Central Virginia Community College

 

Thirty-Four Area Students Advance to Virginia History Day Contest

 

Lynchburg, VA /Media Release/ -- Students from area schools will be joining other middle- and high-school students from across the state to compete at the annual Virginia History Day contest, April 29, in Williamsburg, Virginia. At the day-long event, students will present the research papers, exhibits, documentaries, and performances that earned them top honors at district competition last week at Central Virginia Community College. Winners at Virginia History Day will go on to compete at the national level at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

 

Local students who have been selected include:

 

Historical Papers

            Junior Division

                        Victor Herbert (Linkhorne MS); Don’t Fence Me In: Japanese Interment Camps

                        Arielle Lubrabo (Linkhorne MS); A Japanese Poem Diary

            Senior Division

                        Nicholas Klein (E.C. Glass HS); The Rise and Fall of Malcolm X

                        Evan Dorman, (home school); Alexander the Great

 

Individual Performance

            Senior Division

                        A.J. Steffey (Liberty HS); Napoleon’s Retreat

                        Monic Romire (E.C. Glass HS); The Triumph of England, Tragedy of Scotland

 

Individual Documentaries

            Junior Division

Emily Overfelt (Bedford MS); The Voices aren’t Real but Sometimes They have some Good Ideas: Vincent Van Gogh

                        Florian Overfelt (Bedford MS); Oppenheimer: The Man and His Bomb

            Senior Division

                        McKenzie Miller (E.C. Glass HS); Midway Mark Midpoint

                        Mariah Skalka (Liberty HS); Innocent Bloodshed

Group Documentaries

            Junior Division

James Smith, Heather Flowers, Kyndall Draper, William Sperrazza (Bedford MS); Neutral News

Jessie Thanasouk, Caitlin Milton, Jessoca Brard (Bedford MS); Escape to the North

            Senior Division

Carly Oboth, Jamie Chong (E.C. Glass HS); The Forgotten Genocide: The American Massacres

Alison Reynolds, Kristy Wilson (Heritage HS); The Story of a Legend: Elvis Presley: A Triumphant and Tragic Documentary

 

Individual Exhibits

            Junior Division

Connor Fitzgerald (Linkhorne MS); Thirty-Six Days of Hell: The Battle of Iwo Jima

Sadie Natour (Paul Lawrence Dunbar MS); Civil War Medicine: Challenges, Adaptions, and Enovation

            Senior Division

Mary Seals (Liberty HS); The Bedford Boys: Our Country’s Triumph, A Small Town’s Tragedy

Daniel Telele (Heritage HS); W.E.B. DuBois and his Triumphant Plan for Racial

Revolution

Group Exhibits

            Junior Division

Nick Jones, Steven Burneson (Linkhorne MS); Casualties and Conquest of Pearl Harbor

Samantha Casey, Emily Scott (Linkhorne MS); Breaking the Blockade: Triumph and Tragedy of the C.S.S.

            Senior Division

Yasmine Digiulio, Ariel Wheelock (E.C. Glass HS); Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Zack Schorf, Bennett Whitehouse, Bert Schewel (E.C. Glass HS); Challenger: Triumph before Tragedy

 

Virginia History Day is a year-long educational program designed for students in grades 6-12. Throughout the school year, students conduct research of primary and secondary resources in order to prepare presentations based on an annual theme. This year’s theme was Triumph and Tragedy in History. The program culminates in a series of contests held at the regional state, and national levels.

 

This is CVCC’s 16^th year as host of District One, one of eight such sights selected this year to conduct Virginia’s regional competition. This year’s District One region coordinator was Matthew R. Poteat, Professor of History at CVCC. According to Poteat, there were approximately 200 student entries and more than 500 students that took part in this year’s local competition.

 

Virginia History Day , part of the National History Day network, is sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a private, not for profit, educational organization located in Williamsburg, Virginia.

 

For more information on this year’s History Day program, contact the state coordinator at (757) 220-7975, or visit the Virginia History Day web site at: www.history.org/history/teaching/vahisday.cfm.

 

Release Date: 4:00 PM (EDT) 04/10/07

Release Number: 070410.historyday

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Media Contact:

Kennan J. Meyer

Coordinator, Public Relations and Marketing

Central Virginia Community College

(434) 832-7609

meyerk@cvcc.vccs.edu

 

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