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Students Compete in State History Fair

Student winners in their respective categories are:

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place

• Yasamin Sharifi
  Unintended Consequences: The United States and Iran; A Failure in Diplomacy
  Chiles Middle School (Seminole); Teacher: Laura Cornwell-Estes

2nd Place

• Brianna Leatherwood
  Florida's Territorial Rights and Border Controversies: Successes, Failures, and Consequences of the United States' and Spain's Diplomatic Negotiations
  Bellview Middle School (Escambia); Teachers: Barbara Jacobs, Haley Close

3rd Place

• Ian McKinney
  The Indian Removal Act of 1830: A Failure of the Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and the Five Civilized Tribes
  Lawton Chiles Middle Academy (Polk); Teachers: Leon Williams, Marsha Yoder

Senior Historical Paper

1st Place

• Heather Davidson
  Early American Diplomacy: Jay Treaty (1796)
  Deland High School (Volusia); Teacher: Joel Slingerland

2nd Place

• Ana Bautista
  The Smoot-Hawley Tariff: Economic Debate, International Diplomacy, and the Great Depression
  Stanton College Preparatory (Duval); Teacher: David Holcombe

3rd Place

• Madison Chapman
  Property or Person: The Debate and Diplomacy of the Three-Fifths Compromise Home School; Teacher: Deborah Chapman

Junior Individual Documentary

1st Place

• Michael Paul Saturno
  Military Desegregation: A Turning Point in American History
  Chiles Middle School (Seminole); Teacher: Jennifer Capp

2nd Place

• Shelby Kurland
  The Moon Debate: Distance Between Two Points
  Rock Lake Middle School (Seminole); Teacher: Kristi King

3rd Place

• Katie Jones
  Where to Excavate: Panama or Nicaragua?
  Swift Creek Middle School (Leon); Teachers: Matt Rousseau, Stephen Veliz

Junior Group Documentary

1st Place

• Matthew McGovern, Feya Wang
  Ping Pong Diplomacy
  Farnell Middle School (Hillsborough); Teachers: Gene Hazel, Wendi Merritt

2nd Place

• Robin J. Best, Erin van Gorkom
  A Controversial Universe: Debates about the Expanding Universe Theory
  Fort Clarke Middle School (Alachua); Teacher: Jennifer Thomas

3rd Place

• Natalie Henning, Madison Noall, Martin Winton, Joseph Young-Perez
  A Nation Shattered: Prelude to the Civil War
  Canterbury School (Lee); Teacher: Evan Crawford

Senior Individual Documentary

1st Place

• Ernest Britt
  Rumble in the Jungle: Upton Sinclair and the Fight for Reform
  Spruce Creek High School (Volusia); Teacher: Nicholas Prince

2nd Place

• Carl Zee
  The Bonus Army: Diplomacy in Peaceful Protest
  F. W. Springstead High School (Hernando); Teacher: Suzanne Miranda

3rd Place

• Isaac Berner
  Summer of '67: Failed Negotiations and Diplomacy that Escalated the Six-Day War
  Shorecrest Preparatory School (Pinellas); Teacher: Ron Heller

Senior Group Documentary

1st Place

• Matt Mariutto, Nicole Mariutto
  The Gay Rights Debate of 1977
  American Heritage School (Broward); Teacher: Leslie Porges

2nd Place

• Dan Allweiss, Jason Kiracofe, Zac Smith, Steven Tellios, Michael Warren
  Nationalism and Diplomacy: The 1956 Suez Crisis
  Shorecrest Preparatory School (Pinellas); Teacher: Ron Heller

3rd Place

• Ashley Gillam, Jordan Sanders
  \ Separate but Equal? How the Jim Crow Law Affected African American Music in Florida
  Braden River High School (Manatee); Teachers: Eric Nelson, Jillian Bieber

Junior Individual Performance

1st Place

• Paul Reischmann
  Neville Chamberlain and the Munich Conference: Cowardly Submission or Bold Pursuit of Peace?
  Shorecrest Preparatory School (Pinellas); David Hodgson

2nd Place

• Kael Madison
  Doubt Is the Father of Invention: Galileo Takes on the Pigeon League
  Woodham Middle School (Escambia); Summer DeMilly

3rd Place

• Kensley Knoll
  Surrendering Their Spirits
  Buffalo Creek Middle School (Manatee); Teacher: Joseph Baker

Junior Group Performance

1st Place

• Jessica Hamacher, Jaime Kay
  Starvation in Ireland: An International Diplomatic Crisis
  Dunedin Highland Middle School (Pinellas); Teacher: Teresa Bergstrom

2nd Place

• Riley Farrow, Kimberly Ferguson, Brittyn Hamer, Logan Saliga
  Debate in the White City: Industrialism, Consumerism, Innovation, Failure, and Their Connections with the Columbian Exposition of 1893
  Tuskawilla Middle School (Seminole); Teacher: Rebekah Maggio

3rd Place

• Shay Potter, Jasmine Qronfleh, Annie Wallace
  "A Bird Named Enza:" Debating the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
  Merritt Brown Middle School (Bay); Teachers: Christine Sermons, Susan Granberg

Senior Individual Performance

1st Place

• Mackenzie Yaryura
  Rosa Luxemburg: Passion and Sacrifice
  Southeast High School (Manatee); Teachers: Cathy Slusser, Diane Vestrand

2nd Place

• Amanda Patton
  "Image Replaced the Printed Word": The Successes and Failures of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Televised Debates
  Pensacola High School (Escambia); Teacher: Michael Jones

3rd Place

• Gabriela Pickett
  United States v. O'Brien: Sparking a Controversy
  Canterbury School (Lee); Teachers: Evan Crawford, Ronald Young

Senior Group Performance

1st Place

• Theresa Button, Matt Fennema, John Paul Gagliano, Daniel Mangan
  The Pyrrhic Victory that Launched a Presidency: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  Home School (Leon); Teacher: Lynn Mangan

2nd Place

• Logan Elder, Alice Leavengood, Annie Schneider, James Wenz, Adrianna Wenz
  The Plot that Made Britain Great: Elizabeth, Mary, and the Babington Plot
  Shorecrest Preparatory School (Pinellas); Teacher: Ron Heller

3rd Place

• Tyler Bryant, Tony Dickup, Anthony Miller
  The Indian Removal Act and Andrew Jackson's Gunboat Diplomacy
  West Florida High School/Technical (Escambia); Teacher: Tiffany Odom

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

• Tristan Simmons
  On the Brink of War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
  Turkey Creek Middle School (Hillsborough); Teacher: Kristen Holloway

2nd Place

• Joanna Deng
  The Stamp Act Crisis
  Bellview Middle School (Escambia); Teachers: Barbara Jacobs, Haley Close

3rd Place

• Sean Brodney
  Dropping the Bomb
  Thurgood Marshall Fundamental (Pinellas); Teacher: Susan Pendergraft

Junior Group Exhibit

1st Place

• David Contento, Andrew English
  The Cuban Missile Crisis
  American Heritage School (Broward); Teacher: Leslie Porges

2nd Place

• Samantha Berner, Jordana Berner, Gabriela Berner
  Man on the Moon
  Coral Springs Charter (Broward); Teachers: Lasylvia McCorvey, Michele Moore

3rd Place

• Drayton Diggs, Jordan Diggs
  Brother Against Brother
  Trafalgar Middle School (Lee); Teacher: Sue Tracy

Senior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

• Nick Gupta
  Dire Straits: The 1956 Suez Crisis
  Pensacola High School (Escambia); Teacher: Michael Jones

2nd Place

• Jalen Benson
  Suffrage Debates: Poll Tax, Literacy Test, and the Grandfather Clause
  Pensacola High School (Escambia); Teachers: Michael Jones, Tracy Brown

3rd Place

• Sameer Saboungi
  The Balfour Declaration of 1917 and Its Impact
  Spruce Creek High School (Volusia); Teacher: Karie Cappiello

Senior Group Exhibit

1st Place

• Asia Cravens, Maya Crosby
  Jackie Robinson
  J. M. Tate Senior High School (Escambia); Teachers: Chris Williams, Clint Peacock

2nd Place

• Maria Ferreira, Jose Serra
  When America "Meats" Reality
  American Heritage School (Broward); Teachers: Krisynda Cicos, Leslie Porges

3rd Place

• Jennifer Levalley, Jori Mansfield
  Peace in Our Time?
  East Lake High School (Pinellas); Teacher: Alan Kay

Junior Individual Website

1st Place

• Chase Vaughn
  The Cuban Missile Crisis Debate
  Swift Creek Middle School (Leon); Teachers: Grace Bigelow, Stephen Veliz

2nd Place

• Alexis Beans
  Iran Hostage Crisis
  Northport K-8 School (St. Lucie); Teacher: Mary Ellsworth

3rd Place

• Nicholas Krostag
  Tinkering with Students' Freedom of Expression: Disruption vs. Expression
  Ransom Middle School (Escambia); Teacher: Janet Enfinger

Junior Group Website

1st Place

• Nicole Kimmel, Heba Nassereddeen
  Little Emperors from an Exploding Population: The Debate and Diplomacy of China's One Child Policy
  Tuskawilla Middle School (Seminole); Teacher: Rebekah Maggio

2nd Place

• Alec Emser, Arber Muharemi
  Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days of Tension
  Seminole Middle School (Pinellas); Teacher: Sarah DeTurk

3rd Place

• Erica Dunlap, Cassie McDonald
  Atomic Bomb: Right or Wrong?
  Osceola Middle School (Pinellas); Teacher: Tom LaPorta

Senior Individual Website

1st Place

• Robert Mines
  The Cuban Missile Crisis: Diplomacy Averting Mutually Assured Destruction
  West Florida High School/Technical (Escambia); Teacher: Tiffany Odom

2nd Place

• Evie Sobczak
  The Right-to-Die: The Ultimate Human Rights Debate
  Shorecrest Preparatory School (Pinellas); Teacher: Ron Heller

3rd Place

• Laura Silva
  Failed Diplomacy: Munich Agreement of 1938
  Osceola County School of Arts (Osceola); Teacher: Mary Thiele

Senior Group Website

1st Place

• Dominic Chiampi, Gabrielle DiLullo, Harrison Pincket, Alix Rousseliere
  The Scramble for Africa
  Bartow Senior High School (Polk); Teacher: Theodore Wright

2nd Place

• Koby Craig, Cody Emmerman, Kevin Olieveira
  The Vietnam War: Intervention of the United States
  Springstead High School (Hernando); Teachers: Eric Swensen, Suzanne Miranda

3rd Place

• Brent Beck, Ravi Kohli, Kurt Yilmaz
  Diplomatic Debates on Robben Island
  East Lake High School (Pinellas); Teacher: Alan Kay

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