The 11th annual History Day competition, held Saturday, March 20th, was a great success!  As always, the day was bustling with the activity of student presentations.  This year 230 middle and high school students participated in the county-wide competition designing informative and creative exhibits, performances, websites, documentaries, and papers relating to the theme Innovation in History. Winners of the county competition advance to the state competition April 24^th at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. And the winners are…

 

Senior Papers

Eric Keen      

Feeding the World: The Haber-Bosch Process      

Homeschool, teacher Christine Keen

 

Leo Doran     

Dante Alighieri: Innovator of Medieval Culture      

Walt Whitman High School, teacher Robert Mathis

 

Junior Papers

Michael Keen

Reconnaissance Satellites:  Keeping the Peace     

Homeschool, teacher Christine Keen

 

Jeremy Clink

Call Me on My Cell Phone

 

Senior Performance

Steven Goldberg      

Jazz:  The Impetus of Innovation   

Walt Whitman High School, teacher Robert Mathis

 

Junior Performance

Natalie Behrends     

Assembly Line Production in the 1950's

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Hannah Horng

Ingredient Labels: Increasing Consumer Transparency and Medical Research in the United States     

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Junior Group Performance

Elena Schwam, Milena Castillo, Stephanie Renich

Synchronized Sound: Revolutionizing Film

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Michelle Schrier, Eric Rosenthal, Abir Muhuri, Darian Woehr       

Fast Food Marketing and the Demise of American Health

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Senior Individual Documentary

Deborah Wu

Innovation of Airplanes: Wright Brothers

Paint Branch High School, teacher Kimberly Lueck

 

Senior Group Documentary

Maxine Rich, Emily Fallick

America in a Thousand Words

Walter Johnson High School, teacher Nathan Schwartz

 

Tyler Hao, Aditya Srinavas, Modibo Camara

Submarine

Walter Johnson High School, teacher Nathan Schwartz

 

Junior Individual Documentary

Ruthie Gopin

Breakfast Cereal or Future President: Television's Effect on Presidential Elections      

Homeschool, teacher Robyn Gopin

 

Maya Berman

Orphan train: The Beginning of Foster Care in American

Homeschool, teacher Kate Berman

 

Junior Group Documentary

Rachel Allen, Ankita Reddy

The 1936 Turing Machine: The Harbinger of Modern Computer Science

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Michael Pedowitz, Richard Yarrow

Plastic: A New Material, A New World

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Sylvia Regan, Rachel Rosenberg, Rosemary Kepple

The Radio

North Bethesda Middle School, teacher Pat Robinson

 

Senior Website

Catherine Troup

The Brooklyn Bridge: A World Wonder

Bullis School, teacher Dr. Sara Romeyn

 

Kamar Saint-Louis

The Little Camera that Could: How the Brownie Captured America

Bullis School, teacher Dr. Sara Romeyn

 

Junior Website

Attiyah Jenkins

The Sweet Side of Innovation        

Homeschool, teacher Tee Jenkins

 

Ian Keifhaber, John Ramsey

Wal-Mart:  Innovating the Retail Landscape

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Cameron Ishee

United States Labor Movement

North Bethesda Middle School, teacher Eric Kling

 

Senior Individual Exhibit

Olivia Stearn

The Magazine: From the Printing Press into the 19th Century

Walter Johnson High School, teacher Nathan Schwartz

 

Stuart Grosvenor

Forgotten Miracle: Talking over Light with Bell's 1880 Photophone

Richard Montgomery High School, teacher Jonathan Taylor

 

Junior Individual Exhibit

Claire Atkinson

The Cotton Gin and Its Impact on American History

North Bethesda Middle School, teacher Pat Robinson

 

Christopher Thompson

Innovations in History: The Telegraph

John Poole Middle School, teacher Robert Whalen

 

Andrew White

The H.L. Hunley: The First Submarine to Sink an Enemy Ship in Combat

Rosa Parks Middle School, teacher Matthew White

 

Senior Group Exhibit

Ben Esenstad, Caldwell Clarke, Christian Mendoza

Refrigeration

Walter Johnson High School, teacher Nathan Schwartz

 

Jordan Shusterman, Rollin Tschirgi

The Transistor Radio: The Beginning of the Modern Information Age

School for Tomorrow, teacher Nancy Jakubowski

 

Junior Group Exhibit

Emily Daly, Song-Binh Ngo

A New Hope: The Jonas Salk Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Rachel Neave, Rebecca Lerner

The Development and Modernization of the Zipper

North Bethesda Middle School, teacher Pat Robinson

 

Yumi Kwamamoto, Anjali Banerji

Mankind is Noodlekind

North Bethesda Middle School, teacher Pat Robinson

 

SPECIAL PRIZES

 

Women’s History 1^st Prize (Sponsored by the League of Women Voters)

Natalie Smith, Rachel Gold

Margaret Sanger: Liberator of Women

Walter Johnson High School, teacher Nathan Schwartz

 

Women’s History 2^nd Prize (Sponsored by the League of Women Voters)

Kelly Kliefges

Florence Kelley: A women of Impassioned Integrity

Bullis School, teacher Dr. Sara Romeyn

 

African American Heritage Senior Prize (Sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women, Potomac Valley Chapter)

Asia Booker  

Harlem Renaissance Music: Can You Feel the Noise!

Bullis School, teacher Lisa Vardi

 

African American Heritage Junior Prize (Sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women, Potomac Valley Chapter)

Erin Monahan, Isel Fitzgerald, Langley Parker, Eva Branson

Giving a Chance to Millions: Charles R. Drew and the Blood Bank

Grace Episcopal Day School, teacher Brad Belin

 

Civil War Prize 1^st Prize (Sponsored by the Civil War Roundtable of Montgomery County)

Claire Atkinson

The Cotton Gin and Its Impact on American History

North Bethesda Middle School, teacher Pat Robinson

 

Civil War Prize 2^nd Prize (Sponsored by the Civil War Roundtable of Montgomery County)

Catherine Liu, Christina Chan, Megi Belegu

Prosthetics: Another Limb, Another Chance

Walter Johnson High School, teacher Nathan Schwartz

 

Civil War Prize 3^rd Prize (Sponsored by the Civil War Roundtable of Montgomery County)

Christopher Thompson

Innovations in History: The Telegraph

John Poole Middle School, teacher Robert Whalen

 

Archaeology Prize (Sponsored by PFB Consult)

Caitlyn Singam

Language: The Innovation that Sparked Human Evolution

Cabin John Middle School

 

Innovation in Education 1^st Prize (Sponsored members of the Parents Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland)

Noa Gur-Arie

Numbered People: IQ Testing in American Society

Eastern Middle School, teacher Laurie Hawe

 

Innovation in Education 2^nd Prize (Sponsored members of the Parents Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland)

Julia Bonner IDEA: Education for All

Bullis School, teacher Lisa Vardi

 

Local History (Sponsored by Boyds Historical Society)

Bridget MacDonald, Amanda Followell

Claire McCardell and the American Style

Rosa Parks Middle School, teacher Matthew White

 

Charles Jacobs Memorial Prize in Local History (Sponsored by Montgomery County Historical Society)

Elias Gonzalez

The National Institutes of Health

A. Mario Loiederman Middle School, teacher Alana Murray

 

Click here for a pdf version of the list of winners.

A special thanks to all of our wonderful judges and sponsors. Montgomery County History Day could not have happened without you!!

	MCHS is supported in part by funding from Montgomery County government and the Arts & Humanities council of Montgomery County.