Making California history

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Fruitvale Jr. High’s Anne Bardet will be going to nationals for the first time after her Individual Exhibit about Mother Teresa won in category at Sacramento.

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Marissa Manos, Bianca Hinojosa, Ramneet Sahota, Sameen Bramer and Calvin Laverty from Fruitvale Jr. High won in Sacramento with their Group Performance about Sylvia Mendez.

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Fruitvale Jr. High’s Group Performance team of (from left) Dylan Gonzales, Richard Sottile, Aaliyah Beed, Madison Olinger and Gabriela Forter was a winner in Sacramento.

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Centennial High’s Sarah Moore earned first place honors for her documentary “Silently Leaving a Legacy: The Actions of Chiune Sugihara.”

Kern County students made history in Sacramento on May 3. Twelve won in their category at History Day in California, and the next stop for them will be National History Day from June 14-18 at the University of Maryland. Centennial High’s Sarah Moore, whose entry "Silently Leaving a Legacy: The Actions of Chiune Sugihara” was a winner in the Individual Documentary category, will be hoping to improve on last year’s ninth place finish at nationals.

There will be other repeat performances on the national stage. Fruitvale Junior High’s Aaliyah Beed, Dylan Gonzales and Gabriela Forter all made it to Maryland last year. Beed and Gonzales were part of a Fruitvale Jr. High team that finished in fifth place in the Group Performance category. Forter was the county’s lone participant in the Individual Performance event. This year the trio joined forces and picked up two new recruits, classmates Richard Sottile and Madison Olinger, to finish first in Sacramento with their Group Performance "Elie Wiesel: A Survivor’s Legacy, A Messenger for Mankind.”

The county’s other Group Performance team of Marissa Manos, Ramneet Sahota, Bianca Hinojosa, Calvin Laverty and Sameen Bramer from Fruitvale Junior High, was also victorious in Sacramento and will be moving on to Maryland. Their winning entry was "Sylvia Mendez: The Legacy of a Young Girl’s Fight for Equality in Education.”

Making her first trip to the nationals will be Fruitvale Junior High’s Anne Bardet, who was victorious at History Day in California with her Individual Exhibit, "Mother Teresa: A Light in the Darkness.”

Adding it all up, 21 students from Kern County schools achieved honors at History Day in California which focused on the national theme "The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies.” It brought together those students who had won History Day competitions in their own home counties to challenge for the title of state champion. Kern County students earned the right to compete by winning in their category at the Kern County Superintendent of Schools-sponsored Kern County History Day on March 7 in Bakersfield.

Kern County’s History Day in California 2009 Finalists (*indicates winner)

*Senior Individual Documentary — "Silently Leaving a Legacy: The Actions of Chiune
Sugihara,” Sarah Moore — Centennial High
*Junior Individual Exhibit — "Mother Teresa: A Light in the Darkness,” Anne Bardet — Fruitvale Jr. High
*Junior Group Performance — "Sylvia Mendez: The Legacy of a Young Girl’s Fight for Equality in Education,” Marissa Manos, Ramneet Sahota, Bianca Hinojosa, Calvin Laverty and Sameen Bramer — Fruitvale Jr. High
* Junior Group Performance — "Elie Wiesel: A Survivor’s Legacy, A Messenger for Mankind,” Aaliyah Beed, Richard Sottile, Dylan Gonzales, Gabriela Forter and Madison Olinger — Fruitvale Jr. High
Alternate-Junior Group Performance — "Stepping Out of His Shadow,” Moriah Franco, Annie Murrell, Quichaye Hicks, Niko Gonzales and Alexis Aguirre — Thorner School
Alternate-Junior Group Exhibit — "John Walsh: A Legacy for America’s Children,” Amy Williams and MaKay Moss — Columbia Elementary
Alternate-Junior Individual Web site — "Lyndon B. Johnson and His Dream for America,” Brittany Louey — Fruitvale Jr. High
Alternate-Junior Individual Performance — "Jan Scruggs: Healing a Nation,” Andrew Kerwin — Fruitvale Jr. High

History Day in California is sponsored by the Constitutional Rights Foundation, and Kern County History Day was sponsored by the Kern County Superintendent of Schools and the law firm of Klein, DeNatale, Goldner, Cooper, Rosenlieb & Kimball, LLP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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