YHS students winners at History Day

JUDY DURR
Veronica Stewart with her winning History Day exhibit, Encounter in the Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge.

Veronica Stewart won first place in the Individual Exhibit category of the Madera County History Day competition held at Yosemite High March 11.

Her winning entry was Encounter in the Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge.

The members of the winning Group Exhibit were Lauren Cano, Ricsie Hernandez and Alyse Stolp. Their project was Closer Look: Galileo Galilei.

Second place in Group Exhibit went to the team of Chelsea Niell and Hannah Millar with Theresienstadt: The Model Ghetto.

Third place went to Blake Burrett and Chris Flaherty for Russian Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.

Honorable mention in Group Exhibits went to the following teams:

Domenic Di Tomaso, Nicole Chirolo and Carmen George, An Exploration of the Psychological Terror During the Holocaust;

Jeff Parrish, Gabriella Ripley-Phipps, Ashley Epply and Amit Gurnani, We All Want to Change the World: America's Encounter with the Hippie Movement;

Shannon Bartoo, Christine Casner and Kristin Lukan, UFO Encounters at Roswell NM: Fact or Fiction;

Diana Davis and Jennifer Munn, Lewis and Clark (they also won the Creativity Award);

Sean Ratchford, Justin Leithem, Lauren Cook and Casey Lucas, Exploring Coarsegold, California and its Encounters with Gold;

Caitlin Blum and Taylar Hutchison, Alabama's Encount-er with the Civil Rights Movement.

Michael McCarty received honorable mention in the Essay category with his work on Lewis and Clark: Why Should We Care?

The theme for this year's History Day competition was Exploration, Encounter and Exchange in History.

Judges were Judy Durr, Cory Booth, Rick Comstock, Tammy Carter and Susan Pennell.

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