Students from all over California competed at
State History Day in Long Beach on
April 26-29. The Fontana Unified School District had several individual
student and group projects competing at the state competition and of
those, two projects were named as alternates for the national
competition:
Eric Hester, Corey Jennings, and Jannette Fernandez -
Summit HS
Sr. Group Exhibit: "Dynamo Kiev: A Triumphant Legacy from a
Tragic Time"
Mia Camden and Ezhana Adams - Canyon Crest ES
4th/5th Grade Group Poster: "San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of
1906: A Tragic Past Leads to a Triumphant Future"
Other FUSD student projects that competed in the State
competition are:
- Kyle Manning and Joab Santoyo - Locust ES
4th/5th Grade Group Poster: "Phillis Wheatley: First African American
Poet"
- Andrea Perez and Lareine Callejas - Truman MS
Jr. Group Documentary: "Deadly Service: Anderson vs. PG&E"
- Fracesca Santos, Shannon Lasiter, Blair
Washington, Andrew Hernandez and Cynthia Navarro - Sequoia MS
Jr. Group Performance: "The Triumph and Tragedy of Edgar Allan Poe"
- Amy Carney - Sequoia MS
Jr. Individual Website: "The Challenger Accident"
- Janet Barrera-Martinez - Truman MS
Jr. Individual Website: "The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of
1906"
- Mindy Bui, Ashley Johnson and Shannon Graham -
Sequoia MS
Jr. Group Website: "The Life and Death of the Titanic"
- Jazmine Juarez and Melina Navarrete - Truman
MS
Jr. Group Website: "Martha Stewart"
- Matthew Almendarez - Southridge MS
Jr. Individual Exhibit: "Apollo I - Tragedy Leads to New Triumphs in
Space Innovations"
- Mario Contreras - Jurupa Hills MS
Jr. Individual Exhibit: "Navajo Code Talkers"
- Bianca Valdez-Corral and Katherine Diaz -
Jurupa Hills MS
Jr. Group Exhibit: "Bubonic Plague Changes History"
- Ramon Perez, Jaibir Padda, Annel Vallejo,
Stephanie Calvillo and Brianna Vargas - Southridge MS
Jr. Group Exhibit: "The Price of Our Voice: Women's Suffrage"
- Vanessa Pacheco - A.B. Miller HS
Sr. Individual Documentary: "Vietnam War in the Media: An American
Awakening"
- Esmeralda Cano, Jasmine Causor, Johan Diaz and
Celina Lopez - A.B. Miller HS
Sr. Group Documentary: "Panama Canal: Passage Through the Seas"
Congratulations to all of the FUSD students who competed at
the State History Day competition and good luck to our alternates if they are
called to compete at the 27th Annual National
History Day event at the University of Maryland on June 11-15.
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