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2008 Virginia History Day Winners


DOCUMENTARY

Junior Individual

1st Place Winner:

Alexis Von Spakovski- St. John Neumann Academy
Rosie the Riveter: The Women Behind the Icon

2nd Place Winner:

Davis Barcalow- Graham Park Middle School
The OSS

Junior Group

1st Place Winner:

Sydney Summer & Rachael James- Blacksburg Middle School
Changing the Game: Title IX and College Sports

2nd Place Winner:

Tyler Carter & Walker Long- Castlewood Elementary School
United & Divided: The 1989 UMWA-Pittston Coal Strike

Senior Individual

1st Place Winner:

Caitlyn Suhler- Albemarle High School
Peace with Honor: The Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War

2nd Place Winner:

Marissa Beale- West Springfield High School
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Senior Group

1st Place Winner:

Henry Giles & Max Weiner- Western Albemarle High School
The Parthenon Marbles and the Euphronios Krater: The Question of Return

2nd Place Winner:

Emily Eyestone, Lucy Britt, & Wilson Hammett-
Blacksburg High School
The Ultimate Compromise


EXHIBIT

Junior Individual

1st Place Winner:

Matthew Hill- Loudon Country Day School
World War I: The Effects of a Failure to Compromise

2nd Place Winner:

Melanie Meehan- St. John Neumann Academy
Slavery and the Missouri Compromise: "A Firebell in the Night"

Junior Group

1st Place Winner:

Sidney Schaedel, Anne Hobbs Dorsey, & Amelia Joly-
St. Patrick Catholic School
Conflict and Compromise in the Great Race to Space

2nd Place Winner:

Ashleigh Sable, Sorenda Bickerstaff, & Megan Cole-
Walt Whitman Middle School
Lunch in Greensboro: A Conflict in Civil Rights, A Compromise in Business Serves up the Civil Rights Movement

Senior Individual

1st Place Winner:

Colin Amerau- Mount Vernon High School
Tuskegee Experiment

2nd Place Winner:

Mina Pirasteh- Wakefield School
Partition of Iraq: Viable Compromise or Promise of Conflict?

Senior Group

1st Place Winner:

Anna Wade & Anna Fairchild- E.C. Glass High School
On the Brink of a Nation: Resolving the Question of Power and Representation in Young America

2nd Place Winner:

Matt Johnson, George Perry, Saeid Kain, Ethan Doyle, & Wesley Roberts- Oakton High School
Iranian Hostage Crisis


HISTORICAL PAPER

Junior

1st Place Winner:

Andrew Vaccaro- St. John Neumann Academy
A Government in Crisis

2nd Place Winner:

Charoltte Roland- J.T. Henley Middle School
The Mine Wars of West Virginia: When the Miner's Struggle for Freedom Became the Compromise that Freed Us All

Senior

1st Place Winner:

Becky Koenig- West Springfield High School
Booker T. Washington: Compromise with Equality, Conflict with Justice

2nd Place Winner:

David Casalaspi- Cosby High School
Nullifying Unity: The Nullification Crisis of 1828-1833


PERFORMANCE

Junior Individual

1st Place Winner:

Kelly Kadlec- Blacksburg Middle School
He Who Placed Me in this Seat Will Keep Me Here: The Conflicts and Compromises of Queen Elizabeth I

2nd Place Winner:

Patrick Bond- Leslie Walton Middle School
The Lost Battalion: Conflict Leading to the Compromise in Versailles

Junior Group

1st Place Winner:

Fae Montgomery & Norah Overby-
Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School
The Watergate Scandal: Crime for Power

2nd Place Winner:

Alexis Kennedy & Tori Mays- Castlewood Elementary School
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the Use of Quilts as Signals for the Underground Railroad

Senior Individual

1st Place Winner:

Emily Wolfteich -- Edison High School
My Task is to Defend Myself: Compromise to Conflict in the Life of Sor Juana

2nd Place Winner:

Lydia Freesen- Ace Homeschool Cooperative
Lucille Ball: A Life Without Compromise

Senior Group

1st Place Winner:

Samantha Lin, Art Conley, Mohammad Rasool, Kaya Berne, & Paul Michel- Monticello High School
Fabricating a Conflict: Jefferson's Uncompromised Wall of Separation

2nd Place Winner:

Phoebe Weber, Kenzie Vanderwerker, & Evan Vanderwerker- Liberty High School
White Night: Conflict and Compromise in Jonestown


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Junior

1st Place Winner:

Grace Paine- Buford Middle School
Heroes and Heroines of the Holocaust

2nd Place Winner:

Matt Wattendorf- Springfield Estates Elementary School
The Founding of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company

Senior

1st Place Winner:

Joe Lacroix, Beth Stinson, & Tim Wing-
West Springfield High School
Bleeding Kansas

2nd Place Winner:

Mike Raust, Danny Metcalf, Hubert Shang, & Boyuan Wang-
Oakton High School
Conflict and Compromise in World War One