FRESNO (KMJ) — Four Central Unified students want your help to get their exhibit to the Smithsonian.
Their piece, “Breaking the Glass Ceiling – Women Moving From Confinement to Liberation,” received the Championship Award at this year’s California History Day. That propels the team to the national competition at the University of Maryland. It was also selected for display it at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
“We weren’t planning to make it that far,” reveals team-member and Central High School – West Campus junior Simran Kaur. “We were just trying to get our topic across to people and I’ve been doing it since freshman year….to now have it going to Washington D.C. and knowing that all these people in the country are going to be viewing it and listening to what we’re taking a stand for ourselves as students – it’s very very exciting.”
The exhibit itself is designed to show how the women’s rights movement began, and how it relates to the modern world.
“I came across the women’s liberation movement, which happened in the 1960s and 70s, and that’s when you saw that women were trying to break this cultural stereotype,” adds Kaur. “That women are supposed to be staying in the house and working with children.”
She says she was ecstatic to hear of their success, and it’s proof that their hard work has paid off.
But there is still a bit more to do. To help makit to the East Coast they’re asking for the public’s help via an online GoFundMe page (a link to that can be found clicking here).
“It costs a lot of money to be shipping that project, tickets, and staying, so we’re really really trying to push this GoFundMe that we created as students and we’re trying to raise our own money for this.”
Kaur reveals that the team wants to use the funds improve their exhibit ahead of the national competition.
“We really want to have this experience of going. It’s once in a lifetime.”
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