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Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest2010 WinnersIndividual Exhibit Junior1st: Rebecca Philpott Conway, AR, Carl Stuart Middle School Teacher(s): Sherry Holder, Kaye McMillian Entry - Crossett Experiment of 1916: An Innovation That Changed Malaria Eradication 2nd: Harsha Ramesh Mason, OH, Mason Middle School Teacher(s): Erin White Entry - The Innovation of the Smallpox Vaccine: Impacting Society and Changing Medicine 3rd: Brad Fane Pleasant Hill, IA, Southeast Polk Junior High Teacher(s): Kathy Wikert Entry - Herbert Hoover: A Logistical Genius Changing a Hungry World Senior 1st: Lauren Reisig Massapequa, NY, Massapequa High School Teacher(s): Dana Robbins Entry - Portioning off the American Dream 2nd: Claire Lo Shaker Heights, OH, Shaker Heights High School Teacher(s): Tim Mitchell Entry - The Devil's Rope: Pioneering the West 3rd: Alejandra Europa Houston, TX, Nimitz High School Teacher(s): Linda Kleeman, Barbi Binnig, Richard Cheplick Entry - An Innovation to Eat Group Exhibit Junior1st: Cade Mitch, Trystin Duffy Canton, OK, Canton Elementary School Teacher(s): Dora Fuqua Entry - Taming the Twisters: The Innovation of Doppler RADAR 2nd: Adam Kneepkens, William Menor Duluth, MN, Holy Rosary School Teacher(s): Andrew Olson Entry - Bypassing Bypass Surgery: Coronary Balloon Angioplasty 3rd: Lindsey Hassman, Carly Kielman Marshalltown, IA, Homeschool Teacher(s): Karen Hassman Entry - The Sewing Machine: Impacting History One Stitch at a Time Senior 1st: Lindsay Frank, Anna Stone Ottawa, KS, Ottawa Senior High Teacher(s): Candie Campbell Entry - Upton Sinclair: Escaping The Jungle Through Social Reform 2nd: Nathan Gupta, Nicholas Gupta Pensacola, FL, Pensacola High School Teacher(s): Michael Jones Entry - Muckraking: Exposing Corruption, Eliciting Reform, and Establishing Investigative Journalism 3rd: Oscar Trejo-Soria, Daniel Aguirre, Anail Caudillo, Mayra Romero, Monica Melendez Houston, TX, Nimitz High School Teacher(s): Linda Kleeman, Barbi Binnig, Richard Cheplick Entry - From Bayous to Beachheads: A Practical Innovation Individual Documentary Junior1st: Nikki Mariutto Plantation, FL, American Heritage School Teacher(s): Leslie Porges Entry - Innovations of Motown Records: How Music Helped Change America 2nd: Emma Grace Thompson Tellico Plains, TN, Thompson Home School Teacher(s): Sharron Thompson Entry - Innovation Ends Isolation: The Effect of the Telephone on a Small Appalachian Community 3rd: Liam Knox Plainsboro, NJ, Community Middle School Teacher(s): Karen Rosnick Entry - CNN 24/7: Launching a Brave News World Senior 1st: Collin McCarthy Harrisburg, PA, Bishop McDevitt High School Teacher(s): Eric Mark Entry - A Keystone Survey: Triangulating Social Investigation 2nd: Nathan Maris Kirkland, WA, International Community School Teacher(s): Mark Bach Entry - Blood Plasma: Dr. Charles Drew's Innovation and Its Impact on Trauma Medicine 3rd: Sarah Moore Bakersfield, CA, Centennial High School Teacher(s): Rowena Moore Entry - Silently Leaving a Legacy: The Actions of Chiune Sugihara Group Documentary Junior1st: Alicia Page, Allison New Moriarty, NM, Moriarty Middle School Teacher(s): Amy Page Entry - The Smokey Bear Campaign: Igniting National Awareness 2nd: Nathan Onorofsky, John Bowen Kutztown, PA, Kutztown Area Middle School Teacher(s): Beth Patten Entry - Fueled By Fear of Soviet Superiority: The Innovative Saturn V's Launch of a World Unifying Force 3rd: Elizabeth Perrotta, Laura Jennings South Hamilton, MA, Miles River Middle School Teacher(s): Tyler Walker Entry - Blood Banks: Innovation For Life Senior 1st: Thea Ma, Ingrid Ma Plainsboro, NJ, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North Teacher(s): Andrew Lipka Entry - Streptomycin: A Pioneer Antibiotic 2nd: Jennifer Mailee Lor, Norma Romero-Rodriguez St. Paul, MN, St. Paul Open School Teacher(s): Susanne Hollingsworth Entry - Satyagraha: An Innovation for Change Through Non-Violent Resistance 3rd: Avery HennigarClaire KawskiKatie Flores South Hamilton, MA, Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School Teacher(s): Kevin O'Reilly Entry - Innovations in Sanitation: The History of Chicago's Sewer System Individual Performance Junior1st: Ashlynne Macnee Fort Worth, TX, Christian Life Preparatory School Teacher(s): Carla Holiday Entry - The Innovation that Brings Global Relief 2nd: Ema Duran Albuquerque, NM, Albuquerque Christian School Teacher(s): Dawn McKenzie Entry - Satyagraha 3rd: India Thomas Saluda, NC, Thomas Academy Teacher(s): Angela Thomas Entry - I Love You Cheeseburger! The Innovation of Fast Food and Changes to American Health Senior 1st: Patrick Lawhon Kansas City, MO, Pembroke Hill School Teacher(s): Sam Knopik Entry - The Box That Made the World Smaller 2nd: Katelyn Barrett Gunnison, CO, Gunnison High School Teacher(s): Susan Barrett, Sharron Baldwin Entry - Barbie or Bust: Innovating the Modern Woman 3rd: Jonathan Box Austin, TX, Austin H S Teacher(s): Cherry Whipple Entry - Antitrust: Coping With the Dark Side of Business Innovation Group Performance Junior1st: Sameen Bramer, Brittany Louey, Ramie Sahota, Amy Williams, Calvin Laverty Bakersfield, CA, Fruitvale Junior High School Teacher(s): Susan Richardson, Brenda Griffiths Entry - Disturbing the Peace: The Freedom Rides the Innovation that Changed the Civil Rights into a National Movement 2nd: David Fuller, Dominic Hernandez, Michael Kasbar, Steven Morua, Michael Smith Moreno Valley, CA, Vista Heights Middle School Teacher(s): Susan Young, Autumn Earle-Rodriguez Entry - Seriously Sesame Street: Education Innovation 3rd: Lexi HagemanKortney HedlundHannah KoeleDesi OltmannsCali Westergard Akron, IA, Akron-Westfield Community School Teacher(s): Valorie Philips, Colleen Westergard Entry - The Golden Age of Radio: Changing America with the Turn of the Dial Senior 1st: Andrew Eerdmans, William Eerdmans Fergus Falls, MN, Fergus Falls High School Teacher(s): Marjorie Eerdmans, Vera Carlson Entry - Divided Highways: The Impact and Change of the Interstate 2nd: Joseph Gifford, Jenny Klejeski, Bekah Nelson Ham Lake, MN, Home School Teacher(s): John Paul Ii, Deb Nelson Entry - From Institutions to Integration: Innovation in Thought Toward the Mentally Disabled 3rd: Ceridwen Riley, Abby Burlingame Kirkland, WA, International Community School Teacher(s): Mark Bach Entry - H4: John Harrison's Steadfast Determination to Conquer Space with Time Paper Junior1st: Samvit Jain Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High School Teacher(s): Kimm Jensen Entry - Leader and Spokesman for a People in Exile: Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 2nd: Yashila Permeswaran Le Mars, IA, Le Mars Community Middle School Teacher(s): Jeanne Rust Entry - Frances Perkins: A Woman of Action Who Remembered the ""Forgotten Man"" and Left a Legacy for Workers Everywhere 3rd: Hillary Smith Sequim, WA, Sequim Middle School Teacher(s): Tricia Billes, Todd Beuke Entry - Fiction that Altered History: Harriet Beecher Stowe Ignites a Passion for Abolition Senior 1st: Laura Ball Milwaukee, WI, University School Of Milwaukee Teacher(s): Chuck Taft, Benjamin Zarwell Entry - Cholera and the Broad Street Pump: The Life and Legacy of John Snow 2nd: Jack Schnettler Minneapolis, MN, Blake School Teacher(s): Deana Jaeschke-Clapp, Lisa Sackreiter Entry - Man of the Hour: How Hubert Humphrey Broke the Longest Filibuster in History and Passed the Landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 3rd: Emily Brown White Bear Lake, MN, White Bear Lake High School North Teacher(s): Ted Eibs Entry - King of Hearts: The Actions and Legacy of Minnesota Surgeon Dr. C. Walton Lillehei Web Site Junior1st: Ida Hirsch, Ella Hirsch, Andrea Miller Manhattan, KS, Woodrow Wilson Elementary Teacher(s): Terry Healy Entry - Polio Pioneer: Jonas Salk 2nd: Chloe Boehm Roseville, MN, Parkview Center School Teacher(s): Erin Anderson Entry - The Kenny Method: Polio Rehabilitation, Treating the Untreatable 3rd: Sebastian McCrimmon Denver, CO, Hamilton Middle School Teacher(s): Lesley Meyer Entry - Secret Warriors: How the Navajo Code Talkers Helped Win World War II and Preserved Their Language Senior 1st: Lisa Xie Irvine, CA, University High School Teacher(s): Ann Campbell Entry - Hoover Dam: Transforming the West 2nd: Emma Hoppe, Elizabeth Schweitzer Lincoln, NE, Science Focus Program Teacher(s): Beth Briney, Jim Barstow Entry - "Out of the Box and Into the Oven": Transforming the American Diet 3rd: Robert Lockard, John Parks, Kylie Chiavuzzi, Jorge Torre Bartow, FL, Summerlin Military Academy Teacher(s): Steven Hall Entry - Electrifying America- Rural Electrification Act - Impact and Change |
Awards
At the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest winners receive monetary awards and medals in each category.
- Gold medalists receive $1,000*
- Silver medalists receive $500
- Bronze medalists receive $250
*The gold medal winning projects in the senior division individual and group documentary categories receive The History Channel Award of $5,000 in place of the National History Day $1,000 prize.
National History Day also recognizes one Outstanding State Entry from each state in the junior and senior divisions.