Published On: February 7th, 2014By Leticia Fehling

District History Fair Winners

Below are the results from the District 2014 History Fair Competition. First and second place winners will advance to the regional competition set for February 21 at the Aldine Staff Development Center.

The 2014 History Day theme, “Rights and Responsibilities in History,” provides an opportunity for students to take a deeper look at the different forms rights can take and how responsibilities relate. Students have to explore the correlation between rights and responsibilities and not simply focus on one or the other.

Congratulations to all who placed and good luck to everyone who advanced to the Regional History Fair!

6th Grade Group Documentary
1st Place — Yazmín Coronado & Jasmine Iglesias for project entitled “Death by Fire: The Deadliest Industrial Fire of 1911”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
2nd Place — Esteban Echavarría, Nilo Peralta & Eric Sánchez for project entitled “Tuskegee Airmen”
Campus: Reed Academy
3rd Place — Josephene de León, Gisell Rivas, Rogelio Rodríguez & Zitlali Valdéz for project entitled “Samuel Burris”
Campus: Reed Academy
Honorable Mention — Vanessa Benítez & Mahrukh Kilana for project entitled “Take A Ride On The Reading Railroad: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School

6th Grade Individual Documentary
1st Place — Jasmine Vital for project entitled “Sylvia Méndez: The Fight for Desegregation”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
2nd Place — Roland Angelo Reyes for project entitled “Emilio Aguinaldo’s Fight for the Philippine’s Rights and Responsibilities”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
3rd Place — Binh Le Bui for project entitled “The American Indian Movement”
Campus: Eckert Intermediate School

6th Grade Group Performance
1st Place — Karina Guevara, Gloria López, Fernanda Manzano & Stephanie Vásquez for project entitled “César Chávez”
Campus: Reed Academy
2nd Place — Julia Menjívar, Alexy Quiroga, Madalynn Ramírez & Dámaris Salazar for project entitled “The Rights and Responsibilities of Romana Acosta Bañuelos”
Campus: Houston Academy

6th Grade Historical Papers
1st Place — Brenda García for project entitled “Revolution Within a Revolution: The Battle for the Right to Bear Arms”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate
2nd Place — Samina Balangay for project entitled “Women’s Suffrage: A Struggle for Women to Vote”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
3rd Place — Arianna Bárcenas for project entitled “Holocaust”
Campus: Reed Academy
Honorable Mention — Tru Smith for project entitled “Nicholas Winton”
Campus: Parker Intermediate School

6th Grade Group Website
1st Place — Kameron Mason, Krista Mason & Marc Rapalo for project entitled “The Great Upheaval”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
2nd Place — John Castañeda, Nicolás Gonzales, Elizabeth Manriquez, Jillian Nguyen & Samantha Salazar for project entitled “The Love Canal”
Campus: Parker Intermediate School
3rd Place — Jasmin Guerrera, Gieselle Mayoral & Jazmine Tuscana for project entitled “Pancho Villa”
Campus: Reed Academy
Honorable Mention — Daylon Miller & Cinthia Rangel for project entitled “U.S. Citizenship”
Campus: Parker Intermediate School

6th Grade Individual Website
1st Place — Juan Flores for project entitled “My Lai Incident”
Campus: Eckert Intermediate School
2nd Place — Taylor Joseph for project entitled “The Indian Removal Act”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
3rd Place — Alexis Stewart for project entitled “The Children’s Bureau”
Campus: Houston Academy
Honorable Mention — Rachel Candanoza for project entitled “Trail of Tears”
Campus: Reed Academy

6th Grade Group Exhibit
1st Place — Ray Barrera, Viviane Huara, Isaac Huerta & Kealana Wolfe for project entitled “Ima Hogg: Advocate for People’s Rights, Responsible Philanthropist”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
2nd Place — Bianca Farfán, Brenda Farfán & Denise López for project entitled “The Outsiders of Little Rock”
Campus: Rayford Intermediate School
3rd Place (tie) — Evelyn Gómez & Meredith Rosas for project entitled “Holocaust”
Campus: Reed Academy
3rd Place (tie) — Paloma Cruz & Maite Veloz for project entitled “Soldadares”
Campus: Reed Academy

6th Grade Individual Exhibit
1st Place — Arionne Samuels for project entitled “John Peter Zenger: A Champion of Free Press”
Campus: Wilson Intermediate School
2nd Place — Zoe Delgado for project entitled “A History of Inclusion: Educating Children With Disabilities”
Campus: Escamilla Intermediate School
2nd Place — Quierra Dilworth for project entitled “Stand Up”
Campus: Houston Academy

7th Grade Group Documentary
1st Place — Juanis Martínez, Jacob Murillo, Ashley Harrison & Tianna Smith for project entitled “Child Protective Services”
Campus: Grantham Academy

7th Grade Historical Paper
1st Place — Ángel Vega for project entitled “Pledge to Mutual Defense: NATO’s Role in the Cold War”
Campus: Stovall Middle School

7th Grade Group Website
1st Place — Paul Lyman & Moisés Vásquez for project entitled “U.S. Navy Seals”
Campus: Grantham Academy
2nd Place — Amanda Durán & Kyrstin Mark for project entitled “Japanese Interment Camps: Loyal Americans in Exile”
Campus: Lewis Middle School
3rd Place (tie) — Andrea Luna, Jess Pérez, Axel Trujillo & Isaac Veloz for project entitled “Animal Care”
Campus: Grantham Academy
3rd Place (tie) — Kayla Cervantes, Edith Gonzales & Elvi Grande for project entitled “Rights And Responsibilities: Child Abuse and Neglect”
Campus: Aldine Middle School

7th Grade Individual Website
1st Place — Ashley Nguyen for project entitled “Rights of the Aboriginal in Australia”
Campus: Stovall Middle School
2nd Place — Jordan Johnson for project entitled “Developing Rights of African Americans”
Campus: Grantham Academy

7th Grade Group Exhibit
1st Place — Julissa Haro, Diamond Ochoa & Concepción Olvera for project entitled “Women in the Military”
Campus: Grantham Academy
2nd Place — Alan Aguirre, Christian Arriaga & Alan Cholico for project entitled “Oil Refineries”
Campus: Grantham Academy

7th Grade Individual Exhibit
1st Place — Luis Rodríguez for project entitled “The Newsboy Strike of 1899”
Campus: Shotwell Middle School
2nd Place — Hunena Badat for project entitled “Social Security: A Nation’s Right & Responsibility to Citizens”
Campus: Shotwell Middle School
3rd Place — Jaelyn Lynch for project entitled “Silent Heroes; Navajo Code Talkers”
Campus: Aldine Middle School
Honorable Mention — Javier Montoya for project entitled “Women’s Rights “
Campus: Hambrick Middle School

8th Grade Group Documentary
1st Place — Bailey Henderson & Maryam Memon for project entitled “The Kindertransport: Into the Arms of Strangers”
Campus: Lewis Middle School
2nd Place — Lauren Martínez & Jasmin Navarro for project entitled “Women’s Rights in the Middle East”
Campus: Drew Academy
3rd Place — Nazaret Cruz & Rebecca Gonzales for project entitled “Rights and Inequalities: Gender Stereotypes”
Campus: Drew Academy
Honorable Mention — Melissa Angulo & Skylar Davis for project entitled “Corporal Punishment: Rights and Responsibilities Students, Teachers, Administrators Have Toward Corporal Punishment”
Campus: Hambrick Middle School

8th Grade Individual Documentary
1st Place — Alexa Moreno for project entitled “The Spark”
Campus: Grantham Academy
2nd Place — Víctor Hernández for project entitled “The March on Skokie and the Right to Assemble”
Campus: Lewis Middle School
3rd Place — Victory Gutiérrez for project entitled “Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal”
Campus: Grantham Academy
Honorable Mention — Anjonal Bruno for project entitled “Teen Pregnancy and Women’s Rights”
Campus: Drew Academy

8th Grade Group Performance
1st Place — Jessica Fortune, Tyric Hardy & Frank Macías for project entitled “Dusting Off the History Behind the Manhattan Project”
Campus: Shotwell Middle
2nd Place (tie) — Byron Henderson, Kennedi Henderson, Cierra Jackson & Tobias White for project entitled “The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
Campus: Lewis Middle School
2nd Place (tie) — Ada Argueta, Breanna Graves-Brown, Emily Hernández, Javarhea Thompson & Huan Tran for project entitled “Pictures Worth More Than A Thousand Words”
Campus: Shotwell Middle School
3rd Place — Bishop Pearsall & Luis Rubio for project entitled “African and Hispanic Rights in Education and the Military”
Campus: Drew Academy

8th Grade Individual Performance
1st Place — Nfia Goya for project entitled “Fannie Lou Hamer: The Lady Who Sings the Hymns”
Campus: Lewis Middle School

8th Grade Historical Paper
1st Place — Amber Attleson for project entitled “You Have the Right to Remain Silent”
Campus: Plummer Middle School
2nd Place (tie) — Heather Luu for project entitled “It Began With Man and Ended With Weapons”
Campus: Grantham Academy
2nd Place (tie) — Linda Duong for project entitled “DOMA”
Campus: Plummer Middle School
3rd Place — Heidy Godoy for project entitled “Elizabeth C. Stanton’s Great Struggle”
Campus: Aldine Middle School
Honorable Mention — Belén Saldana for project entitled “Roe vs. Wade”
Campus: Hambrick Middle

8th Grade Group Website
1st Place — Vyanca Carlos & Celeste Carter for project entitled “Overworked and Underpaid: The Fight for Children”
Campus: Lewis Middle School
2nd Place — Valeria Alcoser, Quincy Chatman & Areli Martínez for project entitled “Trail of Tears – Neglected Rights”
Campus: Drew Academy
3rd Place — Beatriz Lara, Lilian López, María Mena & Ailee Valle for project entitled “All Men AND WOMEN are Created Equal”
Campus: Lewis Middle School
Honorable Mention — Melisa Domínguez & Angely Nguyen for project entitled “Ladies Stand Strong”
Campus: Stovall Middle School

8th Grade Individual Website
1st Place — Denisse Córdova for project entitled “The Great Terror: The Suppressors and the Suppressed”
Campus: Hambrick Middle School
2nd Place (tie) — Giovanni Díaz for project entitled “Praise Chloroform = Holy Grail of Anesthesia”
Campus: Hambrick Middle
2nd Place (tie) — Adriana Valdez for project entitled “Alice Paul A Change in Women’s Lives”
Campus: Aldine Middle School
3rd Place — Carlos Alonso for project entitled “Play Hard or Die Tryin’”
Campus: Aldine Middle School
Honorable Mention — Mark Ordaz for project entitled “Nazi Germany: Rights and Responsibilities of a Superior Race”
Campus: Hambrick Middle School

8th Grade Group Exhibit
1st Place — Van-Anh Dang, Emily Luong, Judith Orozco, Zoe Simmons & Emily Sydavong for project entitled “Gwangju Massacre”
Campus: Shotwell Middle School
2nd Place — Cameron Lee, Alberto Morales, José Pérez, Alan Reyes & Erick Vega for project entitled “A Declaration: The Right to Commit Treason?”
Campus: Lewis Middle School
3rd Place — Juana García, Andrea Negrete & Jasmine Vásquez for project entitled “Paws Off!”
Campus: Grantham Academy

8th Grade Individual Exhibit
1st Place — Stephanie Niño de Rivera for project entitled “Education Is the Key to the Future”
Campus: Grantham Academy
2nd Place — Talia Chinn for project entitled “The Unheard”
Campus: Grantham Academy
3rd Place — Tianna Rhodes for project entitled “America’s Favorite Pastime: Jackie Mitchell’s Road to Baseball”
Campus: Aldine Middle School

9th Grade Group Documentary
1st Place — Karen Gallardo, Mary Gonzales, Emily Quan, Geraldo Salazar & Kathryn Whitehead for project entitled “Never Again, Then Again: Silent Screams of Sudan”
Campus: Nimitz Ninth Grade School
2nd Place (tie) — Joseph Marlett & Alexander Pérez for project entitled “A Bold Story of a Migrant Farm Worker: Dolores Huerta”
Campus: Davis Ninth Grade School
2nd Place (tie) — Antony Molina & Irineo Sánchez for project entitled “No Rights for Russians”
Campus: Davis Ninth Grade School

9th Grade Group Performance
1st Place — Brianna García, Edith Hernández, Bryan Lara & Isaac Penilla for project entitled “La Vida de Rigoberta Menchú: A Fight for Indigenous Rights”
Campus: Nimitz Ninth Grade School

9th Grade Historical Paper
1st Place — Cedric Rucker for project entitled “Blood, Sweatt and Tears”
Campus: Eisenhower Ninth Grade School
2nd Place (tie) — Magalí González for project entitled “Ranchers United: Challenges of the Texas Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association”
Campus: MacArthur Ninth Grade School
2nd Place (tie) — Ana Aranda for project entitled “Pro-Choice?”
Campus: Aldine Ninth Grade School
3rd Place — Karina Puente for project entitled “Rights and Responsibilities of the FCC”
Campus: MacArthur Ninth Grade School
Honorable Mention — Jarod Hercules for project entitled “Seeking Comfort of the Guardhouse, Edward D. Slovik, The Last American Executed for Desertion”
Campus: Nimitz Ninth Grade School

9th Grade Group Website
1st Place — Detrick Bell, Derrick Brown & Kameron Pryor for project entitled “Building Little Harlem”
Campus: Davis Ninth Grade School
2nd Place — Andrew Bradley, Xavier Downing, Natalie Garza, Mikayla Jefferson & Braxtyn Johnson for project entitled “Our Rights in Cuffs: The Origins of the Miranda Warning”
Campus: Nimitz Ninth Grade School
3rd Place — Jason Cravey, Jordon Dill, Óscar Guajardo & Richard Hilliard for project entitled “Ruby Bridges: Right to Education”
Campus: Davis Ninth Grade School

9th Grade Group Exhibit
1st Place — Beatriz Castro, Keundre Hawkins & James White for project entitled “The Berlin Wall, A Human Rights Violation”
Campus: Eisenhower Ninth Grade School
2nd Place — Samuel Alfaro & Yen Nguyen for project entitled “Triangle Shirt Waist Factory”
Campus: Davis Ninth Grade School

9th Grade Individual Exhibit
1st Place — Jessica Vallejo for project entitled “Doctors vs. Patients”
Campus: MacArthur Ninth Grade School
2nd Place — Badat Hamna for project entitled “MADD”
Campus: Eisenhower Ninth Grade School

10th Grade Individual Documentary
1st Place — Brent Vela for project entitled “Stealing Home”
Campus: Nimitz High School

10th Grade Historical Paper
1st Place — Óscar Vásquez for project entitled “Government Coups”
Campus: MacArthur High School
2nd Place — Ashley Yáñez for project entitled “Jim Crow Laws”
Campus: Davis Senior High School
3rd Place — Taylor Hong for project entitled “WWII”
Campus: Davis Senior High School
Honorable Mention — Rebecca Robles for project entitled “Child Labor Then and Now”
Campus: Davis Senior High School

10th Grade Group Website
1st Place — Yanely Hernández, Kimberly Lerma, Brian Nguyen & Loc Nguyen for project entitled “Experiments for a Master Race: Dr. Josef Mengle’s Rights and Responsibilities to Impact German Superiority”
Campus: Eisenhower High School
2nd Place — Sabrina Gutiérrez, Ty Hoang & Taylor Pearson for project entitled “Elizabethan Poor Law”
Campus: Davis High School
3rd Place — David Cruz, Mario Miranda & Luis Picazo for project entitled “Brutality is the Law”
Campus: Eisenhower High School
Honorable Mention — Alexander Cruz & Rohit Fnu for project entitled “Nazi Germany the Rights and Responsibilities of a Superior Race”
Campus: Davis High School

10th Grade Individual Website
1st Place — Neema Calendar for project entitled “Septima Clark: Literacy to Liberation”
Campus: Nimitz High School
2nd Place — Grace Bui for project entitled “The Famous Five”
Campus: Davis Senior High School

10th Grade Group Exhibit
1st Place — Biankah Cortez, Nurriya Mohammad & Breyonsa Rose for project entitled “Arbeit Macht Frei”
Campus: Carver High School
2nd Place — Kaylah Anderson, Danielle Guerra & Makayla Russell for project entitled “Fight Like A Girl”
Campus: Carver High School
3rd Place — Ana Colindres & Cynthia Coronado for project entitled “The Most Oppressive Regime on Earth”
Campus: Carver High School

11th Grade Group Documentary
1st Place — Christina Castro, Erica Chang, Lauren Jones & Karen Pérez for project entitled “The Angel of Death”
Campus: Carver High School
2nd Place (tie) — Elizabeth Favela & Carolina López for project entitled “The Chicano Movement in Houston, Texas”
Campus: Aldine High School
2nd Place (tie) — Joshua South & Bruce Westbrook for project entitled “Nancy Ward: Rights and Responsibilities of a Cherokee Gingau”
Campus: Carver High School
Honorable Mention — Christian Robles & Tessa Sandoval for project entitled “Bushido Warriors”
Campus: Davis High School

11th Grade Individual Documentary
1st Place — Marco Medina for project entitled “Rights and Responsibilities: Civil Rights for Hispanic Americans”
Campus: Eisenhower High School
2nd Place — Marisol Díaz for project entitled “Rights and Responsibilities of Muslim Women”
Campus: Aldine High School

11th Grade Group Performance
1st Place — Joshua Austin, Brittany Egland, Laurie Nowlin, Alexis Udorah & Kayla Williams for the project entitled “The Great Awakening: Put the Preachers in Jail”
Campus: Carver High School
2nd Place — Johnathan Franco, José Godoy Johnny Nguyen & Brian Vuong for the project entitled “Rice and Responsibilities”
Campus: Aldine High School

11th Grade Individual Performance
1st Place — Jenny Hwang for project entitled “Restricting the Rights of Parents: Family Planning in China”
Campus: Aldine High School
2nd Place — Lily Ngo for project entitled “White Walls”
Campus: Eisenhower High School

11th Grade Historical Paper
1st Place — Kyisha Butcher for project entitled “Ida B. Wells and Her Anti-Lynching Crusade”
Campus: MacArthur High School
2nd Place — Ashleigh Rogers for project entitled “Abuse of the Second Amendment: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”
Campus: Carver High School
3rd Place — Daniela Torrejón-García for project entitled “Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights”
Campus: MacArthur High School
Honorable Mention — Kevin Martínez for project entitled “Codes of War: The POW Imprisonment”
Campus: Aldine High School

11th Grade Group Website
1st Place — Samir Hassam, Bryson Keal, Bayron Puac & Daniel Ward for project entitled “The One-Sided Reformation of China”
Campus: Carver High School
2nd Place — Phat Nguyen, Jesús Pérez & Héctor Reyna for project entitled “Tokagawa Shogun”
Campus: Davis High School
3rd Place — Selena Reyes & Merelin Saravia for project entitled “Pure Food and Drug Act”
Campus: Aldine High School
Honorable Mention — Ariel Fernández, Andrew Peña-Jiménez, Gabriel Robledo, Elisabeth Rodríguez & Thomas Rodríguez, for project entitled “Title IX”
Campus: MacArthur High School
Honorable Mention — Elizabeth Álvarez-Hernández, Alison Bains, Rosio Barriga & Melissa Buruca-Mendoza for project entitled “Rights and Responsibilities of Women in the United States Military”
Campus: Aldine High School

11th Grade Individual Website
1st Place — Shara Duong for project entitled “Government Responsibility Leads to Injustice: Internment of Japanese Americans During WWII”
Campus: Aldine High School
2nd Place — Trevor Thibodeaux for project entitled “Curtis Charles Flood: The Fight That Transformed The Sports World”
Campus: Carver High School
3rd Place (tie) — Sajini Woodley for project entitled “Rights and Responsibilities of Roe v. Wade”
Campus: Aldine High School
3rd Place (tie) — Brittney Rosemon for project entitled “African American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s”
Campus: Carver High School

11th Grade Group Exhibit
1st Place — Hannah Guerrero, Zaira López, Tamara Rangel & Lourdes Rodríguez for project entitled “Japanese Internment”
Campus: MacArthur High School
2nd Place — Óscar Lázaro, Rachel Morgan, Stephanie Quintero & Manuel Rodríguez for project entitled “Child Labor: Condemning The Innocent “
Campus: Carver High School
3rd Place (tie) — Roberto Chairez, Kevin Gutiérrez & Biridiana Rodríguez for project entitled “Desegregation of Buses”
Campus: MacArthur High School
3rd Place (tie) — Marco Casillas, Héctor Reyes Lara & Víctor Reyes Lara for project entitled “The Mexican War of Independence: Rights and Responsibilities”
Campus: Aldine High School 

11th Grade Individual Exhibit
1st Place — Luis Banda for project entitled “Trail of Tears”
Campus: MacArthur High School
2nd Place — Perla Flores for project entitled “Hitler’s Superior Race”
Campus: Aldine High School
3rd Place — Gabriela Morales for project entitled “The Holocaust”
Campus: Aldine High School

12th Grade Group Documentary
 1st Place — Thalía Durán, Tomás Gonzales, Gerald Robinson, Héctor Salinas & Albert Solís for project entitled “A Fractured Nation”
Campus: Nimitz High School
2nd Place — Davian Mancilla & Edgar Vega for project entitled “Identity: The Shock Wave of a Conflicted America”
Campus: Eisenhower High School

12th Grade Group Performance
1st Place — Courtnee Conway, Deja Horn, Treasure Smith & Kayla Washington for project entitled “Freedom Riders: The Rights and Freedoms of Civil Rights Activist and the Responsibility of Government Protection”
Campus: Eisenhower High School

12th Grade Individual Performance
1st Place — Branden Ventura for project entitled “Echoes of a Riot”
Campus: Nimitz High School
2nd Place (tie) — Ana Sánchez for project entitled “From Behind the War Lens: the Rights of the Subject and the Responsibility of the Media”
Campus: Eisenhower High School
2nd Place (tie) — Mariví Ancelmo for project entitled “Director’s Cut: Behind the Scenes Look at America’s Attempt to Legislate Morality”
Campus: Eisenhower High School
3rd Place — Breyana García for project entitled “The Women of Tragedy: Women’s Rights in Pakistan”
Campus: Eisenhower High School

12th Grade Historical Paper
1st Place — Claudia Espinoza for her project entitled “Demanding Back Equality: The Gender Issue in Egypt”
Campus: Eisenhower High School

12th Grade Group Website
1st Place — Kaden Brown, Brianna McCutchen, Wilson Pérez & Brian Tea for project entitled “A Rebel for the Right to Know”
Campus: Nimitz High School
2nd Place — Julio González, Jessica Navarro, Gaby Pérez, Jacqueline Rivas & Nhi Vu for project entitled “Secret Rights and Responsibilities of a Deciphering War”
Campus: Carver High School
3rd Place — Jonathan Baird, Jimmaine Banks, Javon Robinson, Kevin Valdes & Patrick Wade for project entitled “César Chávez: Fighting for”
Campus: Carver High School

12th Grade Individual Website
1st Place — Alexis Speer for project entitled “Equal in the Eyes of God”
Campus: Nimitz High School

12th Grade Group Exhibit
1st Place — Lázaro Rojas, Marvin Thomas, Judit Urrea, Hannah Medina & Carolina Chala for project entitled “The Right-On Right to Vote”
Campus: Nimitz High School