Central
Virginia Community College
History
Professor, Matthew Poteat
CVCC Hosts History Day 2011
Lynchburg, VA /Media Release/3/30/11 – On Saturday, March 19,
2011, Central Virginia Community College hosted the annual National
History Day competition for District One. More than 200 students
participated in this popular event.
History Day is a history competition for students in grades six
through twelve. It is conducted at district and state levels in conjunction
with the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day program. The first round of
competition is held in the eight Districts of Virginia. Students in grades six
through eight (6-8) are assigned to the junior division, students in grades
nine through twelve (9-12) are assigned to the senior division. In each
division, students may compete in any one of nine categories:
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Individual
Documentary
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Group
Documentary
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Individual
Exhibit
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Group
Exhibit
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Individual
Historical Paper
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Individual
Performance
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Group
Performance
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Group
Websites
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Individual
Websites
The theme for this year’s competition is “Debate and Diplomacy in
History: Successes, Failures, Consequences”. The two best entries in each
category, and in each age division, at the District competition qualify for the
State contest, which will be held on April 16, 2011 in Williamsburg. The two
best entries in each category, and in each age division, at the State
competition qualify for the national competition, which will be held at the
University of Maryland,College Park.
The 2011 District One winners are:
Research Papers
Junior Division
1.
Jack Fronheiser “The Debate Over Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan”
2.
Torie Slaughter “ Brown vs. Board of Education: Trial in History”
Senior Division
1.
Jennifer Smith “The Civil Rights act of 1964”
2.
Samantha Shupe “The Restoration of Europe”
3.
VictoriaBanks “ Censuring Hollywood”
Group Performance
Junior Division
1. Dakota
Willoughby, Nathan O’Hara, and Corbett McKinney
“Freeing Powers: Diplomacy in Action”
Senior Division
1. Sean
Warner and Jacob Jaminet
“Successes and Unforeseen
Consequences of the Yalta Conference”
2. Megan
Lee and Sydney Brooke
“Lowell Mill Girls: Debating Unfair Labor Practices”
Individual Performance
Junior Division
1.
Sarah Phillips “The Debate at Warnsee: The Genocide Game Plan”
2.
Annie Gianakos “Raoul Wallenberg: Negotiating For Lives”
Senior Division
1.
Kenzie VanDerwerker “Fueled By Fire: The Debate and Diplomacy of Women’s Labor
Unions”
Individual Documentary
Junior Division
1.
Thomas Maxwell “ Beaks vs. Bible: The Evolution/Creationism Debate”
2.
Lauren Brown “Trail of Tears”
Senior Division
1.
Audra VanDerwerker “Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die: United States Policy
towards Jewish Refugees”
2.
Aejoo Hong “The Manhattan Project: Atoms for Peace or Destruction?”
3.
Emily Overfelt “Salvation from the Skies: the Berlin Airlift”
Individual Exhibits
Junior Division
1.
Madie Morgan “The Atomic Bomb: Success or Failure”
2.
Kate Ruehle “From Schutzpass to Safe House: Raoul Wallenberg’s Diplomatic
Rescue”
3.
Burgess Edson “ The Temperance Movement: Woman vs. Liquor”
Senior Division
1.
Shaquan Johnson “ Marco Polo”
2.
Caroline Chun “Martin Luther’s 95 Theses: The Potent Doctrine”
3.
Griffin Spencer “ Prohibition: Noble Experiment of Dry Disaster”
Group Exhibits
Junior Division
1.
Sam Saville and Jake Smith “ The Berlin Wall”
2.
Jacob Selden, Scott Cooper, and Mikhail Gunther “ Blacks in Baseball”
3.
Caroline Mays, Clara Pierce, and Ann Jackson “Dropping the Bomb for Better or
Worse”
Senior Division
1.
Carson Creasy and Lindsay Riordan “The Marshall Plan: You’ve got a Friend in
U.S. (A)”
2.
Sophia Bolton, Katherine Brammer, Sydney Moon, and Olivia Varah
“To Drink or Not to Drink:
The Debate of Prohibition”
3.
Ashe Nithian, Lindsay Kim, and Derek Lin “Women’s Suffrage”
Group Documentaries
Junior Division
1.
Sabina Sabat, Hannah Roback, and Lauren Tweedy “ Gramme Dynamo”
Senior Division
1.
Diana Milea-Ciobamu, Victoria Barrett, Aainy Zahra, and Cameron Evans
“Debate and Diplomacy
throughout the French Revolution”
2.
Cade Skalkan and Dylan Wagner “ Rock and Roll Censored”
3.
Rachael Watts, Amanda Canter, Sarah Jones, Amanda Matullo, and Lauren Paulette
“Progressive Era: Child Labor”
Group Websites
Junior Division
1.
Claire Long and Amelia Jones “ Rosa Parks”
2.
Kayla Miller and Anna Beck “ Protection or Persecution: Japanese Internment
Camps”
3.
Bayleigh Gardner and Katherine Cope “ Women’s Fashion Debate of the Gilded Age”
Senior Division
1.
Matt McDaniel, Mason Jeremy, Felix Mika-Ciobanu
“Benjamin Franklin: The
Means for American Independence”
2.
Ye-Chan Jeoung, John Cameron Hicks, and Omar Jones
“The Korean War:
Troubles, Truths, and Reconciliation”
3.
David Pultz, Brandon Rohde, Avery Roed, Jake Carroll
“Trouble in Paradise: Close Encounters”
Individual Websites
Junior
1.
Sharon Noronha “ Pingpong Diplomacy”
2.
George Phillips “ The Munich Agreement”
3.
Ann Driskill “ The U.S. Debates Dropping 1st Nuclear Bombs on Japan”
Senior
1. Liesel
Anderson “ Yes Virginia, There Is Segregation”
2. Casey
Meyers “Title Nine”
3. Chad Calvert “The Cuban
Missile Crisis”
Related Links
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/vahisday.cfm (Virginia History Day)
http://www.nhd.org/ (National History Day)
Release Date: 11:00 AM (EST) 3/30/11
Release Number: 110330HistoryDay
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