History Day's qualifying projects

Advertiser Staff

Eight projects from Kahuku High and Intermediate and six from Waipahu Intermediate topped the list of 25 displays, essays, documentaries and performances from local schools that qualified for the National History Day competition to be held June 15-19 at the University of Maryland.

More than 230 students from public and private schools statewide participated in the local competition last month.

Forty-seven students qualified for the national competition.

Waipahu Intermediate, which has never qualified for more than two projects, surprised everyone, including social studies teacher Lorena Aping.

"I was in a state of disbelief," Aping said. "I thought we would maybe get a couple of second or third places. But this was really unexpected."

The school took first place in the three categories it participated in — display, documentary, performance.

"They just went gangbusters this year," said Bob Buss, program officer at the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities.

First- and second-place winners qualified for the national competition.

Junior Division (grades 6-8)

• Displays: First place, Kimberly Fletcher of Waipahu Intermediate School, for "The Hawai'i Longshoremen Strike of 1949: A Successful Step in Labor History"; second place, Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, Mililani Middle, for "Executive Order 9066 — Rights Lost! Responsibility Fulfilled?"; third place, Dominique Dacanay and Rowena Reyes, Waipahu Intermediate, for "The Berlin Wall: Prisoners in Their Own Country."

• Historical Research Essay: First place, Kelsey Anderson, Kailua Intermediate, for "The Bombing of Hiroshima: Did the U.S. Have the Right to Use the Atomic Bomb and Did They Use it Responsibly"; second place, Shannon Ching, Kahuku Intermediate, for "The Right to Privacy?"; third place, Amanda Tanhchaleun, 'Aiea Intermediate, for "The Controversy Behind Title IX."

• Documentary Media: First place, Arbie Campuspos, Waipahu Intermediate, for "U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands: Denied Rights of the Marshallese"; second place, Brandon Liwanag-Luat, Sarah Fong and Jennifer Moriki, King Intermediate, for "From Prejudice to Hawai'i's Politics: Hawai'i's Democratic Revolution of 1954"; third place, Blake Ann Antida, Brittany Enanoria and Jacqueline Reed, Waiakea Intermediate, for "Horace Mann: A Man's Protection of Equality Through Public Education."

• Performance: First place, Monique Albano and Sara-Malia Scott, Waipahu Intermediate, for "The Bonus March of 1932: Peaceful Protest or Civil Unrest?"; second place, Richard Tabalno, Waipahu Intermediate, for "Clay vs. United States: Defining Rights to Claim Conscientious Objector"; third place, Kendra Ho Ching, Lucie Wilson and Alix Roberts, Kahuku Intermediate, for "We Wept and Moved West."

Senior Division (grades 9-12)

• Displays: First place, Cecily Kaya, Moanalua High, for "The 100th Infantry Battalion: Rights Denied; Responsibility Fulfilled"; second place, Leanne Ta, McKinley High, for "Fifty Years of Injustice: The Comfort Women"; third place, Daisy Ramil, Joanne Manuel and Lloyd Cainguitan, Waipahu High, for "Cock A Doodle Doo."

• Historical research essay: First place, Jokke Kokkonen, Kahuku High, for "There is No Danger"; second place, Marlene Yafuso, Waiakea High, for "Education for All Americans: The Vision of Horace Mann"; third place, Genevieve Allen, Kahuku High, for "The Constitution on Trial: Virginia Minor and the Struggle for Equal Voting Rights."

• Documentary media: First place, Rebecca Wunder, Wende Murayama and Caine Jette, Maui High, for "Fighting for the Right to be Called Americans: The Story of the Nisei Soldiers"; second place, Devin Elting, Castle High, for "C.R.I.P.A."; third place, Ashton Alvarez and April Alvarez, Kahuku High, for "Marching for the Rights, Maintaining the Responsibility."

• Performance: First place, Jessica Hanson, Tatiana Chew and Melani Spielman, Kahuku High, for "Can We Speak?"; second place, Lilika Fonua, Jackie Lautaha and Noelle Spring, Kahuku High, for "Mary Wollstonecraft: An Enlightened View of Rights and Responsibilities"; third place, Ashley Sutherland, Micah-Seth Munekata and Lauren Furuya, Hawai'i Baptist Academy, for "Affirmative Action: The Meltdown of the Melting Pot?"

Also qualifying

In addition to all first- and second-place projects in each of the four format categories (displays, documentaries, essays and performances) at Hawai'i State History Day, the following students also qualified to participate at National History Day.

• Junior display: Dominique Dacanay and Rowena Reyes, Waipahu Intermediate, for "The Berlin Wall: Prisoners in Their Own Country"; Austen Hagio and Kevin Acacio, Waipahu Intermediate, for "The Bus Boycott of 1953: A Prelude to the Civil Rights Movement."

• Junior documentary media: Blake Ann Antida, Brittany Enanoria and Jacqueline Reed, Waiakea Intermediate, for "Horace Mann: A Man's Protection of Equality Through Public Education"; Ana Reidy, Kahuku Intermediate, for "Violation of Civil Rights."

• Junior performance: Kendra Ho Ching, Lucie Wilson and Alix Roberts, Kahuku Intermediate, for "We Wept and Moved West"; Lauki'i Cheng, Kailua Intermediate, for "Rosa Parks."

• Senior display: Daisy Ramil, Joanne Manuel and Lloyd Cainguitan, Waipahu High, for "Cock A Doodle Doo"; Lorraine Cabanero, Denise Kapua and Rachelle Taclas, Waipahu High, for "Title IX: Strong Enough for a Man, but Made for a Woman."

• Senior documentary media: Ashton Alvarez and April Alvarez, Kahuku High, for "Marching for the Rights, Maintaining the Responsibility"; James Edmondson, Castle High, for "Violent Video Games: Oh We Got Trouble."

• Senior performance: Adam Turin, Kahuku High, for "The Irish Holocaust: Rights Removed, Responsibilities Denied, A Nation Starved."