontiers – Riley Blatz
3. A Woman’s Right to Vote: the Frontier Broken by New Zealand’s Suffragists – Aicha Jaafar
4. Burn These Papers – Rosalie Krusinski

Rebecca Bowman Award for Excellence in Research:

The Forgotten Pioneers: The Paris Commune – Nathan Pope

Local History Award:

Breaking Fences: Josh Gibson, the Great Migration, and the Frontier of Change – Jordan Sisley