Congratulations to all Winners of Pinellas History Day!
See below for the list of 2024 Pinellas History Day winners.
All 1st and 2nd place projects will move on to represent Pinellas County at the state-level Florida History Day contest in May.
Students who are going to state -- please pick up a packet of info on the state contest from Michelle Anderson directly after the Pinellas History Day Awards Ceremony. Please email andersonmiche@pcsb.org if you missed the awards ceremony.
We are so proud of all the students who competed in Pinellas History Day!
2024 PINELLAS HISTORY DAY WINNERS
| Place | Category | Division | Students | Title | School |
| Senior Group Performance | |||||
| 1st | Group Performance | Senior | Aaron Montchal, Christian Moreno, Lucas Skyers | Emmett Till | Seminole HS |
| 2nd | Group Performance | Senior | Eva Keller , Gabrielle Warga, Logan Penachio, Savannah Warga | Farewell to Kings. | Palm Harbor HS |
| Junior Individual Performance | |||||
| 1st | Individual Performance | Junior | Eleanor Nartker | The National Defense Education Act | Dunedin MS |
| 2nd | Individual Performance | Junior | Sammy Woods | Michael Jackson | Morgan Fitzgerald MS |
| Senior Individual Paper | |||||
| 1st | Paper | Senior | Alina Hernandez | Music's social and political revolution | Seminole HS |
| 2nd | Paper | Senior | Caleb Barco | Henry Ford and the Moving Assembly Line | Seminole HS |
| Senior Group Website | |||||
| 1st | Group Website | Senior | Diya Dipu Nair, Ellie Kim, Hana Weeks, Tiffany Siev | Soweto Uprising | Largo HS |
| 2nd | Group Website | Senior | Chris Liu, Christopher Daniel, Christopher Lawrence, Destin Vo, Gavyn Santore | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Palm Harbor HS |
| 3rd | Group Website | Senior | Addison Wadsworth, Becca Bernard, Caleb Hersey | Clair Patterson | Seminole HS |
| Senior Individual Website | |||||
| 1st | Individual Website | Senior | Charles Oberlander | Yick Wo vs. Hopkins: A Landmark Turning Point Against Asian Discrimination for Equality and Justice | Largo HS |
| 2nd | Individual Website | Senior | Story Pennock | Crossroads of Peace | Shorecrest HS |
| 3rd | Individual Website | Senior | Brenna Kasprzyk | Women of the OSS | Seminole HS |
| Senior Group Documentary | |||||
| 1st | Group Documentary | Senior | Hailey Westfall, Lauren Basara | The Avengers Girls | Seminole HS |
| 2nd | Group Documentary | Senior | Austin Duffy, bronson shafer, Lincoln Dukes | Impacts of the Atomic bomb | Seminole HS |
| Senior Individual Documentary | |||||
| 2nd | Individual Documentary | Senior | Ainesh Kumar | A Great Way to Fly! | Largo HS |
| 1st | Individual Documentary | Senior | Rylie Rice | The 1900s Police Reform Movement | Seminole HS |
| 3rd | Individual Documentary | Senior | Cody Greene | The Necessity For Speed | Seminole HS |
| Senior Group Exhibit | |||||
| 1st | Group Exhibit | Senior | Anton Dang, Daniel Lin | Warring of the Pacific Coast | Seminole HS |
| 2nd | Group Exhibit | Senior | Kristen Williams, Madelyn McRitchie, Taylor Cannon | Women Sufferage | Seminole HS |
| 3rd | Group Exhibit | Senior | Kyran Torres-Spelliscy, Nicolas Jones | Nuclear Weaponry | Largo HS |
| Senior Individual Exhibit | |||||
| 1st | Individual Exhibit | Senior | Kyiana Buford | Katherine Johnson’s Turning Point in History | Boca Ciega HS |
| 2nd | Individual Exhibit | Senior | Katherine Drozhinin | The Miracle Drug Penicillin | Largo HS |
| 3rd | Individual Exhibit | Senior | Noah Von Dauber | Marconi | Seminole HS |
| Junior Group Performance | |||||
| 1st | Group Performance | Junior | Ayana Kotadya, Jana Abutaleb, Josie Yanda, Kate Hurme, Shayna Graff | Matchgirl's Strike of 1888 | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 2nd | Group Performance | Junior | Aarush Shah, Liam Jacobs, Matthew Sherrell, Saashiv Gupta, Sahi Popuri | Boston Tea Party of 1773 | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 3rd | Group Performance | Junior | Evan Tran, Holland Newman | Coffee Fueled the Enlightenment | John Hopkins MS |
| Junior Group Documentary | |||||
| 1st | Group Documentary | Junior | Chloe Lin, Nidhi Reddy | Penicillin: The Shot Heard Around the World | Morgan Fitzgerald MS |
| 2nd | Group Documentary | Junior | Amelia Lane, Tyler Jones, Walton Kent | Pioneering the National Parks | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 3rd | Group Documentary | Junior | Alaina Daniel, Gianna Magro, Leah Markose | The Monument Men | Dunedin Highland MS |
| Junior Group Website | |||||
| 1st | Group Website | Junior | Anne Henry, Teegan Carico | Stabbed in the Back: How the Death of Julius Caesar Resulted in the Birth of an Empire | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 2rd | Group Website | Junior | James Bohn, Kennedy Hang, Melina Garcia-Pascual | The Seneca Sisters Seek Suffrage Rights | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 3rd | Group Website | Junior | Edeler Theophile, Gavin Taylor | Emmett Till | Carwise MS |
| Junior Group Exhibit | |||||
| 1st | Group Exhibit | Junior | Alice Scotti, Claire Furey, Hailey Watkins | Haber-Bosch Process | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 2nd | Group Exhibit | Junior | Chelsea Howell, emma cvihun, Zaynah Hussein | Votes for Women | Safety Harbor MS |
| 3rd | Group Exhibit | Junior | Gavin Goar, Jude Murphy, Kayvon Boozarjomehri | Radium: A Turning Point Within a Tragedy | East Lake MS |
| Junior Individual Website | |||||
| 1st | Individual Website | Junior | Jada Cadwell | Title IX of 1972 | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 2st | Individual Website | Junior | Marisa Pugley | Bolshevik Breakthrough | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 3rd | Individual Website | Junior | Kyryl Skotarenko | Battle of Saratoga | East Lake MS |
| Junior Research Paper | |||||
| 1st | Research Paper | Junior | Ritchel Mesidor | From Segregation to Strength in Solidarity: The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 2nd | Research Paper | Junior | Yashwaant Ravi | Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle: The Novel that Revolutionized Food Safety | Shorecrest MS |
| 3rd | Research Paper | Junior | Anna Tran | The Enforcement of Industrial Safety: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Its Impact | Pinellas Park MS |
| Junior Individual Documentary | |||||
| 1st | Individual Documentary | Junior | Elliot Green | A Piece of Wood and Four Wheels | Shorecrest MS |
| 2nd | Individual Documentary | Junior | James Darlington | Echoes of the Revolution | Shorecrest MS |
| 3rd | Individual Documentary | Junior | Davis Iten | Nature's Revolution | Dunedin Highland MS |
| Junior Individual Exhibit | |||||
| 1st | Individual Exhibit | Junior | Cade Gebo | Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine Invention | Dunedin Highland MS |
| 2nd | Individual Exhibit | Junior | Hayden Zielinski | The Impact the Safety Brake | Shorecrest MS |
| 3rd | Individual Exhibit | Junior | Keira Wingeier | The Triangle Tragedy | Dunedin Highland MS |
