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Texas History Day Winners 2004

Texas History Day, May 7-8, 2004

Senior Division Medalists
Junior Division Medalists
Special Awards Winners

SENIOR DIVISION MEDALISTS

HISTORICAL PAPERS
	Student	School/Teacher	Entry Title
1^st	Rebecca Hammann	Carroll High School, Corpus Christi Suzanne Ransleben	The Shot "Heard Round the World" - Spindletop and the Dawn of the Petroleum Era
2^nd	Jamila Phillips	North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins	In the Zone: Exploration, Encounter and Exchange of Standard Time
3^rd	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
4^th	Cicily Smith	Home School, Fort Worth Gloria Smith	A Class Action: L. Clifford Davis and the Integration Crisis of Mansfield High
*INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS*
1^st	Yvanna Navarro	Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson & Tom Welsh	The Quest for Equal Rights: Jim Crow Encounters The Will of The People
2^nd	Abby Coldren	Vines High School, Plano Tamara Harrington	The Salem Witchcraft Trials: The Encounters of Two Communities
3^rd	Brady Pitcher	North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins	A Deadly Encounter: Galveston and the 1900 Hurricane
4^th	Brenda Montes	John Jay Science and Engineering Academy, San Antonio Ann Still	"Blazing Westward! The Lewis and Clark Expedition"
GROUP EXHIBITS
1^st	Ethan Wilson, Marlene Morales, Christopher Morales	Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson	The Open Range, Cattle and a Mission: Our Ranching Heritage
2^nd	Samuel Rauch, Adarsh Goud, Jafar Ayyad, Samuel Friedman	Health Careers High School, San Antonio Rachel Hernandez	Clash of Cultures: The Islamic-Iberian Exchange
3^rd	James Maupin IV, Billy Maupin, April Wright	Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson & Robert Perales	Iron Horse Across America: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
4^th	Nicole Lockhart, Jay Disimoni, Jenna Pergande, Gloria Castorena	Copperas Cove High School, Copperas Cove Dina Williamson	American Espionage
*INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES*
1^st	Keome Rowe	North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins	Encountering Brown v. the Board of Education
2^nd	Rick Saenz	Falfurrias High School, Falfurrias Sharon Wilson	Don Cristobal Colon: Exploring the Unexplored
3^rd	Cassandra Coleman	Carroll High School, Corpus Christi, Garland Suzanne Ransleben	Sigmund Freud: The Man and His Ego
4^th	Christina Jones	Robert E. Lee Freshman High School, Midland Cindy Truitt	All the World's a Stage: The Development of Theatre
*GROUP PERFORMANCES*
1^st	Jennifer Grieger, Katie Unverferth, Allie Chapman, Lauren Atencio	Cy Fair High School, Cypress Royce Black	Grave Memories: Encountering the Black Death in Medieval Europe
2^nd	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
3^rd	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
4^th	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*
1^st	John Laue	Cinco Ranch High School, Katy	More Than Meets The Eye: Eisenhower & CORONA
2^nd	Dadren Babineaux	Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown	The Great Migration--The Exchange of Jazz
3^rd	Justin Thompson	North Garland High School, Garland Sherry Mullins	Sharing the Stars: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange and the Race for Space.
4^th	Chris Kominczak	Cypress Falls High School, Houston Meg Moore	FDR's Court-Packing Encounter
*GROUP DOCUMENTARIES*
1^st	Daniel Bui, Tri Thoi	Eisenhower High School, Houston Debra Brown	The Clash of the Communists
2^nd	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
3^rd	Elizabeth King, Cynthia Barrios	Health Careers High School, San Antonio Jennifer Bishop	Borrowing Civilization: How Writing and Religion Came to Early Japan
4^th	Matt Garcia, Shamiq Islam	Carroll High School, Corpus Christi Suzanne Ransleben	Encountering the Isthmus: The Panamanian Exchange

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JUNIOR DIVISION MEDALISTS

HISTORICAL PAPERS
	Student	School/Teacher	Entry Title

1^st	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
2^nd	Sylvia Sun	T.H. Rogers School, Houston Janie McPhail	The Road to China: Nixon's Diplomatic Adventure
3^rd	Alissa Rhodes	Horace Mann Jr. School, Baytown Naomi Liggett	The Last Indian Captive--The Story of Herman Lehmann
4^th	Daniel Barina	Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe	The Wright Stuff
*INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS*
1^st	Justin Brudin	Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett	The Great Uranium Rush
2^nd	Melissa Mahoney	Goodson Middle School, Cypress Terry Noe	"It's a Geyser" The Boom that Shook the World
3^rd	Timothy Magness	Gentry Junior School, Baytown Hal Davis	Legacy of Lafitte
4^th	Lauren Cason	Spring Branch Middle School, Houston Elenor Dickey	Acupuncture: East Meets West
*GROUP EXHIBITS*
1^st	Joshua O'Banion, Michal Winston	Gentry Junior School, Baytown Jenice Coffey	John James Audubon: A Bird's Eye View
2^nd	Daniel Garrett, Brandy Parker, Amanda Garrison	Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett	Harriman's Vacation
3^rd	Lauren Prater, Kyley Pollok	Lavernia Elementary, Lavernia Boyd Harrison	Polio: The Crippling Crisis
4^th	Spenser Tiller, Michael Kirch	Gentry Junior School, Baytown Jenice Coffey	Apollo 11 "Houston..., The Eagle Has Landed."
*INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES*
1^st	Andrew Wortham	La Vernia Junior High, La Vernia Don Wildenstein	Through a Puppet's Eyes
2^nd	Robert Bradfield	Lake Air Middle School, Waco Denise M. Bell	Rotten Meat, The Common Rabble, And The Rise Of The British Spice Trade
3^rd	Monica Fuentes	Harry H. Rogers Middle School, San Antonio Mary Proby	Sacajawea: Voyage of Discovery
4^th	Emily Hutto	Teague, Humble Kimberley Chandler	The Forgotten 13
*GROUP PERFORMANCES*
1^st	Whitney Gafford, Shawn McCully, Amber Essary	Lorena Middle School, Lorena Bruce McCarver	Drought, Depression, Disaster: Voices from the Dust
2^nd	David Thomson, Daniel Berkowitz, Justin Barfield	Baytown Junior High, Baytown Rebecca Longorio	The California Gold Rush
3^rd	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
4^th	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*
1^st	Christopher Croft	Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett	Battle for the Heavens
2^nd	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
3^rd	Matthew Winkler	Holub Middle School, Houston Cindi Payne	...Then They Were Gone
4^th	Stern Yeh	Holub Middle School, Houston Cindi Payne	The Opium Wars
*GROUP DOCUMENTARIES*
1^st	Austin Glamser, William Trotty	Drew Academy, Houston Katherine Montenegro	Wakon Yosai,Yamato Damashi; Japanese Spirit, Western Things
2^nd	Thomas Spence, Lauren Jones, Haley Glidewell, Megan Gaines, Julia Leffingwell	Shackelford Jr. high, Arlington Lauri Rule	Exploring the Lines of Deception: Bay of Pigs
3^rd	Briana Ellingson, Austin Fullmer, Gabriela Guerrero, Kara Kemp	Copperas Cove Junior High School, Copperas Cove Danny Corbett	Two Presidents, Two Programs, One Hope
4^th	Matthew Shearer, Ryan Woods	Sartartia Middle School, Sugar Land Jimmy Brooks	An Exploration of Asperger's Syndrome: Two Friends Encounter History in the Making

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SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

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*
1^st	Courtney Coleman	Parker Imtermediate, Houston Ashley Pryor	Tuskegee Airman: African-American Pioneers in Aviation
2^nd	Meryl Kizzee	MacArthur High School, Houston Bruce Donohoe	To Boldly Go . . . Mae Jemison Discovers the Sky is Not the Limit
3^rd	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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