Brazos Valley Regional History
Fair 2011
WINNERS
First and second place winners
will advance to Texas
History Day in Austin, May 6-7, 2011:
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL HISTORICAL
PAPER:
Honorable Mention:
Title: The Price of Peace
Students: Emily Flicker
School: Brenham Christian Academy
Third Place
Title: A Place in the Sports World
Students: Macie Becker
School: Brenham Junior High
Second Place
Title: Munich Conference
Students: Jack Marley
School: Brenham Christian Academy
First Place
Title: The Military-Industrial Complex: Before and Beyond President
Eisenhower
Students: Alec Chilton
School: Navasota Junior High
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY:
Honorable Mention:
Title: Vietnam War: Operation Rolling Thunder
Students: Trenton Moy
School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School
Third Place
Title: Annexation of Texas to United States
Students: Seth Kehlenbeck
School: Navasota Junior High
Second Place
Title: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
Students: Haley Warzon
School: Navasota Junior High
First Place
Title: Tejana Racial: Emma Tenayuaca of the Pecan Sheller's Strike
of 1938
Students: Layla Perez
School: Navasota Junior High
JUNIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY:
Honorable Mention
Title: Food Processing Debate: The Jungle
Students: Rachel Coffey, Morgan Smith
School: Navasota Junior High
Third Place
Title: The Korean War
Students: Zach Pavalock, David Ramirez, Michael Coffey
School: Navasota Junior High
Second Place
Title: Title IX: Womens Sports vs. Men Sports
Students: Kynsee Gesch, Shelby Binford
School: Navasota Junior High
First Place
Title: The Federal Theatre Project: Calling America's Actors
Students: Austin Browne, Hannah Childress, Madison Dietrich
School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE:
First Place
Title: Humanity or Slavery
Students: Kimberlie Skinner
School: Navasota Junior High
JUNIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE:
Honorable Mention
Title: Child Labor: The Importance of Life, Strength and Innocence
Students: Devyn Falkenbury, Cortney Alfaro
School: Navasota Junior High
Third Place
Title: Rosa Parks: Angry, Not Tired
Students: Tyler Leonberg, Sara Strode
School: Navasota Junior High
Second Place
Title: Fewer Limits and Shorter Skirts
Students: Madison Botkin, Sydney Kniffin
School: Navasota Junior High
First Place
Title: The Trail Where They Cried
Students: Colleen Bentke, Haley Nutt, Marci Raley
School: Brenham Junior High
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBIT:
Honorable Mention
Title: Title XI
Students: Courtney Anne Maynard
School: Navasota Junior High
Third Place
Title: Tobacco: Dollars or Sense
Students: Bethany Busa
School: Navasota Junior High
Second Place
Title: Dropping the Atomic Bomb
Students: Wyatt Hohlt
School: Brenham Junior High
First Place
Title: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Students: Katelyn Markizer
School: Brenham Junior High
JUNIOR GROUP EXHIBIT:
Honorable Mention
Title: A Price for Victory: The Battle of Little Bighorn; Custer's
Last Stand
Students: Jessica Johnson, Kelton Goudeau, Hunter Lara
School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School
Third Place
Title: Prohibition of Alcohol
Students: Trey Stegint, Jacob Sterle
School: Navasota Junior High
Second Place
Title: East vs. West - The Berlin Wall
Students: Brianna Maitland, Ashley Eyster
School: Brenham Junior High
First Place
Title: Race to Space: An Account of Debate in the World
Students: Zachary Barnes, Shane Bentke, George Newman
School: Brenham Junior High
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE:
Honorable Mention
Title: Born in the USA: Guilty or Innocent
Students: Callie Stegmeier
School: Brenham Junior High
Third Place
Title: Debate and Diplomacy: Animal Experimentation
Students: Ashley Fite
School: Brenham Junior High
Second Place
Title: The Equal Rights Amendment: Failure for Women?
Students: Andie Krumrey
School: Navasota Junior High
First Place
Title: The Doors will close, but on which one?
Students: Mireya Tovar
School: Navasota Junior High
JUNIOR GROUP WEBSITE:
Honorable Mention
Title: Duration of Slavery
Students: Jennifer Du, Casey Barthen
School: Navasota Junior High
Third Place
Title: Berlin Wall
Students: Elizabeth Schulze, Brennan Upchurch, Alexis Boothe
School: Brenham Junior High
Second Place
Title: Bombing of Hiroshima
Students: Matthew Howlett, Matthew Zettel, Brady Roper, Cole Kenjura
School: Brenham Junior High
First Place
Title: The Pig War: The San Juan Island Boundary Dispute
Students: Elizabeth Price, Marleigha McGinty
School: Navasota Junior High
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL HISTORICAL PAPER:
Honorable Mention
Title: Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Students: Matthew Dugi
School: Brenham Christian AcademyThird Place
Third Place
Title: Prayer in School
Students: Kyle Kolkhorst
School: Brenham Christian Academy
Second Place
Title: History of Title IX: A Look into the Successes and Failures
Students: Julie Slaughter
School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School
First Place
Title: Two Centuries Short of a Millennium: The Controversy of
the Laudabiliter and How it Affects Ireland Today
Students: Julie Huff
School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY:
Third Place
Title: Negotiating with Terrorists
Students: Taylor Clark
School: Navasota High School
Second Place
Title: Cuban Missile Crisis
Students: Isaac Leer
School: Brenham High School
First Place
Title: Prohibition of Alcohol
Students: Cody Kunkel
School: Brenham High School
SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY:
Honorable Mention
Title: Pay to Play
Students: Jacob Deramus, James Homan, Caleb Sink
School: Brenham High School
Third Place
Title: Debate & Diplomacy: A Struggle Between Two Worlds
Students: Anna Dusek, Rebecca Murski, Alicia Wahrmund
School: Brenham High School
Second Place
Title: Rock and Roll: The Cornerstone of Early Teen Culture
Students: Austin Baumert, Ricardo Medina, Daniel Ruiz, Rene Silva
School: Navasota High School
First Place
Title: Too Strong for a Woman: Title IX
Students: Rebeca Rivera, Shawna Campbell, Taylor Prewitt
School: Navasota High School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE:
Honorable Mention
Title: Linda Brown: My Struggle for a Better Education
Students: Jakayla Dabera
School: Brenham High School
Third Place
Title: An Act of Reason, An Act of Rights: The Voting Rights Act
of 1965
Students: Tyler Lewis
School: Navasota High School
Second Place
Title: My Dear Mary: Stephen F. Austin and the Texas Revolution
Students: Katie Irwin
School: Navasota High School
First Place
Title: The History of Ballet: Keeping Balerinas Spinning on Their
Toes
Students: Bonnie Sturrock
School: Brenham High School
SENIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE:
Honorable Mention
Title: The Orphan Trains
Students: Ashley Hataway, Gracie Mock, Katie Young, Shai Anderson
School: Navasota High School
Third Place
Title: The Berlin Wall: Breaking Down the Barriers
Students: Kaitlyn Strode, Carolina Sanchez, Lauren Mosley
School: Navasota High School
Second Place
Title: Women's Fashion Debated in the Gilded Age: Broadening Boundaries
- Shrinking Limitations
Students: Michelle Derkowski, Nicole Villegas
School: Brenham High School
First Place
Title: If an opportunity knocks, do you take it or leave it?
Students: Janet Richardson, Teresae Willis, Chelsey Woodard
School: Navasota High School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBIT:
Honorable Mention
Title: A Country Divided
Students: Amber Pasket
School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School
Third Place
Title: The Big Stick Debate
Students: Rachel Butler
School: Brenham High School
Second Place
Title: Fighting for Equality: The Tuskegee Airmen
Students: Diego Regalado
School: Navasota High School
First Place
Title: Did Thomas Jefferson and our Founding Fathers intend for
Christianity to be Expelled from Public Life?
Students: Analeigh Lamb
School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School
SENIOR GROUP EXHIBIT:
Honorable Mention
Title: Ruby Bridges: School Integration
Students: Aaliyah Massie, Lourdes Tovar
School: Navasota High School
Third Place
Title: The Bracero Program: Mexican Immigration
Students: Jacey Goerlitz, Kate Wellmann
School: Brenham High School
Second Place
Title: The Atomic Bomb: Was It Really a Good Decision?
Students: Jeremy Arnold, Cullen Chovanec
School: Brenham High School
First Place
Title: Mendez vs Westminster: White but not Equal
Students: Cruz Rodriguez, Ricardo Aguilar
School: Navasota High School
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE:
Third Place
Title: Bombing Japan: A Moral Debate
Students: James Murphy
School: Brenham High School
Second Place
Title: American Concentration Camps: Japanese Internment
Students: Lacie Bihms
School: Navasota High School
First Place
Title: Integration of the Navasota Schools: Was it the Promised
Land?
Students: Deontre Lowery
School: Navasota High School
SENIOR GROUP WEBSITE:
Honorable Mention
Title: The Munich Agreement
Students: Anna Dahlquist, Andie Roskow
School: Brenham Christian AcademyThird Place
Third Place
Title: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Students: Jackson Prewitt, Blake Feder
School: Navasota High School
Second Place
Title: You've Come a Long Way, Maggie.
Students: Qanteria Roberson, Leece Uilkie, Gabriela Garcia
School: Navasota High School
First Place
Title: Four Dead in Ohio: The Battle For the First Amendment
Students: Kelsey Kehlenbeck, Aubrey Armstrong, Trevor Savensky
School: Navasota High School
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SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS:
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The Grimes County History Awards: Sponsored by
Jared Patout, CPA
Junior: Jessica Johnson & Kelton Goudeau & Hunter Lara
(School: Anderson-Shiro Secondary School)
Senior: Cruz Rodriguez & Ricardo Aguilar (School: Navasota
High School)
The Texas History Awards: Sponsored by the Washington
on the Brazos State Park Association
Junior: Haley Warzon (School: Navasota Junior High)
Senior: Harry Norris (School: Navasota High School)
The Washington County Awards: Sponsored by the
Washington County Historical Commission
Junior: Jack Marley (School: Brenham Christian Academy)
Senior: Kyle Kolkhorst (School: Brenham Christian Academy)
The Woman in Texas History Awards: Sponsored
by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Dr. Richard Fox Brenham
Chapter
Junior: Layla Perez (School: Navasota Junior High)
Senior: Meg Jahns (School: Brenham High School)
