These Portland students are heading to Maryland to exhibit their skills of being young historians.

Of nearly 230 students who participated in the Oregon History Day contest in April, 47 qualified for the national contest, with 17 hailing from Portland.

From Ashland to John Day to Beaverton to Grants Pass, all cities from across the state, middle and high school students participated in the program, creating documentaries, exhibits, papers, performances and more, diving deep into history.

Amy McBride, an educator at ACCESS Academy, said in a news release, “They remember the work and benefits of History Day for the rest of their lives!”

The National History Day program, which Oregon History Day is an affiliate of, is a student-directed, project-based, interdisciplinary learning program. Young historians craft projects based on an annual theme.

This year’s theme was “Rights and Responsibilities in History.”

These are the Portland students and their winning projects who are invited to the national contest:

• Nathanial Wang, “The Macartney Embassy: The Opening To Sovereignty Infringements,” ACCESS Academy.
• Alyssa Su and Dahlia Cunningham, “Habitats Vs. Humans: The Story of the Spotted Owl,” ACCESS Academy.
• Kai Benson and Xavier Jin, “The Race to Sequence the Human Genome: Rights and Responsibilities in Modern Genomics,” ACCESS Academy.
• Lucy Rogoway, “The Stamp Act of 1765: Lost Rights and Abandoned Responsibilities in the British Colonies,” ACCESS Academy.
• Rosalind D’Avolio Henderson and Sage Flood-Wakerlin, “The Corporate Poisoning of America: Robert Bilott’s Fight Against DuPont and Their Chemicals,” ACCESS Academy.
• Juniper Dankovchik and Thea Pulokas, “The Pact of Forgetting: A Breach of Rights in Spain,” ACCESS Academy.
• Gabriella Kazarinoff and Lyric Love-Geiger, “Nature and Society Versus Vanport,” ACCESS Academy.
• Hayden Kuhn-Wilken and Sydney Chaddick, “Paying your Penance: How Ireland’s Asylums Secretly Abused Thousands of Women,” ACCESS Academy.
• Derica Theobald and Lucas Zhang, “Unearthing the Forgotten: The Erasure and Remembrance of Block 14,” Lincoln High School and Caitlin Gabel.
• Auryn Voss, “Æthelflæd, Myrcna Hlæfdige. The Woman Who Took Derby from the Danelaw,” McDaniel High School.

Gabriella and Lyric won a special Black History in Oregon Award. Derica and Lucas won a special Asian History in Oregon Award.

The National Contest takes place June 8-12 at University of Maryland, where 3,000 students will compete.

A list of full results can be found online.