Project Examples

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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
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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
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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
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
Second Place
Chicago Freedom Movement
Colin Gordon, Aekom Diogun, and Xavier Going
Third Place
Ella Grasso: Governor of the People
Arushi Sharma and Harini Sambandam
junior individual exhibit
First Place
Cycling On the Road to Freedom: How the Safety Bicycle Broke Barriers for Women In the United States
Claire Flynn
Second Place
Breaking the Wrong Barriers: The Kara Hultgreen Controversy
Kathryn Lucente
Third Place
Sandra Day O'Connor: Breaking Gender Barriers in the
United States Supreme Court
Kate Maglio

senior group exhibit
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
Second Place
Ignorance ≠ Advancement: How Scientific Breakthrough during the AIDS Crisis Cured America's Prejudice
Richa Vaid and Carolina Ferrer
Third Place
Dr. Alice Hamilton: Breaking Workplace Barriers, Improving Conditions and Health Hazards
Emma Williams and Caroline Parrott
senior individual exhibit
First Place
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks; Breaking Barriers in
Medicine, Bioethics, and in History
Danielle Spitz
Second Place
A Woman in Business: Beatrice Fox Auerbach
Natalie Gavalis
Third Place
The Connecticut State Farm for Women: Breaking New Ground for
Women's Prisons and Freedoms
Mia Porcello
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
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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
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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
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

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