Texas History Day, May 9-10, 2003
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Texas History Day, May 9-10, 2003
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 | Rigoberta Menchú and the Rights of the Indigenous People of Guatemala | |
2nd | Somala Muhammed | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | To THe Victor Goes the Responsibility | |
3rd | Casper Woroszylo | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | Solidarity: The Polish Spirit | |
4th | Ashley Johnson | Vines High School, Plano Tamara Harrington | Rights and Responsibility | |
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS | ||||
1st | Sarah Schurer | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | Swiss Armed Neutrality | |
2nd | Jay DiSimoni | Copperas Cove High School, Copperas Cove Dina Williamson | Immortal Voices | |
3rd | Kristen Evans | Ross Sterling High School, Baytown Hal Davis and Jenice Coffey | It's a Toxic Day in the Neighborhood: The Story of Lois Gibbs | |
4th | Ethan Wilson | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson | Casa Dividida: Hispanics in Blue and Gray | |
GROUP EXHIBITS | ||||
1st | Gabriel Villarreal, Ana Palacios, Kristie Vela | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Robert Perales and Sharon Wilson | We Shall Overcome: The Battle for the Ballot | |
2nd | Vanessa Garza, Tina Nguyen, Tiffany Dinh, Ben Pham, Catherine Tran | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | Through the Lies of Yellow Journalism | |
3rd | Cleotilde Campos, Joe Garcia, Ashley Perez | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson | Texas Groundwater Law: Rights vs. Responsibilities | |
4th | Katie Nelson, Jessica Ricke, Chelsea Lyons, Jillian Bontke, Alyssa Rodriguez | Jersey Village High School, Houston Lisa McNeill | Writes v. Responsibilities: Supreme Court Supports School Censorship | |
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES | ||||
1st | Martin Nguyen | Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown | The Hurt That Never Ends: An American Holocaust | |
2nd | Jaime Espensen-Sturges | McAllen Memorial High School, McAllen LeAnna Morse | Writing on a Clean Slate: Women During the Civil War | |
3rd | Maysie Gosselin | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | Sarah Bagley and the Women's Labor Unions | |
4th | Riana Canetti-Rios | Booker T. Washington High School, Houston Lela Roberts | Hear Me! The Koasati Story | |
GROUP PERFORMANCES | ||||
1st | Ivah Cantu, James Maupin, Nancy Pena, Ryan Perez | Falfurrias High School Falfurrias Imelda Cantu, Middy Wilkinson, and Sharon Wilson | The Panic Broadcast of 1938: A Responsible Right to Touch That Dial | |
2nd | Lindsay Ramos, Christopher Ramos, Roberto Benavides,Sarah Benavides | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Eric Ramos and Sharon Wilson | "Stop Them Damn Pictures": The Influence of Political Cartoons in History | |
3rd | Crystal Cho, Eva Cheng, Rebecca Le, Ly Pham | Eisenhower Ninth Grade Center, Houston Stephen Martin | Painting the Town Red | |
4th | Mathew Ganceres, Leah George, Ramiro Guerrero, Lavonya McAlister, Bruce Moss | Copperas Cove High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett | Freedom Is a Constant Struggle | |
INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
1st | Daniel Compton | Aldine Ninth Grade School, Houston Bill Danes | The Port Chicago Boys | |
2nd | Thomas Ash | Lamar High School, Arlington Lauri Rule | A Nation's Promise, A Responsibility Denied | |
3rd | Brandon Pruski | East Central High School, San Antonio Belinda Markovich | Rights and Responsibilities of Creating and Using the Atomic Bomb | |
4th | Ankit Shah | Carroll High School, Corpus Christi Suzanne Ransleben | Fight for Rights: Government Responsibility and Civil Rights in South Africa | |
GROUP DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
1st | Chelsea Kindred, Diana Rocha, Edward Libranda, Ricky Patel | Nimitz High School, Houston Barbi Petty and Rick Cheplick | . . . And God Created Man | |
2nd | Glen Rhodes, Chris Cha, Dake Weng, Thomas Douglas | Cypress Falls High School Houston Meg Moore | The G.I. Bill of Rights | |
3rd | Niels Joaquin, Douglas Ansel, Nicholas Cox | Carroll High School, Corpus Christi Suzanne Ransleben | Holy Smokes: The Government's Responsibility to Balance the Rights of the Tobacco Industry and Its Consumers | |
4th | Drew Stone, Chris Kominczak | Cypress Falls High School, Houston Amy Thibaut | Strangers at Home: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Japanese-American Internment |
HISTORICAL PAPERS | ||||
Student | School/Teacher | Entry Title | ||
1st | David Toney | Gentry Junior High School, Baytown Jenice Coffey | Eminent Domain: From Use to Abuse | |
2nd | Travis Granger | Hoffman Middle School, Houston Beth Crowley | In Search of Balance | |
3rd | Jonathan Briseno | Rudder Middle School, San Antonio Gene Alber | Intervention: Is it Our Responsibility? | |
4th | Matthew Delgado | Thorton Middle School, Katy Cassie Johnson | A. Philip Randolph: Fight or Be Slaves | |
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS | ||||
1st | Thomas Miller | Lake Air Middle School, Waco Karen McDonald | Rights Trampled, Responsibilities Ignored: Alabama Coushatta Tribe Seeks Justice for Loss of Aboriginal Lands | |
2nd | Stephen Pulvirent | Murchison Middle School, Austin Michele Mauldin | Power to the Press | |
3rd | Lauren Evers | Weis Middle School, Galveston Mrs. Honnoll | Cherokee Removal: The Tragic Trail of Broken Promises | |
4th | Julie Bartrip | Baytown Junior High School, Baytown Pat Kana | Brownwood: From Subdivision to Nature Center | |
GROUP EXHIBITS | ||||
1st | Daniel Garrett, Brandy Parker | Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett | Behind the Barbed Wire | |
2nd | Courtney Weiser, Tiffany Van | Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe | The Face of the Enemy | |
3rd | Jason Benham, Drew Carini | Lorena Middle School, Lorena Pat Browder | Behind Barbed Wire | |
4th | Joshua O'Banion, Ryan Williams | Gentry Middle School, Baytown Hal Davis | Pioneer of the Panhandle: Charles Goodnight | |
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES | ||||
1st | Andrew Wortham | La Vernia Middle School, La Vernia Don Wildenstein | Its Debatable: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Sparking the Debate, Abolitionist's Responsibilities vs. States Rights | |
2nd | Colin Powell | Lake Air Middle School, Waco Karen McDonald | A Republic of Rogues: Pirate Democracy On the Seven Seas | |
3rd | Hunter Nelson | Spring Forest Middle School, Houston Maurine Richter | Rights & Responsibilities: The Crusade Against Child Labor | |
4th | Navneet Setlur | Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe | Mahatma: The Great Soul | |
GROUP PERFORMANCES | ||||
1st | Whitney Gafford, Shawn McCully, Amber Essary | Lorena Middle School, Lorena Pat Browder | The Cries of The Children | |
2nd | Cassie Walker, Allison Marshall | Lanier Middle School, Houston Cheryl Grimm | Fannie Lou Homer: African American Voting Rights | |
3rd | Renee Reinecke, Maria Cerana, Taylor Camden | Spring Forest Middle School, Houston Maurine Richter | Thursday's Daughters: Women on the Job 24/7 | |
4th | Braden Smith, Melissa Gunn, Mason Walker, Kayla Valis | Lorena Middle School, Lorena Pat Browder | Vote America! Its Your Right and Your Responsibility | |
INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
1st | Alexandra Calvert | Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe | Child Labor: A Continuing Evil | |
2nd | Bryan Smith | Parker Intermediate, Houston Ashley Pryor | Interned Americans | |
3rd | Peter Schulte | Sartartia Middle School, Sugar Land Kevin Winter | The Explosion Felt 'Round the World | |
4th | Victoria Espensen-Sturges | Cathey Middle School, McAllen M. Stockton | May 4: Forgotten Responsibility, Infringed Rights | |
GROUP DOCUMENTARIES | ||||
1st | Austin Glamser, Ernesto Reyes | Drew Academy, Houston Debbie Brown and Katherine Montenegro | To Inoculate or Not to Inoculate | |
2nd | Kevyn Jackson, Shannon Allport, Matthew Chapa | Baytown Middle School, Baytown Pat Kana | From Many, One: The Rights and Responsibilities of Religion in School | |
3rd | Jena DiSimoni, Heather Pergande, Courtney McCune | S.C. Lee Middle School, Copperas Cove Dina Williamson | Her Light Still Shines | |
4th | Huy Nguyen, Angie Wong, Benson Thottiyil, Azhar Merchant | Holub Middle School, Houston Rick Madsen | Miranda v. Arizona: The Crime That Changed American Justice |
AMERICAN HISTORY INNOVATION AWARD | ||||
Placement | Student/School | Teacher | Entry Title | |
Junior Division | Damian Balmforth | Ross Middle School, El Paso Cynthia Humphries | Individual Exhibit: Educating a Nation: Taking the Responsibility, Horace Mann, and the Education Reformers | |
Senior Division | Amber Todora | John Jay High School, San Antonio Ann Still | Individual Exhibit: Clawing Out Cruelty: The Fight for Animal Rights | |
INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES AWARD | ||||
Junior Division | Ryan Williams, Joshua O'Banion | Gentry Middle School, Baytown Hal Davis | Group Exhibit: Pioneer of the Panhandle: Charles Goodnight | |
Senior Division | Ryan Saenz | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson | Individual Exhibit: Their Rights . . . My Responsibility: Dr. Hector P. Garcia | |
JEWISH HISTORY AWARD | ||||
Senior Division | Christine Chacko | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | Historical Paper: Ernestine Louise Powel Rose: Woman Suffragist, Abolitionist, and Jew | |
JANE MCCALLUM WOMEN IN TEXAS HISTORY AWARD | ||||
Junior Division | Sarah Connelly, Brooke West | Heritage Middle School, San Antonio Vangie Bielke | Group Exhibit: Out of the Blue and Into History | |
Senior Division | Melanie Aston, Tara Grigg, Sara Franco | Jersey Village High School, Houston Julie Villarreal and Becky Hawkins | Group Performance: Creating G.I. Jane: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Women's Army Corps | |
ORAL HISTORY AWARD | ||||
Junior Division | Paul Goetze | Clarendon Middle School, Clarendon Kirby Hatley | Individual Performance: R & R Cartoons | |
Senior Division | Stephanie Clark | Cypress Fairbanks High School, Cypress Royce Black | Individual Performance: The Bay of Pigs "Failure" | |
Honorable Mention- Senior Division | Brian Prihoda, Jeromy Thornton, Richard Thomson | Ross Sterling High School, Baytown Jessica Miskell | Group Documentary: The Dream Lives on: Right to Control and Responsibility to Maintain the Panama Canal | |
STUDENT CHOICE EXHIBIT AWARDS | ||||
Junior Division(Tie) | Laura Desrouchers | Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe | Individual Exhibit: The Day the Water Died | |
Junior DivisionTie) | Kayla Kidwell | Trenton ISD, Trenton Carolyn Lambert | Individual Exhibit: Freedom of Religion | |
Senior Division | Gabriel Villarreal, Ana Palacios, Kristie Vela | Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Robert Perales and Sharon Wilson | Group Exhibit: We Shall Overcome: The Battle for the Ballot | |
WILLIE LEE GAY AWARD FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY | ||||
1st | Michael Johnson, Ahmeen Muhammed | Teague Middle School Kim Chandler | Junior Group Exhibit: 40 Acres and A Mule | |
2nd | Emily Brents | Lanier Middle School, Houston Cheryl Grimm | Junior Individual Exhibit: Henry O. Flipper | |
3rd | Michael Vaughn | Lorena Middle School, Lorena Greg Blanchard | Senior Individual Exhibit: America's Darkest Hour: Waco's Greatest Hero | |
4th | Camille Sale | North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins | Senior Individual Exhibit: A Journey Through the NAACP in Texas | |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOLARSHIP | ||||
Senior Division | Nichole Vitucci | Copperas Cove High School, Copperas Cove Dina Williamson | Group Exhibit: A State Born In Strife |