Peck History Day 2026

This past Friday, January 9, the history department hosted Peck History Day, showcasing exhibits, websites, documentaries, and performances from Grades 6-8. Students created projects that used research to support their thesis statement, explain their topic's historical significance, and connect their project to this year's National History Day (NHD) Theme, "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History." The history department is proud of all students for their great work!

The following projects were selected to compete at the Regional Competition at Monmouth University on Saturday, February 28:

Sixth Grade

• The Concorde - Laura Bornia
• Tiananmen Square - Avery Cheng
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points - Owen Li
• Dolly the Sheep - Stewart Materne
• U2 Incident of 1960 - Pierce Amery, Auggie Thompson
• The Sputniks - Sofy Corica, Helen Peek

Seventh Grade

• The Chinese Exclusion Act: A Negative Revolution for Chinese Immigrants - Sofia Kennedy
• Indira Gandhi’s Emergency: A Warning for Democracies - Anjali Sanghvi
• The U-2 Spy Plane Incident: A Revolution in Espionage - Dhilan Seth
• Chinese Civil War: The Fight for China - Peter Tonzola
• Operation Jaywick: Revolution in Operation Planning - Sydney Wade
• Chernobyl: Too Little, Too Late – Reforms on Nuclear Law in the Wake of the Chernobyl Disaster - Matthew Birrittella, Teddy Goyal, Marvin Xu
• The June Democratic Struggle: A Revolution for a New Korea - Greyson Dobesh, Tyler Puleo, Ethan Zuo
• Gandhi’s Salt March: A Revolution for Strikes in India - Reed Dwyer, Nate Fishkin

Eighth Grade

• The Telegraph: The First Public Demonstration - Hadley Bendelius
• The Little Rock Nine: The Students Who Reformed Educational Equality in America - Aria Brooks
• Bloodborne: How the AIDS Crisis Transformed American Activism - Maddie Forman
• Title IX: 37 Words that Changed the Game - Jaida Lagos-Clay
• "Putting the World on Wheels": Ford's Model T and His Revolutionary Assembly Line - Hartley Orenstein
• Saving the Great Swamp from Jetport Constructions - Lydia Pester
• Ping Pong Diplomacy: Revolutionizing Sino-American Relations - Declan Weng
• The Chilean Coup D'état of 1973: A Revolution that Changed the World - Douglas Breaks, Eric Jia
• The Bill of Rights: The Cornerstone of American Democracy - Norah Carifa, Eva Zarro
• From Privilege to Public: How Horace Mann Made Education Everyone's Right - Hardy Lee, Alex Lin, Arjun Wadhera