History Day Winners Heading East Soon

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Windward students have a chance to make history next month at the National History Day competition in Maryland, after a fine showing at the state level.

More than a dozen entries from Kailua to Kahuku qualified for the national event, which will be held June 12-15 at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Top awards went to Castle High student Russell Elting for his film, Demon Rum and Reefer Madness, which took first place for Senior Documentary. (Elting also won a $4,000 HPU scholarship and other awards.) Kahuku High & Intermediate won first place for Senior Performance with Silent Spring: The Debate to Save the Planet (Kenner Shumway, Alexandra Hoag and Ethan Miller).

Laie Elementary won first for Junior Website for Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the Battle over Hetch Hetchy (in Yosemite valley). Team members are Kamaile Aluli, Kaylee Alana Miller and Truman Spring. Laie students Puaoolelagi Sao and Christopher Tuliloa took first in Junior Exhibit for Tusitala: Diplomacy through Storytelling.

Mokapu Elementary’s Brianna Salinas took first in Youth Exhibit for U.S.-Mexico Immigration Diplomacy: The Bracero Program. Mokapu actually swept this category.

Also qualifying for nationals was Kailua Intermediate’s Megan Wander for her paper 14 Days in History: The Cuban Missile Crisis.