NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2015

We’d like to extend our congratulations to all of this year’s winners, and a big thank you to all of the hard-working teachers, coordinators and judges who made this event such a memorable and rewarding experience.

 

Theme: Leadership and Legacy in History

National History Day is a year-long educational program for middle and high school students to research, learn and produce a creative project on a topic in history. The National Maritime Historical Society is proud to be an official supporter of this program with the hope of inspiring young people to learn about maritime history. To learn about National History Day in your state, please visit www.nhd.org.

Congratulations to all of the winners listed below!

 

Connecticut

Senior 1^st Place – Website: “Amistad Revolt”
Student: Josephine Bensa; Classical Magnet School, Hartford, CT
Teacher: Jeffrey Huberman

Junior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “Amistad Incident & Trials”
Students: Lindsey McDonald, Sommer Miller, Paige Moffat; Memorial Middle School, Middlebury, CT
Teacher: Sharon Wlodarczyk

 

Delaware

Junior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “The Boston Tea Party”
Students: Tyree Artis, Daniel Fogbawah: Talley Middle School, Wilmington, DE
Teacher: Howard Bechler

 

Georgia

Senior 1^st Place – Performance: “Leadership and Legacy of a Civil War Submarine: The H.L. Hunley”
Student: Anthony Dukes; Dukes Home School, Doraville, GA
Teacher: Alice Dukes

 

Massachusetts

Senior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “Save the Fort! Edward Rowe Snow’s Crusade to Preserve a New England Civil War Landmark”
Students: Patrick O’Brien, Brendan O’Brien; O’Brien Home School, Ware, MA
Teacher: Katie O’Brien

Junior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “Fearless Father O’Callahan: Leadership and Legacy Aboard USS Franklin”
Student: Stephen O’Brien; O’Brien Home School, Ware, MA
Teacher: Katie O’Brien

Junior 2^nd Place – Website: “Ferdinand Magellan: Resilient Leader with a Misunderstood Legacy”
Students: Matt Anderson, Kalman Baker, Casey Wood; Norton Middle School, Norton, MA
Teacher: Jack Howley

 

Maine

Junior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “Grace Hopper”
Students: Hannah Kaczynski, Alanna Myshrall; Bruce M. Whittier Middle School, Poland, ME
Teacher: MaryEllen Johnson

Junior 2^nd Place – Exhibit: “Leadership and Legacy Behind the Guns: Rosie the Riveters on the American Homefront”
Student: Ashton Maze; Greely Middle School, Cumberland, ME
Teacher: Kathi Kearney

 

New Jersey

Junior 1^st Place – Documentary: “Prince Henry The Navigator”
Student: Rishab Bhatt; Grover Middle School, West Windsor, NJ
Teacher: Debra Cohen

Junior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “John Paul Jones”
Students: John Collins, Tucker Simpson; Lawrence Middle School, Lawrence Township, NJ
Teacher: Priscilla Taylor

New York

Senior 1^st Place – Paper: “King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella: The Golden Age of Spain”
Student: Edward Trosset, Cooperstown Junior/Senior HS, Cooperstown, NY
Teacher: Michelle Hitchcock

Junior 1^st Place – Website: “Panama Canal: Leadership and Legacy”
Student: Benjamin McHugh; Granville Central School, Granville, NY
Teacher: Mark Vanderzyden, Ann O’Brien, Mara McCarthy

 

North Carolina

Senior 1^st Place – Documentary: “Midget”
Students: Spencer Freeman, Tyler Phinizy, Jordan Spargur; South Central High School, Winterville, NC
Teacher: Jennifer Bryan

Senior 2^nd Place – Performance; “By Endurance We Conquer: The Leadership and Legacy of Sire Ernest Shackleton”
Student: Mead Krowka; Immaculate Catholic School HS, Hendersonville, NC
Teacher: Yvonne Krowka

Junior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “Henry VIII: A Legacy Blighted”
Student: Aylan Meyers; Swain County Middle School, Bryson City, NC
Teacher: Amber Gilliam, Kimberly Jamison

Junior 2^nd Place – Exhibit: “Theodore Roosevelt: Leadership and Legacy Related to the Panama Canal”
Student: Matthew Blount; Saint Peters Catholic School, Greenville, NC
Teacher: Joe Hughes

 

Rhode Island

Senior 1^st Place – Paper: “Nathanael G. Herreshoff: Leader, Naval Architect”
Student: Mackenzie Fraser; Pilgrim High School, Warwick, RI
Teacher: Alison Curry Wallace

Senior 1^st Place – Exhibit: “What The Ice Gets The Ice Keeps—Ernest Shackleton”
Students: Zoey Andrade. Elizabeth Morris; St. Mary Academy Bay View, Riverside, RI
Teacher: Michelle-Anne Vasconcellos

Junior 2^nd Place – Exhibit: “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Leader of the Everglades Conservation Effort”
Students: Freya Badger, Meagan Heatherton; Saint Margaret School, East Providence, RI
Teacher: Laura Doliber

 

Washington

Senior 1^st Place – Website: “George W. Goethals and the Panama Canal”
Student: Andrew Cooper; Liberty High School – Issaquah, Renton, WA
Teacher: JoAnn Olsson