On Saturday, April 27th, dozens of HCS students competed in the state-level National History Day competition in Sumter, South Carolina. Eighteen projects created by forty-five HCS students from seven schools placed in the top three of their category. Projects that won first or second place are eligible to move on to the national competition, which will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, in June. Winning projects and their creators are listed at the bottom of the page.
Several HCS students won additional awards:
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Evalyn Ragland of Ten Oaks Middle won the Gilman Montgomery French Scholarship, presented by the SC Society of Mayflower Descendants.
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McKenna Vernon and Ann Aiken of North Myrtle Beach Middle won the Women’s History Award. This prize is awarded to the best project that focuses on the contribution, accomplishments, experiences, and perspectives of women in U.S. history.
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Abella Grant, Rosemary YacTistoj, and Zykirah Vereen-Simmons' project on Brown v. Board of Education was selected to be displayed in the Smithsonian.
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Sarah Bell, a teacher at Ten Oaks Middle, won the Ingle Teacher of the Year Award for the time, expertise, and energy she contributed to her students who participated in the South Carolina National History Day.
The National History Day competition has a theme for participating projects each year. This year, to celebrate National History Day’s 50th anniversary, the theme was “Turning Points in History.” The National History Day website explains the theme for participants:
“This year’s theme invites you to consider questions of time and place, cause and effect, change over time, and impact and significance. A turning point in history is more than just an important event that happened a long time ago. It is more than a new idea or a particular action taken by an individual. A turning point is an idea, event, or action that directly, or sometimes indirectly, causes change.”
Students must select one of the following categories for their projects: individual or group documentary, individual or group exhibit, individual or group performance, individual or group website, or historical paper. Middle school students participate in the Junior age range, while high school students participate in the Senior age range.
Student Winners
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School |
Student |
Project Type |
Project Name |
Place |
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North Myrtle Beach Middle |
Jade Decena |
Jr. Individual Website |
Nikola Tesla Lit the World |
1 |
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North Myrtle Beach Middle |
Jonah Mason |
Jr. Individual Website |
Breaking Studio Grounds: How the Dick Van Dyke Show Turned Television Comedy |
3 |
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St. James Middle |
Emelia Wirth & Karen Giery |
Jr. Group Website |
Xerography: Shaping the Course of History |
1 |
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Ten Oaks Middle |
Brendan Flagg, Noah Nasar, & Jamie Larry |
Jr. Group Website |
Digging up the Buried Bodies Case |
2 |
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Myrtle Beach Middle |
JaNayia Carroll, Jacob Kellys, & Athan Sourlis |
Jr. Group Website |
The Freedom Riders’ Momentous Influence on the Civil Rights Movement |
3 |
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Ocean Bay Middle |
Riley Wilkins |
Jr. Individual Exhibit |
The Columbine School Shooting: From Tragedy to Turning Point |
1 |
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Ten Oaks Middle |
Evalyn Ragland |
Jr. Individual Exhibit |
Turning Pages and Turning Points: To Kill a Mockingbird |
2 |
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Conway Middle |
Walker Hendrick and Luke Anderson |
Jr. Group Exhibit |
Pong Will Forever Be Pinged As The Game That Started It All! |
2 |
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Ocean Bay Middle |
Elizabeth Stanley |
Jr. Historical Paper |
Amber Hagerman: The Tragedy that Saves America’s Children |
1 |
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St. James Middle |
Halle Bain |
Jr. Historical Paper |
DNA Profiling: Giving Freedom to Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners |
2 |
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North Myrtle Beach Middle |
Capri Laughlin |
Jr. Individual Documentary |
The Berlin Wall: Why do we Really Care |
3 |
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Ten Oaks Middle |
Sophie Grant & Gabriella Suarez |
Jr. Group Documentary |
Turning Points: Brought to You by Sesame Street |
2 |
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Conway Middle |
Carter Barnes & Aiden Lopez |
Jr. Group Documentary |
The NES; The Dawn of Modern Gaming |
3 |
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Ten Oaks Middle |
Caleb Zahn |
Jr. Individual Performance |
“There is No Person in the World Like You:” How Mr. Rogers Transformed the Landscape of Children’s Television |
1 |
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Ten Oaks Middle |
Charlotte Ward |
Jr. Individual Performance |
Faulkner A Dangerous Disgrace; How Shannon Faulkner Overturned Sexism at The Citadel Academy |
2 |
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Ten Oaks Middle |
Emily Potter & Graceyn Moreland |
Jr. Group Performance |
No Women Can Call Herself Free: How Legalization of Birth Control Unleashed Women’s Empowerment |
1 |
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Early College High |
Connor Milburn |
Sr. Individual Website |
Theodore Roosevelt’s Conservationist Presidency |
1 |
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Early College High |
Mya Goodfellow & Meggy Morales |
Sr. Group Website |
The Alcatraz Occupation: Peace and Freedom |
1 |
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Early College High |
Zander Eason & Zoey Smithey |
Sr. Group Website |
“I Have a Dream” Speech |
2 |
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Early College High |
Destiny Grissett |
Sr. Individual Exhibit |
The Block Party that Changed History: The Start of Hip Hop |
2 |
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Early College High |
Abella Grant, Rosemary YacTistoj, & Zykirah Vereen-Simmons |
Sr. Group Exhibit |
Brown v. Board of Education |
1 |
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Early College High |
Lidia Bonilla Quero & Brianna Gomez |
Sr. Group Exhibit |
Mendes v. Westminster |
2 |
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Early College High |
Naomi Anaya & Natalie Anaya |
Sr. Group Exhibit |
Little Rock Nine |
3 |
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Early College High |
Trinity Young |
Sr. Historical Paper |
Turning Points in History: Occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973 |
1 |
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Early College High |
Pierce Langston |
Sr. Historical Paper |
The Discovery of Chemotherapy: From a Horror of War to Life Saving Cancer Treatment |
2 |
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Early College High |
Brittany Bellamy, Gameela DiBonaventura, & Justin Nobel-Mattis |
Sr. Group Documentary |
The Killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson |
2 |
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Early College High |
Dominik DeCaro & Justin Sellers |
Sr. Group Documentary |
Pearl Harbor |
3 |
