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Click the drop down menus below to view a sample of student work from the 2020 State Contest!
Junior Group Documentary
First Place
The Deafening Sound of Barriers Being Broken:
The American School for the Deaf

Nandini Shah and Leah Glaspey

Second Place
Wheels for Women: Albert Pope Breaking Barriers in the Bicycle World

Eira Prakash and Meera Kamath
​

Third Place 
Rosie Cracks Barriers on the Homefront

Evelyn Chun and Kate Kennon
Junior Individual Documentary
First Place
Eli Terry: Snapping Barriers With His Milling Machine
Aarush Agarwal

Second Place
The Montreal Protocol: How Science and Politics Saved the Earth's Atmosphere
James Chafouleas

Third Place
Samuel Colt: The Journey to Breaking Barriers and Changing America

Andrew Zhong
Senior Group Documentary
First Place
Billy Mills: From Gloom to Gold
Gavin Houghtaling and Aj Kiessling

Second Place
​The Rosenhan Experiment

Lillian Yim, Sara Holt, and Emily Tycz
​

Third Place
Where No One Has Gone Before: How Sputnik Sparked the Space Age

Valli Pendyala and Ria Saxena

Senior Individual Documentary
Second Place
Mahatma Gandhi 
– The Peaceful Protester
Anishka Perera

Third Place
Harvey Milk: Breaking Barriers and Breaking out of the Closet

Lucy O'Brien

Junior group exhibit
Picture
First Place
Opening Doors for Equal Opportunities: Prudence Crandall's School for
"Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color"

Mary Lynch, Simonne Thibeault, and Sylvia Halbrooks
Picture
Second Place
Chicago Freedom Movement

Colin Gordon, Aekom Diogun, and Xavier Going
Picture
Third Place
Ella Grasso: Governor of the People

Arushi Sharma and Harini Sambandam
junior individual exhibit
Picture
First Place
Cycling On the Road to Freedom: How the Safety Bicycle Broke Barriers for Women In the United States

Claire Flynn
Picture
Second Place
Breaking the Wrong Barriers: The Kara Hultgreen Controversy

Kathryn Lucente
Picture
Third Place
Sandra Day O'Connor: Breaking Gender Barriers in the
United States Supreme Court
Kate Maglio

senior group exhibit
Picture
First Place
Standing up by sitting down: How the 504 sit-in monumentally broke down barriers for the disabled community

Emmy Marcus, Karina Murray, and Layla Bloomingdale
Picture
Second Place
Ignorance 
≠ Advancement: How Scientific Breakthrough during the AIDS Crisis Cured America's Prejudice
Richa Vaid and Carolina Ferrer
Picture
Third Place
Dr. Alice Hamilton: Breaking Workplace Barriers, Improving Conditions and Health Hazards

Emma Williams and Caroline Parrott
senior individual exhibit
Picture
First Place
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks; Breaking Barriers in
Medicine, Bioethics, and in History

Danielle Spitz
Picture
Second Place
A Woman in Business: Beatrice Fox Auerbach

Natalie Gavalis
Picture
Third Place
The Connecticut State Farm for Women: Breaking New Ground for
Women's Prisons and Freedoms

Mia Porcello
junior paper
First Place
The Native American Occupation of Alcatraz Island; Breaking National Barriers in Indian Rights and Activism

by Rosie Hampson
Second Place
1968 Olympics Black Power protest

by Aki Hussain
Third Place
Beatrice Fox Auerbach: Breaking Barriers at  G. Fox and Beyond

by ​Preston McNulty Socha
Senior paper
First Place
Ford, Rockefeller, and Gandhi: Breaking Human Rights Barriers through
Population Control, 1951-1977

by Ishan Prasad
Second Place
A Tale of Consumerism and Conformism: Too Many Barriers Broken?

by Felicia Wang
Third Place
The Puerto Rico Pill Trials: The Dark Chapter in the Heroic Struggle to Break
​Reproductive Barriers

by Ella Rosen
Junior group performance
First Place
​A Canterbury Tale: Defying Racial and Legal Barriers
Amelia Remo, Anqi Hou, and Abigail Langston

Second Place
​"I'm Sick of Being Told I'm Sick": The Stonewall Uprisings of 1969
Gioia Miller, Katie Lynch, and Eleanor Johnston

Third Place
The Boundary-Busting Blackwells (& Stone)

Ava Ryen, Vivien Ryen, Maren Gilchrist, and Sabrina Smith
junior individual performance
First Place
Breaking the Gilded Cage: Florence Nightingale

Rebecca Bemiss

Second Place
Rita Moreno: Breaking Barriers in Entertainment
Anushri Sandeep

Third Place
Thomas Cook: Breaking Barriers to the World of Travel
Jacob Lucente

senior group performance
First Place
​Credit Where Credit Is Due: The Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

John Margelony and Clarissa Halpryn
​

Second Place
​Women's Rights in Nigeria
Sophie Chaves and Bryn Kummell

Third Place
John Winthrop: His impact on the Connecticut Witch Trials

Madina Saleh and Haneen Abuteen
senior individual performance
First Place
​Mister Rogers: Breaking Barriers in Television to Nourish the Minds of Young Children

by Marlena Pegolo
​

Second Place
Breaking Illegal Surveillance: The Burglars Who Stole the Secrets of the FBI
Iniya Raja

Third Place
Splitting the Atom: The Legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the
Manhattan Project

Thomas Sargent
Junior Group Website
First Place
Rainbow on the Streets: How the Stonewall Uprising Broke Barriers

by ​Shirley Lin and Haylie Lau
Second Place
​Gateway To the West: Transformation of a Nation

by Jonah Turner, Liam Quinn, Michael Tutoli, and Owen Broadwater
Third Place
Bombing on Broomsticks: The Night Witches Make History

by Bailey Fuerst and Bronwyn Mott
junior individual website
First Place
A Woman's Place is in the Aerospace Lab: The West Computers of NASA
by Tess Johnston
Second Place
Dolly: The World’s Most Famous Sheep, Who Shattered Barriers and Changed The World

by Sophie Shen
Third Place
Isabella Beecher Hooker: Breaking Barriers for Women

by Mikail Aliyev
Senior group website
First Place
Robert Smalls: Breaching the Barrier of Intolerance

by ​Emma Nordberg and Lea Rivel 
Second Place
Rosa Parks: Sitting Down to Defeat Racial Barriers in the 1950's

by Kaylee Bahler and Penelope Torres
Third Place
Elizabeth Blackwell: A Pioneering Physician Who Dented the Gender Barrier

by Sarah Thomas and Ava Vincini
senior individual website
First Place
The Tuskegee Airmen: Soaring Through the Color Barrier

by Ethan Mathieu
Second Place
Caroline Hewins: Opening the World of Libraries to Children

by Audrey Chairvolotti
Third Place
Italian Immigrant Women: Weaving their Way into the Multi-Cultural
Society in Connecticut

by Gabriel Festa

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