Texas History Day, May 7-8, 2004
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Texas History Day, May 7-8, 2004
Senior Division Medalists
Junior Division Medalists
Special Awards Winners
| HISTORICAL PAPERS | ||||
| Student | School/Teacher | Entry Title | ||
| 1st | Rebecca Hammann | Carroll High School, Corpus Christi Suzanne Ransleben | The Shot "Heard Round the World" - Spindletop and the Dawn of the Petroleum Era | |
| 2nd | Jamila Phillips | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | In the Zone: Exploration, Encounter and Exchange of Standard Time | |
| 3rd | Te-yee Eng | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | The Boxer Rebellion: How Encounters and Exploration into Trade Between China and the West Led to the Exchange of Bullets | |
| 4th | Cicily Smith | Home School, Fort Worth Gloria Smith | A Class Action: L. Clifford Davis and the Integration Crisis of Mansfield High | |
| INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS | ||||
| 1st | Yvanna Navarro | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson & Tom Welsh | The Quest for Equal Rights: Jim Crow Encounters The Will of The People | |
| 2nd | Abby Coldren | Vines High School, Plano Tamara Harrington | The Salem Witchcraft Trials: The Encounters of Two Communities | |
| 3rd | Brady Pitcher | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | A Deadly Encounter: Galveston and the 1900 Hurricane | |
| 4th | Brenda Montes | John Jay Science and Engineering Academy, San Antonio Ann Still | "Blazing Westward! The Lewis and Clark Expedition" | |
| GROUP EXHIBITS | ||||
| 1st | Ethan Wilson, Marlene Morales, Christopher Morales | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson | The Open Range, Cattle and a Mission: Our Ranching Heritage | |
| 2nd | Samuel Rauch, Adarsh Goud, Jafar Ayyad, Samuel Friedman | Health Careers High School, San Antonio Rachel Hernandez | Clash of Cultures: The Islamic-Iberian Exchange | |
| 3rd | James Maupin IV, Billy Maupin, April Wright | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson & Robert Perales | Iron Horse Across America: Building the Transcontinental Railroad | |
| 4th | Nicole Lockhart, Jay Disimoni, Jenna Pergande, Gloria Castorena | Copperas Cove High School, Copperas Cove Dina Williamson | American Espionage | |
| INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES | ||||
| 1st | Keome Rowe | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | Encountering Brown v. the Board of Education | |
| 2nd | Rick Saenz | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson | Don Cristobal Colon: Exploring the Unexplored | |
| 3rd | Cassandra Coleman | Carroll High School, Corpus Christi, Garland Suzanne Ransleben | Sigmund Freud: The Man and His Ego | |
| 4th | Christina Jones | Robert E. Lee Freshman High School, Midland Cindy Truitt | All the World's a Stage: The Development of Theatre | |
| GROUP PERFORMANCES | ||||
| 1st | Jennifer Grieger, Katie Unverferth, Allie Chapman, Lauren Atencio | Cy Fair High School, Cypress Royce Black | Grave Memories: Encountering the Black Death in Medieval Europe | |
| 2nd | Alvin Lam, Alfred Lam, Tri Doan, Nikhil Amin, Steve Rattana | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | The Rise of the Dragon: Boxers, China, and the Foreign Powers | |
| 3rd | Ivah Cantu, Osman Cantu, Juanita Ramos, Christopher De La Garza | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Imelda Cantu, Tom Welsh & Sharon Wilson | Immigrant Voices: Exploring the Land Where Dreams Really Can Come True | |
| 4th | Nabiha Aziz, Eva Cheng, Rebecca Le, Mohamed Mohamed, Ly Pham | Eisenhower Ninth Grade Center, Houston Debra BGrown | Healing the Sick Man of Europe | |
| INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
| 1st | John Laue | Cinco Ranch High School, Katy | More Than Meets The Eye: Eisenhower & CORONA | |
| 2nd | Dadren Babineaux | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | The Great Migration--The Exchange of Jazz | |
| 3rd | Justin Thompson | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | Sharing the Stars: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange and the Race for Space. | |
| 4th | Chris Kominczak | Cypress Falls High School, Houston Meg Moore | FDR's Court-Packing Encounter | |
| GROUP DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
| 1st | Daniel Bui, Tri Thoi | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | The Clash of the Communists | |
| 2nd | Bryan Prihoda, Richard Thomson, Jeromey Thornton | Ross Sterling High School, Baytown, TX Karyn Cabana | "...It was all started by a mouse." Walt Disney's Exploration in Cultural Exchange | |
| 3rd | Elizabeth King, Cynthia Barrios | Health Careers High School, San Antonio Jennifer Bishop | Borrowing Civilization: How Writing and Religion Came to Early Japan | |
| 4th | Matt Garcia, Shamiq Islam | Carroll High School, Corpus Christi Suzanne Ransleben | Encountering the Isthmus: The Panamanian Exchange | |
| HISTORICAL PAPERS | ||||
| Student | School/Teacher | Entry Title | ||
| 1st | Sarah James | Gentry Junior High School, Baytown Jenice Coffey | The Baytown-La Porte Tunnel--From Conception to Destruction: An Experience in Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange | |
| 2nd | Sylvia Sun | T.H. Rogers School, Houston Janie McPhail | The Road to China: Nixon's Diplomatic Adventure | |
| 3rd | Alissa Rhodes | Horace Mann Jr. School, Baytown Naomi Liggett | The Last Indian Captive--The Story of Herman Lehmann | |
| 4th | Daniel Barina | Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe | The Wright Stuff | |
| INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS | ||||
| 1st | Justin Brudin | Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett | The Great Uranium Rush | |
| 2nd | Melissa Mahoney | Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe | "It's a Geyser" The Boom that Shook the World | |
| 3rd | Timothy Magness | Gentry Junior School, Baytown Hal Davis | Legacy of Lafitte | |
| 4th | Lauren Cason | Spring Branch Middle School, Houston Elenor Dickey | Acupuncture: East Meets West | |
| GROUP EXHIBITS | ||||
| 1st | Joshua O'Banion, Michal Winston | Gentry Junior School, Baytown Jenice Coffey | John James Audubon: A Bird's Eye View | |
| 2nd | Daniel Garrett, Brandy Parker, Amanda Garrison | Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett | Harriman's Vacation | |
| 3rd | Lauren Prater, Kyley Pollok | Lavernia Elementary, Lavernia Boyd Harrison | Polio: The Crippling Crisis | |
| 4th | Spenser Tiller, Michael Kirch | Gentry Junior School, Baytown Jenice Coffey | Apollo 11 "Houston..., The Eagle Has Landed." | |
| INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES | ||||
| 1st | Andrew Wortham | La Vernia Junior High, La Vernia Don Wildenstein | Through a Puppet's Eyes | |
| 2nd | Robert Bradfield | Lake Air Middle School, Waco Denise M. Bell | Rotten Meat, The Common Rabble, And The Rise Of The British Spice Trade | |
| 3rd | Monica Fuentes | Harry H. Rogers Middle School, San Antonio Mary Proby | Sacajawea: Voyage of Discovery | |
| 4th | Emily Hutto | Teague, Humble Kimberley Chandler | The Forgotten 13 | |
| GROUP PERFORMANCES | ||||
| 1st | Whitney Gafford, Shawn McCully, Amber Essary | Lorena Middle School, Lorena Bruce McCarver | Drought, Depression, Disaster: Voices from the Dust | |
| 2nd | David Thomson, Daniel Berkowitz, Justin Barfield | Baytown Junior High, Baytown Rebecca Longorio | The California Gold Rush | |
| 3rd | Lauren Cox, Ashley McLendon, Adam Woodward, Trent Jones, Brittney Emerson | Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Stephen Simecek | Under Construction: The Creation of the Information Superhighway | |
| 4th | Elizabeth Abels, Matthew Ziesmer, Prachi Bhawalkar, Kimberly Yeh | Sartartia Middle School, Sugar Land Peter Garcia | World Wide Web, The Three W's That Changed the World | |
| INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
| 1st | Christopher Croft | Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett | Battle for the Heavens | |
| 2nd | Peter Schulte | Sartartia Middle School, Sugar Land Jimmy Brooks | The Real Roots of American Democracy: The Exchange of Ideas Between the Iroquois Indians and Benjamin Franklin | |
| 3rd | Matthew Winkler | Holub Middle School, Houston Cindi Payne | ...Then They Were Gone | |
| 4th | Stern Yeh | Holub Middle School, Houston Cindi Payne | The Opium Wars | |
| GROUP DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
| 1st | Austin Glamser, William Trotty | Drew Academy, Houston Katherine Montenegro | Wakon Yosai,Yamato Damashi; Japanese Spirit, Western Things | |
| 2nd | Thomas Spence, Lauren Jones, Haley Glidewell, Megan Gaines, Julia Leffingwell | Shackelford Jr. high, Arlington Lauri Rule | Exploring the Lines of Deception: Bay of Pigs | |
| 3rd | Briana Ellingson, Austin Fullmer, Gabriela Guerrero, Kara Kemp | Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett | Two Presidents, Two Programs, One Hope | |
| 4th | Matthew Shearer, Ryan Woods | Sartartia Middle School, Sugar Land Jimmy Brooks | An Exploration of Asperger's Syndrome: Two Friends Encounter History in the Making | |
| AMERICAN HISTORY INNOVATION AWARD | ||||
| Placement | Student/School | Teacher | Entry Title | |
| Junior Division | Spenser Tiller, Michael Kirch | Gentry Jr. High, Baytown Jenice Coffey | Apollo 11 "Houston..., The Eagle Has Landed." | |
| Senior Division | Caitlin Vanderbuilt, Caren Collins, Megan Canady, Maegan Ward | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | The Microscope: Exploring a World Within Our Own | |
| INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES AWARD | ||||
| Junior Division | Ravanne Harris | Thornton Middle School, Katy Cassie Johnson | Thinking Like a Woman: Mary Kay Ashe | |
| Senior Division | Ethan Wilson, Marlene Morales, Christopher Morales | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson | The Open Range, Cattle and a Mission: Our Ranching Heritage | |
| JANE MCCALLUM WOMEN IN TEXAS HISTORY AWARD | ||||
| Junior Division | Emily Hutto | Teague Middle School, Houston Kimberley Chandler | The Forgotten 13 | |
| LOCKE LIDDELL & SAPP LLP LEGAL HISTORY AWARD | ||||
| Junior Division | Natalie Carreno | Incarnate Word Middle School, Corpus Christi Trisha Osborne-Kay | Brown vs. the Board of Education | |
| ORAL HISTORY AWARD | ||||
| Junior Division | Nikolas Torres, Randy Wilson, Ernie Urueta, Ernie Martinez, Samuel Gaglio | Terrace Hills Middle School, El Paso Dory Munder | Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Countdown to the Atomic Age | |
| Senior Division | Justin Thompson | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | Sharing the Stars: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange and the Race for Space. | |
| Honorable Mention- Senior Division | Brian Prihoda, Jeromy Thornton, Richard Thomson | Ross Sterling High School, Baytown Karyn Cabana | "...It was all started by a mouse." Walt Disney's Exploration in Cultural Exchange | |
| Honorable Mention- Senior Division | Dadren Babineaux | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | The Great Migration -- The Exchange of Jazz | |
| Honorable Mention- Junior Division | Nolan Mills, Seth Grubb | LaVernia Elementary, La Vernia Boyd Harrison | When Bomb Shelters Were All the Rage | |
| Honorable Mention- Junior Division | Jayde Encalade, Tristen Land | Parker Intermediate, Houston Ashley Prior | It Didn't Happen Overnight | |
| STUDENT CHOICE EXHIBIT AWARDS | ||||
| Junior Division | Spenser Tiller, Michael Kirch | Gentry Jr. high, Baytown Jenice Coffey | Individual Exhibit: The Day the Water Died | |
| Senior Division | Mandy Robertson, Ruth Terry | Trenton High School, Trenton Carolyn Lambert | Group Exhibit: We Shall Overcome: The Battle for the Ballot | |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOLARSHIP | ||||
| Senior Division | Francisco Sanchez | John Jay High School, San Antonio Ann Still | Historical Paper, Chia va Doat: French Colonialism in Vietnam | |
| WILLIE LEE GAY AWARD FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY | ||||
| 1st | Courtney Coleman | Parker Imtermediate, Houston Ashley Pryor | Tuskegee Airman: African-American Pioneers in Aviation | |
| 2nd | Meryl Kizzee | MacArthur High School, Houston Bruce Donohoe | To Boldly Go . . . Mae Jemison Discovers the Sky is Not the Limit | |
| 3rd | Yvanna Navarro | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson & Tom Welsh | The Quest for Equal Rights: Jim Crow Encounters The Will of The People | |
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