Yosemite High picks History Day winners

Yosemite High School

 

Topics ranging from Nagasaki and Hiroshima to the origin of life were among the History Day projects presented at Yosemite High School last week. This was county competition, but only YHS participated.

Winners at the county level are eligible to go to the state competition in Pasadena May 8-11.

The topic for this year’s competition is Rights and Responsibilities.

YHS Library Media Teacher Betsy Blum, chairman of the event, said all of the students did an outstanding job. “The judges commented that they were impressed with the variety and scope of the entries,” Mrs. Blum said.

Judges were Jackie Malouf, George Wren, Shirley Howard, John Livergood and Cory Booth.

Winners were:

Exhibit — Group: First, Nagaskaki and Hiroshima, Taryn Porter, Julie Ruddock, Jessie Rybaczyk and Garret Tompkins; second, R&R of Teens: Respect Our Responsibility, Evelyn Livermoore and Amanda Perry.

Exhibit — Individual: First, The Irish Quest, Veronica Stewart; second, America’s Responsibility for Denying the Rights of Japanese Americans, Jordan Fowler.

Documentary — First, Music for the People, Shannon Moylan, Lauren Helm and Steffanne Benbenek; second, Nelson Mandela, Karras Blate and Shelby Wagner.

Web site — First: Peasants During the Mexican Revolution, Alexander Cano and Cole Hanft; second, Religious Freedom: Tibet, Rose Butler.

Performance — First, The Miranda Rights, Sean Ratchford, Jenna Barney, Anthony Grimes, Justin Leithem and Taylor Hutchison.

Essay — First, Kamikazes and Suicide Bombers, Marissa Martin; second, Alfred Dreyfus: An Affair of Honor, Cory Baxter.

Honorable Mention awards went to: Amy Rothchild and Tanya Venzke, 1968 Student Riots Web site; Cody Campbell, Bobby Macaulay, Tim Springer and Tim Williams, Vietnam War: Did the US Have the Right?, documentary; Elizabeth Zielins, Gabriella Ripley-Phipps and Jamie Ainley, Danish Resistance, exhibit; and Lindsay Collins, Origin of Life Under the Microscope, exhibit.