Kentucky Historical Society
KHS Announces 2011 District Three Kentucky History Day Winners
FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 30, 2011)— Students from around the Commonwealth were rewarded for their efforts at the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) 2011 Kentucky History Day (KHD) district three contest at the Frazier International History Museum in Louisville on Saturday, March 26.
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.
Eighteen schools, seven counties and 109 students participated in the district three 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:
Carroll County
• Michelle Moore, Cierra Drake and Ruby Avila—Carroll County Middle School, second place, junior group documentary, “Women’s Rights”
Clark County*
• Hailey Barnett, Makenna Denham, Rachel Sames and Sierra White—Clark County Middle School, first place, junior group performance, “Mockinbird: The Banning of a Gem in the Civil Rights Movement”
Fayette County*
• Nia Johnson—Tates Creek High School, second place, senior individual exhibit, “Freedom’s Cry: The Camp Nelson Refugee Debate”
Jefferson County
• Harper Murrell—The Academy for Individual Excellence, first place, junior paper, “Coercing the Corsairs: America’s Debate Concerning the Barbary Pirates”
• Shelly Zhou—duPont Manual High School, first place, senior paper, “The 1978 Camp David Accords”
• James McLean Long—duPont Manual High School, second place, senior paper, “The Munich Conference”
• Mary Richardson—duPont Manual High School, third place, senior paper, “The Science of Life: The Lasting Debate Over Artificial Life”
• Serena Lian—duPont Manual High School, fourth place, senior paper, “Poverty: A Cause and an Effect of Child Marriage in Islamic Communities”
• Tyler Glass—The Academy for Individual Excellence, fifth place, senior paper, “Silent Night during a Deadly War”
• Evan Allgeier and Samantha Warford—The Academy for Individual Excellence, first place, senior group performance, “Wet vs. Dry: The Debate on Alcohol Prohibition”
• Michael Black, Dean Mikesell and Grant Combs—The Academy for Individual Excellence, third place, senior group performance, “Good Friday Belfast Brigade Agreement”
• Alexandra Bewley—Olmsted Academy South, first place, junior individual documentary, “Nuclear Fallout”
• Abby Coomer—The Academy for Individual Excellence, first place, senior individual documentary, “The Long Road to School”
• Nick Tehrani—The Academy for Individual Excellence, second place, senior individual documentary, “The Iranian Revolution”
• Tom Stevenson—Stevenson Homeschool, first place, junior individual website, “From Aristotle to Galileo: A Change in World Views”
• Clare Egan—Egan Homeschool, second place, junior individual website, “Out the Window”
• Natalie Barbour—Olmsted Academy South, fourth place, junior individual website, “Malcom vs. Martin”
• Alexus Wooten and Seirra West—Olmsted Academy South, first place, junior group website, “Mixed Gender vs. Single Gender Schools”
• Alaine Gerughty—duPont Manual High School, first place, senior individual website, “Hidden Stereotypes in Children’s Cartoons”
• Kelly Pfister and Rupika Narain—duPont Manual High School, first place, senior group website, “Breaker Boys”
• SanJun Park and Jesse Zhang—duPont Manual High School, second place, senior group website, “Google vs. China”
• Noah Hiner—Hiner Homeschool, first place, senior individual exhibit, “John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial”
• Samantha Murrell—The Academy for Individual Excellence, second place, junior individual exhibit, “Indian Boarding Schools”
• Phoenix Delaney—Maple Grove Academy, third place, junior individual exhibit, “The Role of the Kentucky Kernal in the Integration of UK Athletics”
• J. Kevin Combs—Combs Homeschool, fourth place, junior individual exhibit, “In the Shadow of WWII: Diplomacy and the Cuban Missile Crisis”
• Tyail Moore, Shameka Cummings and Keeana Brooks—Olmsted Academy South, first place, junior group exhibit, “Jim Crow Laws: The Debate”
• Claudia Lindley, Robianna VanMoon and Adrienne Griffith—Olmsted Academy South, second place, junior group exhibit, “Little Rock Nine”
• Imari Wilson—duPont Manual High School, third place, senior individual exhibit, “Different Century, New Improvements”
• Emilee Ward—duPont Manual High School, fifth place, senior individual exhibit, “The Lincoln Douglas Debates”
• Yuyao Ding, Zoe Schaver and Eliza Scruton—duPont Manual High School, first place, senior group exhibit, “The Senkaku Islands Dispute”
• Joseph Demarco and Mathin Kukkala—duPont Manual High School, second place, senior group exhibit, “Sir Francis Drake: Altering the Course of History”
Kenton County*
• Leigha Moore, Anna Gregory and Emily Witt—Notre Dame Academy, fourth place, senior group performance, “Women in Society: Wollstonecraft vs. Rousseau”
• Hannah Regan and Monica McFadden—Notre Dame Academy, fifth place, senior group exhibit, “End of Japanese Isolationism: Fuels Successes and Failures”
Shelby County
• Jeron Russell—Shelby County East Middle School, second place, junior paper, “The Fight in the Black Patch: Passion vs. Power”
• Katelyn Rice—Shelby County West Middle School, third place, junior paper, “Tobacco in Kentucky: Good vs. Evil”
• Logan Johnson—Shelby County High School, second place, senior individual website, “TPAJAX: A Root of Middle-Eastern Terror”
• Joshua Rice—Martha Layne Collins High School, third place, senior individual website, “Brown Vs. Board”
Spencer County
• Corey Thomas, Abigail Rarden, Cameron Bishop, Ben Whiteley and Cory Howard—Spencer County High School, second place, senior group performance, “Successful Diplomacy: Reagan and the Cold War”
• Jacob DeRudder and Noah Dockery—Spencer County Middle School, first place, junior group documentary, “Jackie Robinson”
• Allen Oder and Joseph Snider—Spencer County High School, first place, senior group documentary, “The Napster Debate”
• Heidi Arbuckle and Tevis DeZern—Spencer County High School, second place, senior group documentary, “The New Deal”
• Lauren Henderson, Jessica Klefot and Sarah Bowman—Spencer County High School, third place, senior group documentary, “The Holocaust: The Many Faces of Hitler”
• Lili Hanik—Spencer County Middle School, third place, junior individual website, “2012: The Final Countdown”
• Hunter Detrich and Dakota Waldridge—Spencer County Middle School, second place, junior group website, “The Fight for Civil Rights”
• Tanner Goodlett—Spencer County Middle School, fifth place, junior individual exhibit, “Reality Strikes”
• Aaron Shindlebower—Spencer County High School, first place, senior individual exhibit, “Hiroshima”
• Courtney Cox—Spencer County High School, fourth place, senior individual exhibit, “The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Debate Within”
• Caleb Fulkerson, Victoria Kellogg and Layla Kellogg—Spencer County High School, third place, senior group exhibit, “Genocide”
• Rachel Keys and Katharina Meissnitzer—Spencer County High School, fourth place, senior group exhibit, “The Treaty of Versailles: Failures in Diplomacy?”
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.
*Clark, Kenton and Fayette Counties participate in other districts, but some students were not able to compete at their district competition.
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