West Tennessee History Day
CONGRATULATIONS!
Thank you for making the 2008 West Region competition such a success!
Below are the results from this year's competition
PLEASE NOTE: Only the top three winners from each category will advance to the 2008 Tennessee History Day State Competition
Registration for the state competition will begin around March 6th.
Please refer to the home page for further information

SENIOR WINNERS

Senior Individual Exhibit
1st Place
"Who Owns the Arctic?"
By: Louisa Gietz
School: White Station High School
2nd Place
"Statue of David"
By: Mary Elizabeth Ward
School: St. Georges Independent School
3rd Place
"Trotsky vs. Stalin"
By: Andrew Edelman
School: White Station High School
4th Place (Alternate)
"Pontius Pilate: A Compromise that Changed the Charge"
By: Carolyn Ashmen
School: St. Georges Independent School

Senior Group Exhibit
1st Place
"The Eagle vs. The Dragon: Conflict and Compromise in the Treaty of Kanagawa"
By: Nikki Martinez, Mary Barczak & Anna Cabe
School: St. Benedict at Auburndale
2nd Place
"Molecules or a Higher Power?"
By: Kelsey Cannon & Rachel Porter
School: St. Georges Independent School
3rd Place
"Death, Poverty, and Destruction: The Partition of India"
By: Bhavna Kansal, Sahaj Singh & Alex Arcamuzi
School: White Station High School
4th Place (Alternate)
"The Story Behind the Story: Rasputin & the Romanovs"
By: Lee Blankenship, Aubrey Kearney & Mary Welch
School: White Station High School

Senior Individual Documentary
1st Place
"Suriname: A Piece of Forgotten History"
By: Melissa Swauncy
School: White Station High School

Senior Group Documentary
1st Place
"Japanese-American Internment: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?"
By: Danielle Kern, Amy Balestrino & Erin O'Conner
School: St. Agnes
2nd Place
"Nathan Bedford Forrest Park: Respected Memorial or Heated Controversy"
By: Samantha Buck, Kristin Bursi, Kristen Alexander & Fallon Bowers
School: St. Agnes
3rd Place
"A Constant Battle: The War on Drugs
By: Michael McDonald, Mat Kenwright & Allie Jones
School: St. Benedict at Auburndale
4th Place (Alternate)
"Russian Revolution: The Bonet Family"
By: Alicia Anderson & Maggie Carlson
School: St. Agnes

Senior Individual Performance
1st Place
"The Space Race"
By: Sanhita Valasareddy
School: White Station High School

Senior Group Performance
1st Place
"Miep Gies: In Times of Conflict, a Woman Unwilling to Compromise Her Ideals"
By: Victoria Burge, Katie Walsh, Katie Mullen & Lauren Christie
School: St. Agnes

Senior Paper
1st Place
"The Space Race"
By: Gina Sun
School: White Station High School
2nd Place
"The Troubles of Ireland and the Belfast Agreement
By: Jacob Geiger
School: White Station
3rd Place
"A Nation's Deadly Addiction: The Chinese Opium Wars"
By: Conner Crawford
School: St. Georges Independent School
4th Place (Alternate)
"The Opium War: Conflict and Compromise
By: Rena Lu
School: White Station High School

Senior Website
1st Place
"Aztecs"
By: Emily Balton, Sarah Stroupe, Bailey McCormick-Olsen & Mallory Barnes
School: St. Agnes
2nd Place
"Martin Luther: The Protestant Reformation"
By: Tim Wright
School: White Station High School

JUNIOR WINNERS

Junior Individual Exhibit
1st Place
"Prohibition"
By: Walker Thompson
School: St. Georges Middle School
2nd Place
"Women's Suffrage: Memphis Delivers"
By: Amanda Bennett
School" St. Georges Middle School
3rd Place
"Fighting on the Home Front: Women's Roles in World War II
By: Taylor See
School: St. Georges Middle School
4th Place (Alternate)
"The Federalists-AntiFederalist Argument: The Ratification of the Constitution
By: Ryan Bitar
School: Lausanne Collegiate School

Junior Group Exhibit
1st Place
"Operation Detachment: Iwo Jima"
By: JP Reeser & Philip Mastemacher
School: St. Georges Middle School
2nd Place
"The Little Rock Nine: Civil Conflict in Our Schools Fifty Years Ago"
By: Mason McGrough & Ryan Grover
School: St. Georges Middle School
3rd Place
"Memphis: Taking Out the Trash"
By: Keira Garrett, Chelsey Burton, Alexia Harden, Ericka Gilland & Alicia Whetstone
School: Snowden School
4th Place (Alternate)
"Watergate"
By: Corky Paul & Mary Lauren Bobango
School: St. Georges Middle School

Junior Individual Documentary
1st Place
"The Peloponnesian War"
By: Celia Healy
School: St. Georges Middle School
2nd Place
"Turbulence in the Control Towers - Conflict without Compromise: The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike of 1981"
By: Andrew McBride
School: St. Georges Middle School
3rd Place
"444 Days"
By: Stephen Hayden
School: St. Georges Independent School
4th Place (Alternate)
"The Compromise of 1850"
By: Matt Farrell
School: St. Georges Middle School

Junior Group Documentary
1st Place
"Stax: The Island of Unity"
By: Marshall Mulherin, Main Bracey, Gates Word & Parker Mulherin
School: Snowden School
2nd Place
"Women's Suffrage from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Perspective"
By: Jamesia Terry & Traci Braden
School: Snowden School
3rd Place
"The Sinking of the Lusitania"
By: Katie Scott Sellars, Cayln Clyburn, Dean Brown & Anna Alford
School: St. Georges Middle School
4th Place (Alternate)
"When One Door Opens Another Closes
By: Tara Schulz & Sarah Shochat
School: St. Georges Middle School

Junior Group Performance
1st Place
"Spy vs. Spy"
By: Drew Dudash, Manoj Gollamudi & Tony Vang
School: Lausanne Collegiate School
2nd Place
"Wild Fire"
By: Carlisia McCord, London Bailey, Kara Skjoldager & Breigh Jones
School: Snowden School

Junior Paper
1st Place
"A Christmas to Remember: The Most Remarkable Compromise of World War I"
By: Emma Sisson
School: St. Georges Middle School
2nd Place
"The Delian League"
By: Madeline McCann
School: St. Georges Middle School
3rd Place
"Marriage - Conflict and Compromise"
By: Deborah Finestone
School: Lausanne Collegiate School
4th Place (Alternate)
"The Deadly Hole"
By: Nkechika Williams
School: Snowden School

Junior Interpretive Website
1st Place
"Battle of Shiloh"
By: Sarah Aldy & Ali Delgado
School: St. Agnes

For further information, please contact one of your regional coordinators:

Angela Martin - ajmartin@memphis.edu - 901-678-2515
Becky Hodges - blhodges@memphis.edu - 901-678-2515
Dr. Margaret Caffrey - mcaffrey@memphis.edu - 901-678-2515
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