Vermont History Day 2016 Results
Junior Individual Website
1st
Cartooning for Change: Nina E. Allender
Crossett Brook Middle School – Willa Yonkman
Nationals
Qualified
Teacher: Lori Morse
2nd
W.A.S.P. - Women's Exploration of Aviation in WWII
Endeavour Middle School – Emily Foster
Qualified
Teacher: Julia Beerworth
3rd
Elizabeth Blackwell: Changing the Woman's World One Scalpel at a Time
Crossett Brook Middle School – Sydney Kulis
Teacher: Lori Morse
Junior Group Website
1st
The Voyager Program: Exploring Space, Encountering Wonders
Endeavour Middle School – Oliver Halberg, Jackson Neme
Qualified
Teacher: Julia Beerworth
2nd
Bayard Rustin: Life Behind the Scenes
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Bridgette Groff, Emma Poginy
Qualified
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
3rd
Atari: The Console that Explored Gaming
Lyndon Town School – Tanner Phelps, Andrew Schabler
Teacher: Tyler Willis
Senior Individual Website
1st
Dorothy Thompson: Finding the Truth
Homeschool – Kali Adams
Qualified
Teacher: Lynn Adams
2nd
David Koresh: Encounter with the FBI at Waco
Poultney High School – Mattilyn Brender
Qualified
Teacher: Keith Harrington
3rd
NYSE
Essex High School – Ben Johnson
Teacher: Elizabeth Ritchie
Senior Group Website
1st
World War II: The Influence of Imagery
Long Trail School – Sionann Harrington, Kristina Hilliard
2nd
3rd
Qualified
Teacher: Tess Kahn
1929 Stock Market Crash
Milton High School – Jake McNeil, Michael Outama
Teacher: Gary Furlong
The History of Food
Essex High School – Dalia Elhashami, Emily Trombley
Teacher: Elizabeth Ritchie
Junior Individual Documentary
1st
The History of American Women Architects
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Isabella Coe
2nd
Lost then Found: The Lost Boys of Sudan Encounter A Whole New World
Browns River Middle School – Jayme Billings
3rd
Petticoats on the Bum
Shelburne Community School – Lena Ashooh
Qualified
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
Qualified
Teachers: Joyce Babbitt & Cate Lamb
Teacher: Diana Rich
Junior Group Documentary
1st
How Immigration Impacted the Slate Valley
Poultney Elementary School – Brock Baker, Lucas Milazzo
2nd
Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner To President
Crossett Brook Middle School – Sam Motch, Ezra Samuel
Qualified
Teacher: Keith Harrington
Teacher: Lori Morse
Senior Individual Documentary
1st
Exploration, Encounter, Exchange: The Evolution of the Medical Profession Resulting from the Holocaust Qualified
Black River High School – Aiyana Fortin
Teacher: Suzette Cyr
2nd
Exploring the History of the Underhill Schoolhouse
Mount Mansfield Union High School – Faryal Afsar
Qualified
Teacher: Joyce Babbitt
3rd
The Scramble for Africa: The Race for African Colonization
Poultney High School – Christopher Cook
Teacher: Keith Harrington
Senior Group Documentary
1st
Exchanging Human Organs: Dr. Christiaan Barnard and the First Heart Transplant
Qualified
Milton High School – Katerina Desranleau, Adrianne Ollive
Teacher: Gary Furlong
2nd
The NFL: More Than Just Football
Long Trail School – Levin Coe, Nate Misasi, Cole Norkon
Junior Individual Performance
1st
The Artistic Exploration of Dance: Martha Graham
Poultney Elementary School – Abagail Hunter
Teacher: Tess Kahn
Qualified
Teacher: Keith Harrington
2nd
Nellie Bly: The Explorer of the World and Women's Roles
Lyndon Town School – Emma Renaudette
Qualified
Teacher: Tyler Willis
3rd
The Life of Antonio Stradivarius
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Nick Trevits
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
Junior Group Performance
1st
The Newsboy Strike of 1899
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Hannah Poginy, Annika Socia
Qualified
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
2nd
How Records, Radio and Television Helped Jazz Encounter More People
Qualified
Poultney Elem School – Amber Baptie, Ruth Dailey, Bryanna Gloss, Gabe Wescott Tr: Keith Harrington
3rd
Magellan at Sea
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Jude Coe, Sam Coe, Aidan Poginy
Junior Historical Paper
1st
Exploring Women's Rights: Jacqueline Cochran and the WASP Program
Crossett Brook Middle School – Riley Gallagher
2nd
Ben & Jerry's - Exploration of the Ice Cream Industry
Browns River Middle School – Abigail Effron
3rd
The Jonestown Massacre: An Analysis of an Infamous Cult
Endeavour Middle School – Hannah Frasure
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
Qualified
Teacher: Lori Morse
Qualified
Teachers: Joyce Babbitt & Cate Lamb
Teacher: Julia Beerworth
Senior Historical Paper
1st
Joseph Fourier: The Revolutionary Scientist
Mount Anthony Union High School – Austin Cobb
Qualified
Teacher: Rick Caswell
2nd
The American Industrial Revolution: Changes to New England Farm Families
Lyndon Institute – Mary Collins
3rd
Exploration into the Historical Case of Brown v. the Board of Education and Its Immediate Effects
Homeschool/Poultney High School – Obadiah Mulder
Teachers: Emily Mulder & Keith Harrington
Junior Individual Exhibit
1st
One Giant Leap: Neil Armstrong and NASA
Vergennes Union Middle School – Rory Patch
Qualified
Teacher: David Irwin
Qualified
Teacher: Cookie Steponaitis
2nd
Breaking Boundaries At the Cellular Level: Stem Cell Research
Vergennes Union Middle School – Emily Rooney
Qualified
Teacher: Cookie Steponaitis
3rd
Galileo: Astronomer, Mathematician, and Explorer of the Universe
Crossett Brook Middle School – Stefan Davis
Teacher: Lori Morse
Junior Group Exhibit
1st
Women Resisting the Taliban
Shelburne Community School – Sophie Dauerman, Helena Kerest
Qualified
Teacher: Wendy Hallock
2nd
Emmett Till's Deadly Encounter: One Boy's Sacrifice for Civil Rights
Crossett Brook Middle School – Brianna Bove, Cloe Cummings
Qualified
Teacher: Lori Morse
3rd
Building the Statue of Liberty
Ferrisburgh Central School – Adam Clark, Jarret Muzzy, Nate Muzzy
Teacher: Kathy Douglas
Senior Individual Exhibit
1st
The Exploration of Amelia Earhart
Long Trail School – Greta Schaub
Qualified
Teacher: Tess Kahn
2nd
Rabindranath Tagore
Rutland Area Christian School – Jason Lee
Qualified
Teacher: Robert Congdon
3rd
The Black Plague
Rutland Area Christian School – Matthew Rock
Teacher: Robert Congdon
Senior Group Exhibit
1st
Salem 1692 "Fear + Trigger = Scapegoat"
Qualified
Milton High School – Marisa Bonetti, Amelia Boucher, Hailey Moulton, Emily Pallas Tr: Gary Furlong
2nd
The Peloponnesian War
Milton High School – Sawyer Mcnaney, Zachary Popke
Qualified
Teacher: Gary Furlong
3rd
The National American Woman Suffrage Association
Long Trail School – Savannah Hastings, Amelia Perkins
Teacher: Tess Kahn
Special Prizes
Architectural History Prize Preservation Trust of Vermont
The History of American Women Architects
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Isabella Coe
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation History Prize Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation
The Newsboy Strike of 1899
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Hannah Poginy, Annika Socia
George F. Edmunds Memorial Prize Vermont Historical Society through the George F. Edmunds Fund
Senior Division
The American Industrial Revolution: Changes to New England Farm Families
Teacher: David Irwin
Lyndon Institute – Mary Collins
Gay and Lesbian History Award Vermont LGBT History Project
Bayard Rustin: Life Behind the Scenes
St. Paul’s Catholic School – Bridgette Groff, Emma Poginy
Teacher: Susan Guilmette
Leahy Library Prize Vermont Historical Society
Rabindranath Tagore
Rutland Area Christian School – Jason Lee
Teacher: Robert Congdon
Labor History Prize Vermont Labor History Society
The CCC: The Birth of the Ski Industry in Vermont
Black River Middle School – Erik Heitsmith
Teacher: Suzette Cyr
Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Award Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences
Andrew Carnegie Explores New Ways to Make and Use Steel
Teacher: Shelley Townsend
Mount Holly School – Sadie Kobak, Sarah Perham
Vermont History Award Vermont Historical Society
Battle of Valcour Island: Strategic Point for Americans
Ferrisburgh Central School – Xavier DeBlois, Parker Kayhart
Deborah Pickman Clifford Vermont Women’s History Prize
Vermont Commission on Women, Education and Research Foundation
Dorothy Thompson: Finding the Truth
Homeschool – Kali Adams
Teacher: Kathy Douglas
Teacher: Lynn Adams
Women’s History Award Patricia Passmore Alley in memory of Helen Vrooman Passmore
Women Resisting the Taliban
Teacher: Wendy Hallock
Shelburne Community School – Sophie Dauerman, Helena Kerest
Shelburne Museum Award Shelburne Museum
Tyler Willis – Lyndon Town School
Patricia Behring Teacher of the Year Award Patricia Behring
Junior Division
Senior Division
Lori Morse – Crossett Brook Middle School
Robert Congdon – Rutland Area Christian School