Last week we hosted our annual MWMS National History Day competition and I am so proud of all of the students who participated!  Please join me in congratulating our school winners who will move on to the Howard County finals in March:

Individual Performance:

• Leslie Deiss: Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Hero for Women, Destroyer of Social Injustice
• Varshini Suresh: Gandhi: A New India

Individual Exhibit:

• Pranavaa Elangovan - The Anthracite Coal Strike: A Miners' Revolt
• Brian Pham - William Lloyd Garrison: The Liberator

Group Exhibit: 

• Dana Barker and Susan Kim - Her Fight: Ida B. Wells Barnett's Impact on Racial Equality

Individual Website:

• Jerardo Alfara-Mendoza - Fighting for Workers: The 1980 Polish Solidarity Movement
• Hannah Mensaria -  The Newsboys' 1899 Strike for Fair Practice

Paper:

• Ceclilia Cuffe: The Parti Pris Paradigm Shift: A Magazine Turned Social Movement
• Arya Teymourlouei: The Iranian Revolution: The People of Iran Taking a Stand Against the Shah