COLLEGE PARK, MD — National History Day® is excited to announce the winners of this year’s National Contest.

On Thursday, June 15, at the 2023 National Contest awards ceremony, held in person for the first time in four years at the Xfinity Center at the University of Maryland, National History Day announced this year’s prize winners. Over 2,600 students and 600 teachers attended the National Contest, which took place on the campus in College Park, MD, from June 10–15.

The ceremony was the culmination not only of the week-long contest but also of a year of student research, project creation, and competition. During the 2022–2023 school year, over half a million students globally completed projects centered around the theme, Frontiers in History: People, Ideas, and Events, in one of five categories: documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, or website.

Throughout the spring, students competed in a series of contests beginning at the local level. The top students from all 50 states, Washington D.C., U.S. territories, and international schools were invited to compete in the National Contest.

Seven GCCISD junior school students competed and/or placed in the national event. They include:

Junior Group Exhibit

Annali Ramirez, Gabriel Ramirez, Jonathan Lewis, and Yashvir Singh Gill (E.F. Green Junior School)-sixth place at National History Day, first place at Texas History Day, and special award: Regional Outstanding Entry at National History Day for their project, Got Safe Milk?

Junior Individual Exhibit

Ava Flood, Cedar Bayou Junior School, competed at National History Day and earned first place at the Texas History Day event for her project, National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

Junior Historical Paper

Maahi Singh, E.F. Green Junior School, competed at National History Day, earned second place at Texas History Day and her project was presented at the White House Historical Association for her project, Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. DuBois: Frontiers in Black Upward Mobility, Civil Rights, and Economic Stability Challenging Conventional Thinking in America.

Junior Individual Website

Anay Gupta, E.F. Green Junior School, competed at National History Day, earned second place at Texas History Day for the project, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Uniting as a New Frontier.

About National History Day® (NHD): NHD is a non-profit organization based in College Park, Maryland, which seeks to improve the teaching and learning of history. The National History Day Contest was established in 1974 and currently engages more than half a million students every year in conducting original research on historical topics of interest. Students present their research as a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, or website. Projects compete first at the local and affiliate levels, where the top entries are invited to the National Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park. NHD is sponsored in part by National Endowment for the Humanities, World Education Foundation, Patricia Behring Foundation, 400 Years of African American History Commission, History Channel, Pritzker Military Foundation, The Better Angels Society, National Park Service, Dr. Scholl Foundation, History NET, Doughboy Foundation, Tom Lauer, and Skehan Communications. For more information, visit nhd.org.