Congratulations to Stuy’s NHD Winners - SWEPT the NYC Competition!
Stuyvesant Social Studies students in Mr. Sandler’s and Mr. Moore’s classes swept the NY City level History Day competition in February winning 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in almost every single category! Over 40 of our
students won awards at the NYC competition. Two of our students’ winning projects were featured in the Brooklyn Paper! Read the article at this link.
Mr. Sandler’s APUSH students won first place in group performance, second in individual performance, 1rst place in group exhibit board, 1rst, 2nd and 3rd in group film category and 3rd place in individual exhibit and group website. Mr. Moore’s students won 2nd in group exhibit board, 1rst and 2nd in individual exhibit board, dominated individual websites and won 1rst and second in group websites. (photos courtesy of Mr. Sandler)
See a full size photo collage at this link.
To see a list of all winners, click this link. We’re celebrating our Stuy winners! Congratulations to all! Bravo!
1st Place Group Documentary: “Little Rock Nine: Pioneers in Desegregation” by Amanda Cisse, Ashley Yang, Eva Blyakherov, and Zoe Grossman
2nd Place Group Documentary: “The Star of the Mythic West: the Man Who Broke Frontiers” A film by Britney Huang, Nozima Rahmatova, and Lillian Zou
3rd Place Group Documentary: J. Robert Oppenheimer: An Atomic Frontierby Afm Bari, Fiyaz Ferdouse, William Jiang, Gabriel Lwin, Tawseef Reza
1st Place Group Website: “The Bay of Pigs: A New Frontier of Hostility Between the United States and Cuba” by Alan Chen and Christopher Wong
2nd Place Group Website: “Sojourner--the First Planetary Rover” by Mehjabin Rahman, Jo. Walkup, Mary Lee, Sophia Zheng
3rd place Group Website: “Robert Smalls: From the Shadow of Slavery to Liberty’s Congressman” by Uma Sukhu, Medha Prasad, Joy Cai
1t place Group Performance: “David Sarnoff: The Visionary of the Television Frontier.” by Carol Hon, Dylan Ma, William Tang, Lucas McGarvey and Vanessa Chen
2nd Place Group Performance: "The Chinese Experience on Angel Island: The Frontier That Makes Or Breaks One's Life" Ziyue Wang and partner from another NYC public high school.
2nd Place Individual Performance: “Frederick Douglass” by Toby Oluwatobi.
1st Place Group Exhibit Boards: Crossing the Bridge to Brooklyn: Innovation, Prosperity, and Freedom by Giles El-Assal, Daniel Murdoch, and Kaeden Ruparel
2nd Place Group Exhibit Boards: The Kellogg Company: Revolutionizing the Breakfast Table Through Cereal Advertising by Alan Chan, Zoe Chan, Abigail Jin and Cindy Ye
1st Place Individual Exhibit Boards: Mendez v. Westminster: Challenging Latino Segregation in the U.S. by Benjamin Goihman
2nd Place Individual Exhibit Boards: The Legacy of Upton Sinclair: Navigating the Frontier of Industrial America by Kikyo Makino-Siller
3rd Place Individual Exhibit Boards: America’s Playground: George C. Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park Expanding the Social and Entertainment Frontier by Winnie Gao
1st Place Senior individual website: “The World of Tomorrow: Welcoming a New Era of Peace, Progress and Prosperity” by Chloe Wong
3rd Place Senior individual website: “Elizabeth Smith Friedman: America’s First Female Cryptanalyst” by Anastasia Lee
