Kirkland students win honors at National History Day competition in Maryland
Published 5:11 pm Friday, June 29, 2012
Fifteen Lake Washington School District students recently placed at the National History Day Contest in College Park, Md.:
• First place and $5000 History Channel prize – Lila Balakrishnan, Maya Balakrishnan Tara Balakrishnan, and Samhita Karnati, Senior Group Documentary, Redmond High School
• First place and $1000 prize – Aishwarya Nirmal and Rachel Roberts, Senior Group Performance, International Community School
• Fourth place – Katie Brandao, Senior Individual Website, Rose Hill Junior High
• Fifth place – Jason Lee and Adarsh Mital, Senior Group Website, International Community School
• Seventh place – Mahi Elango, Adarsh Karnati, Anand Nambakam and Sophie Tevosyan, Junior Group Documentary, Redmond Junior High
• Eighth place – Laura Liao, Junior Individual Website, International Community School
• Eleventh place – Steven Li, Junior Individual Website, International Community School
Each fall over half a million students nationwide start working on the year-long National History Day program, competing in a series of history contests that begin at the local level. The top students in each category are selected for participation in the national contest. Participating students choose their own topics of study and research from original sources based on the theme, Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.
National History Day students research historic documents and artifacts, conduct oral histories, search the Internet for information on their topics, and travel to historic sites. They present their work in a variety of ways, by creating museum-type exhibits, video documentaries, original performances, websites, or traditional research papers.
Over 300 historians and other education professionals evaluate the students’ work at the national competition. Scholarships were awarded to select students, and approximately 100 students took home cash prizes between $250 and $5,000 for superior work in a particular category of judging.
