We're celebrating Ms. Josina Dunkel's students who prevailed the Princeton Gerrymandering Project! Learn more at this link.
The top map from her class went to the team APH submitted by Hangsheng Huang. This won first place in both the Ohio group and the stealth gerrymander category as a whole! Ms. Dunkel's students dominated the OH group, with Pheobe Buckwater's group coming in second, and Gerrysquaring submitted by Anna Gittardi coming in third. Ben & Gerry's submitted by Sophianne Leung and Dazany from Zameen Cater's group both had honorable mentions.
In the IL group, Tiumso's map submitted by Uma Sukhu won second place, and Allison Zhao's group The Stealthy Spies had a map that was an honorable mention.
In the CO group, TFAM's map submitted by Andy Lau was an honorable mention, and one of the highlights in our partisan fairness category!
Best Stealth Gerrymander Map Note: The contest was designed around these categories to illustrate not only the public’s ability to draw “good” districting maps, but also “bad” maps, or stealth gerrymanders, that reveal how maps can be drawn using data in ways that produce gerrymanders without being readily visible to a casual observer. The contest aimed to highlight how stealth gerrymanders are used more often in recent years to distort fair representation. A student team taking Josina Dunkel's AP Human Geography course from Stuyvesant High School in New York City entered a stealth gerrymander map for Ohio which managed to achieve majority representation for a minority party in Ohio while still maintaining compact lines and mainly following county boundaries.
The winning teams were:
Hangsheng Huang, Allen Lin, Preston Thomsen
Phoebe Buckwater, Carol Hon, Angela Lin
Anna Gittardi, Noam Pasman, Owen Lin
Sophianne Leong, Srinity Rijal, Karen Chen
Zameen Carter, Sunny He, DeAngelo Poon
Uma Sukhu, Sophia Mueller, Tiffany Leong
Allison Zhao, Kyle Chen, Chloe Tom
Andy Lau, Medha Prasad, Farzad Hoque, Tenzin Samchok
