The project Flappers and the New Women of the 1920s is one of seven going to the National History Day Regional Competition on March 1. Photo by Donna MacKenzie
Several eighth-grade students at Honeoye Falls-Lima Middle School will have their projects go to the regional round of competition in the National History Day competition. All of them plus several more were exhibited during the Middle School’s History Expo last Thursday (February 13).
The theme this year for the National History Day competition was Rights and Responsibilities in History.
Projects going to the regional round of competition, which will be March 1 at Genesee Country Village & Museum, are Tinker vs. Des Moines by Alivia Filiatrault and Chloe Cardot; The Patriot Act by Marshall Gillette, Johnny Gaudieri and Alex Gaborski; The Annexation of Hawaii by Nora Beckett and Heather Parham; The Spanish Flu by Samantha Weeks, Farrah Holzman, Lia Richardson, Riley Gasser and Emily Richards; The Animal Welfare Act by Maisie Burdet, Betsy Burdett and Bevyn Bartell; Flappers and New Women of the 1920s by Mallory-Nicole Batz and Naomi Stanley; and MLK and the
The project Codes featured sections on Code Talkers such as the Navajo in World War II and the Choctaw code talkers of World War I, codebreaking, code collection and codes themselves which helped America and its allies during both World Wars. Photo by Donna MacKenzie
March on Washington by Ben McQuinn, Austin Jones and Nolan Holt. The Spanish Flu project was a live performance presentation while the others were either Website/Sway presentations or Video Documentaries.
The other live performance project was Women of NASA by Claire Welch, Emily Wells and Maria Bohannon. The other website, Sway or video documentary projects were Cuban Missile Crisis by Levi Fuest, William Fowler and Peter Clayton; Pearl Harbor by Brayden Mull, Henry Kirkwood and Evan Welles; Dropping of the Atomic Bomb by Kaleb Kleinberg, Mason Litteer and Josh Lurvey; The Challenger Explosion by Morgan Spaulding and Alia Holzman; Ellis Island by Ashlyn deRis and Reese Camp; The Stock Market Crash by Cole Kettlehone, Sebastian King and Oliver Webster; Space Race by R’Launni Leonard, Sami Schrader and Neaveah Yeager; The Stonewall Riots by Jasper Atkinson and Bridgit Atkinson; Gay Marriage Laws by Lily Wisnowski; Amelia Bloomer and Women’s Rights by Sundas Kahn and Alexis Hilyard; Apollo 13 by Atticus Crisan; The Fall of the Soviet Union by Adriana Brisbane, Jasmine Cutlip and Chase Carpenter; Titanic by Sam Dent, Ford Thompson and Will Segar; and Codebreaking by Grace Stanton, Fiona Gelb and Violet Catalano.
Seventh-grade projects centered around The American Revolution were also featured during the History Expo.
