Carlisle Area School District students, grades 6-12, competed at the Region #8 History Day competition on Saturday, March 19th at Messiah University. A total of 22 students placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the competition and will now advance to the state-level competition on May 7th & 8th and the University of Scranton. Several students also received honorable mentions.
The winners were:
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBIT
1st – Sophia Clayville – “The Diplomacy of Fashion”
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE
2nd – Alyanna Grim – “Diplomacy & Corruption in the Adoption System Created by Georgia Tann”
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL MEDIA
1st – Carter Martin – “Censored: How the Diplomacy of the Hay’s Code Gave Rise to the Debates Over
the 1st Amendment’s Place in Art”
3rd – Joshua Meert – “Sudetenland: Appeasing Hitler”
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE
2nd – Elena Rasmussen – “Confronting Carlisle’s Past: A Look Into the Carlisle Indian Industrial School”
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBIT
1st – Allison Negley – “Debate and Diplomacy Through Operation Ranch Hand
2nd – Caroline Foote – “Memorializing Tragedy: The 9/11 Memorial”
3rd – Nora Flaherty – “From Obscene to Mainstream: James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and the Story of Transforming Ideas”
HM – Emily Seifert – “Down With the Mouse House”
SENIOR HISTORICAL PAPER
2nd – Lydia Ring – “Legislating the End: Pennsylvania’s Act for Gradual Abolition”
HM – Natalie Buss – “An Outcry for Change: The Social Movements of Nuclear Power”
SENIOR GROUP EXHIBIT
1st – Atticus Renault, Benjamin Howland, & Boden Griffith – “The Immediate and Lasting Impacts of the Treaty of Waitangi”
2nd – Sarah & Elisabeth Forrester – “Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: How FDR’s Inner Debate Affected Yalta”
3rd – Cassie Diehl, Emily Rose & Patience Oliveira – “Body Image Debate: Barbie’s Influence on Young Girls”
HM – Hannah Stoner & Myana Brown – “Women’s Suffrage: Cumberland County’s Contribution”
SENIOR GROUP MEDIA
2nd – Graham & Aroostine Lively – “A Forgotten Conflict: The Impact and Importance of the Aroostook War”
HM – Eva Ball & Ella Shatz – “A Volcanic Revolution”
SENIOR GROUP WEBSITE
1st – Jack Pontious, Bryce Killinger, & Aedan Shevlin – “The Nuremberg Trials: The Impacts Made on Diplomacy”