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History Projects Win Region Awards
GPS students qualified for state competition by virtue of several wins at the Southeast Tennessee Region National History Day 2017 Contest held on Thursday, March 2, at Museum Center at 5ive Points in Cleveland, Tenn.
A number of GPS students qualified for state competition by virtue of several wins at the Southeast Tennessee Region National History Day 2017 Contest held on Thursday, March 2, at Museum Center at 5ive Points in Cleveland, Tenn.
GPS freshmen competed against all levels of high school students through the Southeast Region. The theme of this year’s contest was “Taking a Stand in History,” and the students were given the option of creating a project of their choice in a website, documentary, exhibit, paper, or performance category. The projects used primary source research.
Winning first place in a senior group website, “Simon Bolivar Liberating South American Countries,” were Ruchika Rathi, Ella Ensign, Erin Maxwell, Elizabeth Rowe, and Kat Ingle. Taking third with a website on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests were Meredith Bevill and Isabelle Torrence. Claire Lindeman received a second place award for her individual website, “The Singing Revolution.”
In the documentary category, GPS groups won first and second place. The first place group of Jadyn Matthews, Isabel Hester, Olivia Hoodenpyle, Katie Millican, and Sana Nisar presented a documentary on “American Women’s Dress Reform, 1850-1920.” The second place documentary on “Cherokee Nation: Trail to Tribal Rights” was produced by Mary Beth Propes, Astra Burke, Katherine Bell, Sarah Foropoulos, and Komal Patri.
Those winning the top two awards in each category will present their projects in state competition on April 8 at the State Capitol Complex in Nashville. The National History Day organization invites the top two state finalists to the Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park.
