Students Advance in History Fair Competition

District 219 students participated in the North Suburban Regional History Fair held recently at Niles North High School. Thirty-six District 219 students qualified for the Chicago Metro History Fair finals that will be held at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago on April 13. This year’s theme is “Innovation in History: Impact and Change.”

The following Niles North students advanced in  the competition:  Exhibits: Zach Hess, “Cyrus Hall McCormick: McReaping America”;  Nyree Khamo and JinAh Jong, “Live More with Mary Livermore: A Suffragette’s Fight towards Women’s Suffrage’; Mara Joaquin, Diane Choe and Rachel Savella, “The Playground Movement: Not a Matter to Be Played Around With”; Amanda Reichardt, “The Wrecking Ball Hits: CHA’s Failure with Public Housing”; Rebecca Gilbert, Maybelle Sicad and Jeanine Taerbaum, “Title IX: A New Meaning to ‘You Play Like a Girl’”; Henrietta Cho, Ammara Junagadhwala and Joy Sugihara, “Unite and Fight: The Congress of Industrial Organization”; Leah Wesolowki and Rebecca Levin, “Wave of Change: Chicago Lakefront as Public Space” and Jeffrey Wu, Jennifer Jan and Jennifer Lin, “The CTA: A Public Innovation.”

The following Niles West students advanced in the competition:

Documentary category:  Jennifer Menchavez and Mimi Kapechuk, “Chicago’s Way of Coming Out of the Closet”; Anum Kassam, Kim Merado, Neena Marma and Hareem Siddiqui, “Essanay Studios: The Forgotten Treasure of the Film Industry”; Erica Mui, “Essanay: Before Hollywood”; Callie Sher and Loren Lewin, “The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union”; and Meghan Sandstrom, Agnes Krason, Klaudia Adamczyk and Rares Dutu, “The Scandal that Saved Baseball.”

Exhibit category:  Forrest Linsell and Jasmin Chacko, “Abandon the Creeping Meatball” and Joanne Kwak, Madeleine Schmidt and Rozina Kanjee, “Tuning in to Children’s Television.”