Cooperstown CSD

The 8th and 9th grade students participated in the local National History Day Contest on January 9, 2024. Under the leadership of history teachers Josie Rusk and John Brotherton, co-teacher Laura Bliss-Lamb, and librarian Michelle Hitchcock, the students completed the project for National History Day using the annual theme, "Turning Points in History," to guide their research.  

The students also benefited from the collaboration between CCS and the Cooperstown Graduate Program through a grant from CFEE. The CGP students helped instruct the students on topic selection, primary versus secondary resource selection, and research throughout the project.  This CCS and CGP collaboration will continue by helping those students who compete in the regional contest, which will be held March 16, 2024, at Milford Central School.

Winning Project Entries

Junior – Group Exhibit

1^st           Lockdown: Columbine (Patrick Gibson and Frank Pasek)
2^nd         Little Rock Nine  (Claire Baldo and Parker McManus)
3^rd          Battle of Gettysburg  (Ada Macleish, Hu Agostino, and Ciaran O'Sullivan)

Honorable mention    
Four Dead in Ohio (Emma Bravin and Hayden Merwin)
Battle of Midway  (Henry Ayers, Kaiden Carey, and Shepard Olsen)

Senior – Group Exhibit

1^st         Beaches of Blood (Yousef Khedr, Ryan Barber, and Oliver Horvath)
2^nd      Ve'lodrome d'Hiver (Kat Goldfinger, Emily Parker, Jade Olinsky, and Adam Cole)
 3^rd      Drugs and Democracy (Brayden Sentz and Elijah McCaffrey)

Honorable mention
Iron Lady  (Leah Phillips and Sophia Johnson)
The Storming of the Bastille   (Haakon Pawlowski, Gavin Grady, and Hayden Spencer)

Junior –Individual Exhibit

1^st        Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (Abigail Congdon)

Senior – Individual Exhibit

1^st        Edward Jenner Inventor of the Smallpox Vaccine (Olivia Temp)
2^nd     Emmeline Pankhurst: Women's Suffragist (Nora Craig)

Junior – Group Documentary

1^st        The Invention of Tampons  (Annika Murray and Carleigh Williams)
2^nd       Marilyn Monroe vs. Twiggy (Abby Cole and Zoey Springer)

Senior – Group Documentary

1^st        Creation of Israel  (Emily Menzies and Yimdrulk Gyamtso)
2^nd       First Triumvirate (Owen Nolan, Seton Davis-Fralick, and Brian Zhang)
3^rd       Opium Wars (Brody Schliermann, Landon Seamon, and Owen Capozza)

Junior – Group Website

1^st        Kodak Camera  (Andrea Akins, Ryan Norwood, and Lillian Wood)
2^nd       Roe v. Wade  (Siri Shanker, Eleanor Walker, and Triston Kantor)

Senior – Group Website

1^st        Nuclear Arms Race (Liam Fritts, Shamus Murphy, and Jacob Mclaughlin)

Junior – Paper

1^st        Treaty of Versailles  (Matthew Duszynksi)

Senior – Paper

1^st        Indian Salt March         (Jahnavi Mahesh)
2^nd     Easter Rising in Dublin  (Andrew Olski)