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For Immediate Release: June 19, 2007
Ohio Students Bring Home National History Day Honors
Eight projects ranked among top 15 nationally
The Ohio delegation to the National History Day program at the University of Maryland in College Park returned home with eight awards among the top 15 in the country, including one of only two awards given nationally for overall excellence from The History Channel. Students from Cleveland, Cincinnati and Gallia County were among the award winners.
The middle- and high-school students competed with more than 2,000 students from the United States and American Samoa for honors they earned through district and statewide competitions, according to Megan Wood, state coordinator for the Ohio History Day Program in Ohio. Emily Cosco, a student at Mercy Montessori Center in Cincinnati, was awarded a second place medal for her individual performance. Second-place honors were also awarded to Henna Tzeng and Eileen Johnson from Birchwood School in Cleveland for their group performance. Andrew Walker, a student at Gallia Academy in Gallipolis, returned to Ohio with a third place medal and an award for overall excellence from The History Channel for his senior paper. Daniel Strassfield, Alex Grossman-McKee, Juliet Kibbe and Patrick White from Shaker Heights High School received a third place award for their group documentary.
NOTE: A complete listing follows of awards received by the Ohio delegation.
History Day is an exciting co-curricular program that encourages young people to explore a historical subject related to an annual theme. Students develop, research and present projects in junior (grades 6-8) and senior (grades 9-12) divisions in categories of exhibits, documentaries, dramatic performances and historical papers. Historians, educators and professionals in related fields evaluate students’ work at district, state and national events. Award-winning entries at the district level proceed to the statewide event and top statewide winners are eligible to represent Ohio at the national event.. This year’s theme was Triumph and Tragedy in History.
“Students make history come alive and demonstrates that students learn history when they do history,” said Megan Wood, state coordinator for National History Day in Ohio.
National History Day was founded in 1974 in Cleveland at Case Western Reserve University. The program went national in 1980. National History Day in Ohio is sponsored by the Ohio Historical Society and is funded in part by contributions by Honda of America Mfg., Inc., Cargill and AEP Ohio. For more information, visit the OHS website at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/edserv/ohd/.
National History Day Winners June 19, 2007
NATIONAL HISTORY DAY AWARDS TO OHIO STUDENTS
2nd Place - Junior Individual Performance:
Emily Cosco
Mercy Montessori Center in Cincinnati (Teachers: Sr. Mary Aloyse Gerhardstein/ Charlotte Foppe)
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Ohio Canal System
2nd Place - Junior Group Performance:
Henna Tzeng and Eileen Johnson
Birchwood School in Cleveland (Teacher: Connie Miller)
The Building of the Central Pacific Railroad: A Tragic Yet Triumphant Conquest
3rd Place – Senior Paper
The History Channel Award for Overall Excellence
Andrew Walker
Gallia Academy in Gallipolis (Teachers: Pam Wiseman & Ellen Brassel)
Canadian Caper: Triumph in the Midst of the Iran Hostage Crisis
3rd Place - Senior Group Documentary:
Daniel Strassfield, Alex Grossman-McKee, Juliet Kibbe and Patrick White
Shaker Heights High School (Teacher: Dann Parker)
Tears, Fire and Blood: Patrice Lumumba and the Congolese Struggle for Independence
4th Place – Senior Paper:
Best in State Award (Senior Division)
Lisa Guay
Ursuline Academy in Cincinnati (Teacher: James McCarthy)
The Sixteenth Amendment: Triumph and Tragedy of Competing Interests
7th Place – Junior Individual Performance:
Best in State Award (Junior Division)
Margret Erlensdottir
Birchwood School in Cleveland (Teacher: Connie Miller)
Operation Dynamo: Transforming Tragedy to Triumph on the Beaches of Dunkirk
9th Place – Senior Individual Documentary:
Thomas Neil
Shaker Heights High School (Teacher: Dann Parker)
Remember Oradour-sur-Glane: A Village Twice Sacrified
14th Place – Senior Group Documentary:
Gabe Pincus, Jacob Hutt and Adam Ratner
Shaker Heights High School (Teacher: Dann Parker)
Alone in the Shadows: The Triumph of Larry Doby
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