FORT BEND ISD (March 6, 2026) – Fort Bend ISD students are moving on to the state level Texas History Day competition after earning first- and second-place honors at the Fort Bend Regional History Day competition.

The state competition will be held April 11 at the University of Texas in Austin.

The results below include advancing students and third-place finishers:

Elementary Level

Elementary Individual Poster

1st Place: Breaking the Chains of Caste: Ambedkar’s Revolution for Equality – Anvi Joshi, Madden Elementary
3rd Place: The Coal Wars – A Turning Point for Workers – Aarya Yedlapally, Madden Elementary

Elementary Group Poster

1st Place: India’s Independence from British Rule – Ira Patel, Sanaya Thakker, Madden Elementary
2nd Place: Green Revolution: How It Helped Feed the World – Keval Paghadal, Nisarg Varia, Madden Elementary
3rd Place: Fast Food Revolution – Eleanor Cleary, Claire Kurdziel, Dulles Elementary

Junior & Senior Categories

Junior Paper

1st Place: Cutting Without Pain: The Invention That Changed Surgical History – Ayaan Khoja, Sartartia Middle School
3rd Place: The Loom Onwards to Freedom – Rayna Jaisalmeria, Fort Settlement Middle School

Senior Paper

1st Place: There Is No Greater Inequality – Emily Liu, Austin High School
2nd Place: The Declaration of Independence: An Ongoing Revolution, Provoking Reaction, and Inspiring Reform – Aaryan Hussain, Clements High School
3rd Place: Branded As Traitors – Isabella Weems, Clements High School

Junior Individual Documentary

1st Place: The New Odyssey: How AI Reshaped Classrooms and Rewrote the Rules of Learning – Shannon Yang, Fort Settlement Middle School
2nd Place: The EPA: Born by Fire, Tested by Change – Isha Vadlamani, Fort Settlement Middle School
3rd Place: Seeds of Change: The Green Revolution’s Effect on Agriculture – Vedant Avasarala, Quail Valley Middle School

Senior Individual Documentary

1st Place: The Article That Shook the Valley: Article 370, India, and Kashmir – Shreya Deo, Travis High School

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place: Revolting Against Restraints: How the Anti-Psychiatry Movement Led to Humanization of Mental Health Treatment – Stella De Vega, Quail Valley Middle School
2nd Place: From Pixels to Language: Shigetaka Kurita’s Emoji Revolution (1999) – Renesue Raparthi, Quail Valley Middle School
3rd Place: How She Revolutionized the World Overnight: The HMS Dreadnought – Kyle Lien, Fort Settlement Middle School

Senior Individual Exhibit

1st Place: From Iron Lungs to Iron Will: Science, Society, and the Medical Revolution Against Polio – Jovit Jobins, Ridge Point High School
2nd Place: Three Digits, One Lifetime: How 988 Transformed Mental Health Crisis Response – Avery Wong, Austin High School

Junior Individual Performance

1st Place: Battle of the Alamo – Dhruvi Shah

Junior Individual website

1st Place: Revolutionizing Industries: How Calculus Changed the World – Akshay Patel, Garcia Middle School
2nd Place: The Torches of Freedom Campaign: A Controversial Way in Advertising – Eden Xiong, Sartartia Middle School
3rd Place: The Renaissance: The Artistic Revolution That Changed Art History Forever – Iris Su, Quail Valley Middle School

Senior Individual website

1st Place: Truth Under Trial: The Pentagon Papers – Mohini Goswami, Austin High School
2nd Place: Lowell Mill Girls – Jidina Mory, Austin High School

Junior Group Documentary

1st Place: Tylenol Murders – Minsa Ali, Jayne Geach, Cynthia Sun, Theertha Viswajith Sagitha, Sartartia Middle School
2nd Place: The Pink Mirror – Alex Folloder, Alykhan Kamadia, Nysa Pratap, Survi Sharma, Sartartia Middle School
3rd Place: The Boston Tea Party – Kinza Mussani, Alyssa Nguyen, Fort Settlement Middle School

Senior Group Documentary

3rd Place: A Cure Built on Silence: The HeLa Cell Controversy – Ronuk Gadamsetty, Viraj Gorijala, Veeraj Sirivolu, Neil Vellanki, Dulles High School

Junior Group Exhibit

1st Place: Unimaginable, Unstoppable, Unforgettable: Redefining Power at Sea – Nirja Khemka, Shaurya Khemka, Fort Settlement Middle School
2nd Place: The Aftermath of Watergate – Chinmayi Konduru, Mihika Pandit, Garcia Middle School

Senior Group Exhibit

3rd Place: Haitian Revolution – Emily Chang, Karim Kamadia, Austin High School

Junior Group Performance

2nd Place: The History of Sugar Land – Landon Baldwin, Keiry Bardales, Mugdha Katkuri, Siana Pathania, Thea Samuelson, Quail Valley Middle School

Senior Group Performance

1st Place: Mind of a Nation – Zachariah Cervantez, Maggie Gulihur, Koi Harding, Alexis Navarro, Charlotte Young, Dulles High School
2nd Place: From Rumor to Revolution: How Spindletop Challenged Standard Oil’s Control – Minyang Chi, Daniel Graebe, Isabela Teixeira, Clements High School
3rd Place: Galileo on Trial: A Revolution in Motion – Ayomikun Ayinde, Kyra Dang, Jacob DiAngelo, Juan Diego Ramirez, Travis High School

Junior Group Website

2nd Place: The Print Revolution (From Ink to Impact: How Printing Transformed the World) – Svar Koka, Aarin Mehta, Pradhyun Pola, Sartartia Middle School

Senior Group Website

1st Place: Unknown No. 95: The Bitter Story of the Sugar Land 95 – Sienna Cheek, Rachael Clark, Sadhana Suresh, Clements High School