Shorewood students win History Day awards

By Craig Degginger, PIO, Shoreline Schools

Shorewood High School students took home 15 awards, the most of any high school in the North Puget Sound Regional History Day contest held March 19 at Shoreline Center.

The culmination of a year-long program in which students choose and research a topic, learning historical research principles and strategies, North Puget Sound Regional History Day is part of a national effort to enhance history education and prepare students to become informed and involved citizens. This year's contest theme is "Innovation in History: Impact and Change."

The Shorewood students qualified for the state competition at Bellevue College on Saturday, May 1. The top two finishers in each category at the state event will compete in the national contest June 13 to 17 at the University of Maryland, College Park.

At the Shoreline regional event, a record 556 students in grades 6-12 took part by conducting research and presenting their results in one of five categories: exhibits, papers, multi-media documentaries, original performances and websites.

 Shorewood's regional winners are:

Papers

Second place: Jacob Ziontz

Far Reaching Rights: An Era of Innovation in Treaty Law in Washington State that Impacted the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Worldwide.

Individual Web sites

Second Place: Charlton Callender

Anesthesia, No Pain, No Gain

Fourth place: Chris Evans

The United States Supreme Court: The Provider of Equality

Fourth place: Jarren Petit

The Wright Brothers Flying with the Birds

Group Web sites

Second place: Madison Welsh/Emiko Yamada

Barcodes: A Revolution in Data Capture

Individual Exhibitions

Second place

Cindy Chung

Fast Food: a staple of America's diet

Third place

Rebecca Erickson

Braille

Group Exhibitions

First place

Ronnie Park/Tracy Peng/Kaia McChesney

Google: Worldwide Innovation

Second place

Jennifer Thompson/Andromeda Nicolai

Penicillin: Miracle Medicine Breakthrough

Second place

Michelle Wilson/Tyanna DeNova/Ashley Greyell

Flappers: Bringing change to women through innovation of new beliefs

Third place

Dana Brindle/Ruth Wabula

The Innovation of Fast-Food: Big Industry, Big Problems

Individual documentaries

Second place

Trevor Cronin

The Stolen Generation: The Story of the Australian Aboriginal Children

First place

Rika Inouye

Innovations in Northwest Jazz Education

Second place

Dodge Schaeffer

Inspiration: Galileo Through Out Time

Group documentaries

Fourth place

Charlie Wakenshaw/Kameron Gronvold

Plastic: The Invasive Innovation

Photos by Don Wilson