2023 State Contest Finalists
The 2023 finalists from the state-level National History Day contest in North Carolina.
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | School | Teacher/Adviser |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Individual Documentary, 1st Place | Olivia Caldwell | Irena Sendler: The Woman Who Jumped In | Imagine Bilingual | Stephanie Bennett |
| Junior Individual Documentary, 2nd Place | Abigail Ulmer | Carrier Pigeons; A Frontier in Communication | Cane Creek Middle | Nicole Osborne |
| Junior Individual Documentary, 3rd Place | Julian Saldanha | Satyagraha in South Africa: Gandhi's Journey to Justice | St. Michael the Archangel | Christopher Will |
| Junior Group Documentary, 1st Place | Elianna Yoder, Autumn Beiler | Almost Lost to Modern Eyes: The Scientific Frontier of American Forestry | Classical Scholars | Yvonne Krowka |
| Junior Group Documentary, 2nd Place | Hannah Oh, Suh Hee Shin | Beethoven: A Frontier and Inspiration | Davis Drive Middle | Young Oh |
| Junior Group Documentary, 3rd Place | Brian Hepp, Brooks Zygmond | How Delicious, Refreshing Coca-Cola Became America's Drink | St. Michael the Archangel | Paul Gauthier |
| Junior Individual Exhibit, 1st Place | Clarissa Hamlin | Ethel Traphagen: The Woman Who Pioneered Pants | Pineview Academy | Audrey Hamlin |
| Junior Individual Exhibit, 2nd Place | Magali Murray | L'Anse Aux Meadow - First European Settlement in North America | Pine Springs Preparatory Academy | Jerry Hensler |
| Junior Individual Exhibit, 3rd Place | Vivi Vannoy | Alfred Hitchcock Presents 'Psycho' | Two Rivers Community School | Kelly Lynn |
| Junior Group Exhibit, 1st Place | Lily Stanek, Andley Bautz, Caroline Brenegan | Dr. Paul Hodges: Bringing the X-Ray to American Hospitals | St. Michael the Archangel | Christopher Will |
| Junior Group Exhibit, 2nd Place | Lannie Stallworth, Khloey Snyder, Aletha Muralt | "The Big Picture" | Pine Springs Preparatory Academy | Jerry Hensler |
| Junior Group Exhibit, 3rd Place | Brooke Barnard, Naudia Lewis, Ryleigh Ethel | The Extraordinary New Frontier : The Corps Of Discovery Charts Its' Way | Pamlico County Middle | Bethany Rothers |
| Junior Paper, 1st Place | Andrew Larsen | New Frontiers in Human Rights: The Development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Impact on the World | Two Rivers Community School | Kelly Lynn |
| Junior Paper, 2nd Place | Aiden Stewart | Medical Advancements During War Time | Wayne School of Engineering | Michelle Rutledge |
| Junior Paper, 3rd Place | Isabella Penabad | Pioneers of Title IX: The Yale Women's Rowing Crew of 1976 | St. Michael the Archangel | Paul Gauthier |
| Junior Individual Performance, 1st Place | Eloise Clark | The Echo of Sappho | Oakwood School | Erica Imbimbo |
| Junior Individual Performance, 2nd Place | Eska Garrison | The Lost Colony of Roanoke: A Disappearance on the North American Frontier | ArtSpace Charter School | Ian Canary-King |
| Junior Group Performance, 1st Place | Madalo Bean, Madison McAuley | Racial Integration in Ballet | Wayne School of Engineering | Michelle Rutledge |
| Junior Group Performance, 2nd Place | Jordan Doyle, Lillian Pearson | Fredrich Frobel: The Man Who Revolutionized Childhood | Hendersonville Middle | Anne Boyette |
| Junior Group Performance, 3rd Place | Abel Wade, Zoey Jenkins, Khloe Chapman | The First Failed Frontier | Swain County Middle School | Megan Lucas |
| Junior Individual Website, 1st Place | Elliot Askins | The Secret Game: A Frontier in Basketball Integration | Hickory Grove Christian School | Erin Askins |
| Junior Individual Website, 2nd Place | Teague Bell | AC Electricity | Wayne School of Engineering | Michelle Rutledge |
| Junior Individual Website, 3rd Place | Joyce Wang | Sputnik 1: How the Most-Feared Soviet Satellite Made Frontiers in History | Hickory Grove Christian School | Erin Askins |
| Junior Group Website, 1st Place | Ryan Malt, Ezra Kushigian | California or Bust: How one 3,000 mile frontier journey across the United States resulted in a national highway system | Classical Scholars | Eliza Hardin |
| Junior Group Website, 2nd Place | Abby Muir, Sabrina Almaguer | Bikini Kill, Riot Grrrl, and Revolution | Cane Creek Middle | Nicole Osborne |
| Junior Group Website, 3rd Place | Allison Ward, Audrey Brown, Ava Johnson | Films Through a New Perspective | Pine Springs Preparatory Academy | Jerry Hensler |
| Senior Individual Documentary, 1st Place | Grace Kushigian | Sonic Boom: Crossing the Frontier Into Music Made With Electricity | Great Expectations | Lisa Dillon |
| Senior Individual Documentary, 2nd Place | Adrian Tejada | From Confinement to Capitol Hill: The Politics of Black Americans During Reconstruction | Early College at Guilford | Morris Johnson |
| Senior Individual Documentary, 3rd Place | Annie Ferrara | Image of a Pioneer: Rosalind Franklin | Oakwood School | Erica Imbimbo |
| Senior Group Documentary, 1st Place | Brian Zhang, James Xiao, Abhinav Gurram | Green Hope High | Bala Gurram | |
| Senior Group Documentary, 2nd Place | Jonah Hardin, Kyle Malt | Face to Face: A Cold War Consumer Diplomacy Frontier | Classical Scholars | Yvonne Krowka |
| Senior Group Documentary, 3rd Place | Alina Sohail, Manahil Nauman | The New Faces of War: A Face Regained; A Life Restored | Oakwood School | Erica Imbimbo |
| Senior Individual Exhibit, 1st Place | Nova Leuchtmann | Muckraking and Mental Health: The Boundary Breaking Investigations of Nellie Bly | Cary Academy | Naomi Barlaz |
| Senior Individual Exhibit, 2nd Place | Maddy Chandler | The Frontiers of Big Business: the Expansion of the United Fruit Company at the Expense of a Nation | Early College at Guilford | Morris Johnson |
| Senior Individual Exhibit, 3rd Place | Sofia Roth | Three Court Cases, One Frontier: Quock Walker's Legal Battle for Freedom | Bloom School | Lara Roth |
| Senior Group Exhibit, 1st Place | Faith Brennan, Grace Liu, Meredith Presnell | The Cayuse War: How Western Expansion Confined Native Americans | Early College at Guilford | Morris Johnson |
| Senior Group Exhibit, 2nd Place | Ava Martin, AnnaGrace Cazeault, Allana Henderson | Vaccine of '18 | New Hanover High | Chadwick Goins |
| Senior Group Exhibit, 3rd Place | Lucy Dimock, Anna Holt Basinger, Whitson Weinberg, Caroline Morrison | Game, Set, Match: Arthur Ashe Sets the Stage for Future Generations of African American Tennis Players | New Hanover High | Chadwick Goins |
| Senior Paper, 1st Place | Katherine Meine | Cape Fear Academy | Nathan Gergel | |
| Senior Paper, 2nd Place | Amy Snively | Cary Academy | Naomi Barlaz | |
| Senior Paper, 3rd Place | Abby Smetana | Miracle Withheld: The Insulin Patent and Its Impact on Medical Ethics | Cary Academy | Naomi Barlaz |
| Senior Individual Performance, 1st Place | Isabella Hardy | The Most Extraordinary Woman in all of Europe: Mary Somerville and The Frontiers of 19th Century Science. | Gryphon Academy | Elizabeth Hardy |
| Senior Individual Performance, 2nd Place | Maggie Trapp | Alessandro Volta and the First Electric Battery | SandHoke Early College High | Joseph Brubaker |
| Senior Group Performance, 1st Place | Preston Beiler, James Thomas, Andrew Renegar, Asa Cobb, Ryan Worley | The Long and Winding Road: How the Beatles Pioneered New Technologies in Combining Classical and Popular Music Creating a New Musical Mainstream | Great Expectations | Lisa Dillon |
| Senior Group Performance, 2nd Place | Keira McKibben, Hannah Jensen, Campbell Hodge, Ava Karis Renegar | Classical Scholars | Eliza Hardin | |
| Senior Individual Website, 1st Place | Cody Young | Maternity vs. Misogyny: The Frontier of Obstetric Pain Management in the 19th and 20th Century | Early College EAST High | Justin Saulter, Matthew Ipock |
| Senior Individual Website, 2nd Place | Namrata Pradeep | Prudencia Ayala: An Indigenous Feminist Ready For Change | North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics | Susmitha Pradeep |
| Senior Individual Website, 3rd Place | Kate Taaffe | Frontiers in Medieval Law and their Effects on the Modern Legal System | Woodlawn School | Cameron Edsall |
| Senior Group Website, 1st Place | Nishitha Daniel, Abby Mocharnuk | The Frontier of Human Rights: Japanese Comfort Women | Early College at Guilford | Morris Johnson |
| Senior Group Website, 2nd Place | Anirudh Arunprasad, Michael Danley, Evan Pfeifer | The Enigma Code: Frontiers in History Through the Language of War | Early College at Guilford | Morris Johnson |
| Senior Group Website, 3rd Place | Ella Forkin, Joseph Politi, Slade Forkin, Adam Politi, Rowan Forkin | I Am Death? The Manhattan Project: The Frontier Opened by the Development of the First Nuclear Weapon | Cape Fear Academy | Nathan Gergel |
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