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FCUSD students earn champion ranking in History Day contest
Fifty-five Folsom Cordova Unified School District students participated in the Sacramento County History Day competition at Inderkum High School on March 5. Presenting 21 projects, they earned Champion ranking in their categories and will continue on to the state competition at William Jessup University May 6 - 7. There were 18 additional students, presenting nine projects who were runners-up in their categories.
Russell Ranch Elementary, Theodore Judah Elementary, Mather Heights Elementary, Folsom Middle School, Sutter Middle School, Vista del Lago High School, and Cordova High School were all represented among the County Champions.
Champions
Russell Ranch Elementary, Theodore Judah Elementary, Mather Heights Elementary, Folsom Middle School, Sutter Middle School, Vista del Lago High School, and Cordova High School were all represented among the County Champions.
Champions
- Daniel Guo, Arnav Chatty, and Abheek Gandhi - Russell Ranch Elementary for 2-D Display (Group) - The Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Aditya Chodapunedi and Nipun Dour - Theodore Judah Elementary for 2-D Display (Group) - Steve Jobs: The Innovator.
- Akhil Nekkanti and Jacob Steelman - Mather Heights Elementary for 2-D Display (Group) - The Discovery of Oxygen.
- Maggie Huber, Natalie Haglan, Katelin Godwin, and Lauren Wong - Vista del Lago High for Documentary (Group 9-12) - Immigration: Exchanges and Encounters Between Mexico and the United States.
- Alyssa Daebelliehn, Deanne Cuadra, Stephanie Duncan, and Serafin Garica - Vista del Lago High for Documentary (Group 9-12) - Nuclear Energy: The Destroyer of Worlds.
- Chinmayi Balusu - Sutter Middle School for Documentary (Individual 6-8) - Rosalind Franklin.
- Gregory Deacon - Vista del Lago High for Documentary (Individual 9-12) - NASA and its Hidden Heroes, Together, We Could Overcome.
- Sarah Darwish, Prachi Saldhi, Vanessa Newsome-Slade, and Elizabeth Liu - Vista del Lago High for exhibit (Group 9-12) - Pop Art's Exploration of the Exchange Between Consumerism and Culture.
- Suditi Bhatt, Isha Saldhi, Nishita Bagaria, and Akshara Legala - Vista del Lago High for Exhibit (Group 9-12) - Hippocrates: The Ancient Physician Who Shaped the Medical World.
- Lauren Acosta - Cordova High School for Exhibit (Individual 9-12) - Richard Nixon and the Trip that Changed the World.
- Karen Garcia Ramos - Cordova High School for Exhibit (Individual 9-12) - The Angel of the Battlefield: Clara Barton.
- Anurag Tarmaster, Ellie Nguyen, and Mara Allen - Folsom Middle School for Performance (Group 6-8) - Captives or Captors? Imprisonment, Re-education Camps, and War Crimes Committed by US Veterans.
- Sofia Bert, Makenzie Jones, Jacqueline Davis, and Jayna Feldman - Vista del Lago High for Performance (Group 9-12) - We Did It!
- Ashley Cooray and Sara Cheng - Vista del Lago High for Perforamnce (Group 9-12) - Alexander Fleming: One Man, One Accidental Encounter.
- Nidhi Dontha - Sutter Middle School for Website (Individual 6-8) - Electronic Mail: Application that made Internet popular.
- Zainab Abadin - Vista del Lago High for Website (Individual 9-12) - The Structure of DNA.
- Gehena Girish - Vista del Lago High for Website (Individual 9-12) - Road Trip on the American Highway.
- Nick Ribadeneira, Rishab Chatty, Yash Bhatia, and Junyang Wang - Folsom Middle School for Website (Group 6-8) - Lewis and Clark: A Westward Expansion.
- Kush Upadhyay, Lucien Provencial, Lucas Rasmussen, and Logan Rasmussen - Vista del Lago High for Website (Group 9-12) for Purchasing America's Greatness: The Exchange of the Louisiana Territory.
- Tanay Nunna, Bryce Kreiser, Shilpa Reddy, and Riley Terando - Vista del Lago High for Website (Group 9-12) - Censorship: America's Encounter with War.
- Grace Adams, Haley Karsting, Carson Thomas, and Michael Nelsen - Vista del Lago High for Website (Group 9-12) - The Harlem Renaissance and Encounters Between White and Black America and Cultural Exchange.
- Geoffrey Embry, Henry Ankhelyi, Victor Fu, Siddharth Karthikeyan - Vista del Lago High for Website (Group 9-12) - Exchanges of the Fur Trade and American Industory.
Runners-up
- Mayuri Kamble and Manya Sharma - Mather Heights Elementary for 2-D Display (Group) - Marie Curie: Exploration of Radium.
- Audrey Bray - Russell Ranch Elementary for 2-D Display (Individual) - Amelia Earhart, Flying in the Skies.
- Nathan Bergen, Steven Hobbs, Kareem Ahmad, and Justin Galinato - Vista del Lago High for Documentary (Group 9-12) - Hijacked, The Rise of Islamophobia Since 1979.
- Ethan Bray - Folsom Middle School for Documentary (Individual 6-8) - Walt Disney: Exploring New Technologies.
- Karyssa Courey, Olivia Prymak, Amber Olson, and Nate Rettinger - Vista del Lago High for Exhibit (Group 9-12) - Exploring the History of Animation.
- Dheera Dusanapudi - Folsom Middle School for Paper (Individual 6-8) - Harper Lee: Exploring Racism Through Literature.
- Meghna Islam - Vista del Lago High for Website (Individual 9-12) - The Exploration of Japan.
- Hritvi Dave and Arianna Mavy - Sutter Middle School for Website (Group 6-8) - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
- teja Dusanapudi and Eashaan Katiyar - Vista del Lago for Website (Group 9-12) - Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: The Untold Story of the Cold War.