Kentucky Historical Society
KHS Announces 2011 District Six Kentucky History Day Winners
FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 25, 2011)— Students from around the Commonwealth were rewarded for their efforts at the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) 2011 Kentucky History Day (KHD) district six contest at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in downtown Frankfort on Saturday, March 19.
KHD is part of the National History Day program, which is an annual, year-long program designed to promote teaching and learning history in America’s schools. Students analyze the historical significance of their topics and present conclusions in dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries, websites and research papers to audiences throughout the country. The theme for this year’s contest is “Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures and Consequences.”
“A recent national study confirmed that students who participate in National History Day outperform their non-participating peers in all subjects, not just history. These students are better-prepared for college, are better writers and researchers, are more confident in their abilities, and outperform their peers on standardized testing in all subject areas. Also, by researching into the past, they become enthusiastic about history and its relevance to their present lives,” said Tim Talbott, KHS education project assistant and KHD coordinator.
Four schools, two counties and 68 students participated in the district seven contest in hopes of advancing to the state contest on April 30 at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort. The top three students in each category received a medal, while all finishers in the top five received recognition and will advance to the state competition.
Winner(s), School, Place, Division, Category and Project:
Boone County
• Travis Wilson—Grace Christian Homeschool, third place, senior paper, “Harry S. Truman and the Atomic Bomb”
Fayette County
• Eric Lowry—Winburn Middle School, first place, junior paper, “Ping Pong Diplomacy: Challenges and Successes”
• Ryan Hellyer—Winburn Middle School, second place, junior paper, “International Rules of War: The Geneva Conventions”
• Christopher Browning—Winburn Middle School, third place, junior paper, “Censorship: The Debate over Music Labeling”
• Malvika Singhal—Winburn Middle School, fourth place, junior paper, “A Revolutionary Debate after a Revolution”
• Ben Xie—Winburn Middle School, fifth place, junior paper, “Nixon’s Visit to China: A Whole New Game”
• Nathan Russell—homeschool, second place, senior paper, “Debate and Civil Rights: Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Major League Baseball”
• Matthew Russell—homeschool, fifth place, senior paper, “We choose to go to the Moon”
• Brianna Mayo and Dimitri Leggas—Winburn Middle School, first place, junior group performance, “Language is a Tool to Conceal the Truth”
• Jacob Ferguson—Winburn Middle School, first place, junior individual documentary, “Treaty of Versailles”
• Myles Murray—Winburn Middle School, second place, junior individual documentary, “Education: A Civil Right”
• Hunter Jelf—Winburn Middle School, third place, junior individual documentary, “The Controversy of Iwo Jima”
• Maranda Gaines and Chelsea Southworth-- Winburn Middle School, first place, junior group documentary, “Segregation in Schools: Separate but not Equal”
• Andrew Tapia and Ben Gardner—Winburn Middle School, second place, junior group documentary, “Pearl Harbor”
• Thomas Huang, Thomas Kenny, Kai Nicholls and Ethan Peck—Winburn Middle School, third place, junior group documentary, “Standoff: Cold War in Cuba”
• Anya Slepyan and Cameron Walton—Winburn Middle School, fourth place, junior group documentary, “ERA: Equality for All”
• Anne Marie Coriale—Winburn Middle School, first place, junior individual website, “Japan, USA & the Atomic Bomb”
• Stephen Perry—Winburn Middle School, second place, junior individual website, “Removal of Natives”
• Daniel Ma—Winburn Middle School,” third place, junior individual website, “Treaty of Versailles: Peace Treaty or War Instigator”
• Ronit Kar, Nisarg Patil and Gavin Lynn Sullivan—Winburn Middle School, first place, junior group website, “The Dropping Decision”
• Jasa Harris and Kaylyn Torkelson-- Winburn Middle School, second place, junior group website, “A Fearless Indomitable Womanhood, A Fearless Indomitable Race”
• Alex Wyllie and Jesse Knopka-- Winburn Middle School, third place, junior group website, “Treaty of Versailles: The Treaty that Changed the World”
• Lydia Howlett, Leah Johnston and Ashley Turner-- Winburn Middle School, fourth place, junior group website, “Nature vs. Nurture”
• Madison Wheeler and Daria Kolyaskina-- Winburn Middle School, fifth place, junior group website, “Vienna 1814: The Diplomacy of Napoleon’s Conquerors”
• Elizabeth Minor—Henry Clay High School, first place, senior individual website, “Henry Clay: Saving the Nation with Domestic Diplomacy”
• Jacob Cottrell-- Winburn Middle School, first place, junior individual exhibit, “You Have the Right to Remain Silent”
• Julia Wilson-- Winburn Middle School, second place, junior individual exhibit, “Giving Women a Voice: Women’s Suffrage 1848-1920”
• Corrie Hunter-- Winburn Middle School, third place, junior individual exhibit, “Separate but Equal? The Little Rock Nine and School Integration”
• Millie Ma-- Winburn Middle School, fourth place, junior individual exhibit, “Nixon’s China Game: A Secret Diplomatic Breakthrough”
• Erin Holbrook-- Winburn Middle School, fifth place, junior individual exhibit, “A War on Disease or a War on Vaccine”
• Joshua Strange and Avery Brown-- Winburn Middle School, first place, junior group exhibit, “The Ending of WWII: The Bombs that Changed History, for Better or Worse”
• Janet Guo, Ji-Hae Kim, Jasmine Liu, Saikeerthi Naidu and Samantha McGehee-- Winburn Middle School, second place, junior group exhibit, “Less is More, or is it?”
• Kayla Beebout, Angelina Shi, Olivia McCrary and Aditi Deshpande-- Winburn Middle School, third place, junior group exhibit, “Andrew Jackson vs. the Native Americans”
• Sophia Daniel and Hannah Day-- Winburn Middle School, fourth place, junior group exhibit, “The Separation of Church and State”
• RG Humphreys, Jonathan Tungate, Garrett Uebelhor and Karl Werner-- Winburn Middle School, fifth place, junior group exhibit, “Bottoms Up…Maybe Not”
Kenton County
• Paige Brewer—Notre Dame Academy, first place, senior paper, “Kruschev: A Lesson in Diplomatic Contradictions”
• Abby Armbruster, Catriona Shaughnessy, Emily Koors, Giannina Rokivic, Anna Schaffstein—Notre Dame Academy, senior group performance, “Aristotle vs. Galileo
• Rebecca Wuestefeld—Notre Dame Academy, fourth place, senior paper, “The Formation of the United Nations”
Pendleton County
• Mikinley Grace Lustenberg, Morgan McKinney—Phillip A. Sharp Middle School, second place, junior group performance, “Susan B. Anthony: Courage and Conviction”
• Allison Lenox, Holley Hart—Phillip A. Sharp Middle School, third place, junior group performance, “The Journey to Free the Slaves”
• Susie Wright—Phillip A. Sharp Middle School, fourth place, junior individual website, “Brown vs. Board of Education”
• Seth Longworth—Phillip A. Sharp Middle School, fifth place, junior individual website, “Education in Kentucky History”
Shelby County
• Ethan Russell—Shelby County High School, first place, senior individual performance, “Paving the Way for a Gold Standard”
The National History Day program culminates with the national competition at the University of Maryland each June.
For more information on KHD, visit www.history.ky.gov/kjhs and click National History Day, or contact Tim Talbott at 502-564-1792.
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