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Fairbanks History fair winners released

History came back to life in the Wood Center Ballroom last week — Rosa Parks rode again, Truman decided to drop the bomb, Chief Joseph vowed to fight no more — as local students from the school district took part in the 10th annual Fairbanks History Day Fair.

Hosted by the UAF Office of Public History, about 450 students from 5th to 12th grades produced exhibits, documentaries, research papers, Web sites and performances exploring the themes of “Conflict and Compromise.”

This year’s fair was the largest in the 10-year history of the event, according to coordinator and UAF History Professor Terrence Cole. The following is a list of winners from the event.

High school individual exhibit

1st: Stephanie Russell, Prohibition: The Death of John Barleycorn

2nd: Britney Tabone, Graffiti, Art or Crime

3rd: Aurora Roth, Creationism vs. Evolution: The Roots of the Education Conflict

Honorable mention:

Kari Nore, The Great Constitutional Compromise

Abigail Alling, Alaska Compromise

Vincent Valenti, The Cuban Missile Crisis

Mallory Daml, Agent Orange

Katrina Dawson, The Battle of Antietam

Trevor Adams, Northern Ireland

Michael Spears, Conflict and Compromise: The Korean War

Jamie Walker, Shiran Ebadi: Iran’s Iron-Jawed Angel

High school group exhibit

1st: Sarah Mierotto and Katie Callahan, Corruption, Controversy, Compromise

2nd: Bobby Ison, Rita Spann, and Sophia May, A “Noble Experiment”: Prohibition

3rd: Sam Allen, Curtis Henry, Erik Hernandez, John Dutton, Devon Fitzpatrick, Little Boy: The First Big Bomb of Mankind

Honorable Mention

Amara Simmons and Shelly Dewilde, Pop Art: Conflict of Media and Reality

Chris Wentland, Keith Lemay, and Cohl Fell, Korean War/Conflict Halted by Compromise

Annie Bender and Claire Todd, Behind Closed Doors

Krystal Williams and Kristen Hickman, The U2 Incident

Matthew Stoller, Chris Wilterding and Bryan Tamse, Conflicts and Compromises of the Electric Car

Middle school individual exhibit

1st: Delaney Eller, Title IX: Is Funding for Women’s Sports Equal?

2nd: Heather Parson, USA Patriot Act; Can You Hear Me Now?

3rd: Kipp Wilkinson Alaska: A Place for Nuclear Testing?

Honorable Mention

Shelby Perkins, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Kendal Rowe, Pledge of Allegiance

Mikayla Hamlin, The Scopes Trial

Chloe Deruyter, Blood Diamonds

Ashleigh Smith , Rutgers vs. Imus

Erica Ripley, Alice Paul: The Suffragist

Middle School Group Exhibits

1st: Abby Dunham, Kailyn Sumpter, Nicole Hollens, and Michelle Holland, Aim on Alcatraz: The Conlict of the Indian Occupation

2nd: Anna Jensen, Shellby Rood, Aly Sharrah, Berlin Airlift: Cold War Conflict

3rd: Adam Bostic and Adam Norton, D-Day: The Compromise to End the War

Honorable Mention

Ciarra Chesnik, Hannah Hampton, Brittany Ward, Kelly Bringhust, Alice Paul: The Conflict of the 19th Amendment

Oneta Cantlon, Martin Luther

Maddy Averett, Kaylee Luskleet, Justin Musselman, and Josey Tomlinson, Relocation of Japanese Americans

Akayla Gednalske, Kody Byram, Hannah Aceves, Sarah Kennedy, and Jenn Byrd, The Vietnam War

Steven Lasley and Eric Jakkola, Pearl Harbor

Novice division exhibits

1st: Raken Andreson, Ashely Ruedy, Halley Patton, Hank Aaron: His Own Best Argument

2nd: Brooklyn Wardle and Sam Childress, Clara Barton: Inspirational Angel

3rd: Nathaniel Taylor, Attack on Pearl Harbor

Honorable Mention

Shenella Champlin, Serina Shoemaker, Tyler Wilbur, Malaga Island

Justice Kramer, Andrew Risner, Megan Arend, Megan Smith, Zimmerman Telegram

Mia Jardin , Battle of Britain: British Military Aircraft vs. German Military Aircraft

High school papers

1st: Joe Byrnes, Deregulation of the US Airline Industry and the Rise of Aggressive Competition in Air Travel

2nd (tied): Haleley Just, A Rose by Any Other Name: Tokyo Rose

2nd (tied): Emilia Monroe, Are Women People? Women’s Fight for Voting Rights

3rd: Alison Mulhollen, Nuremberg: World’s First War Tribunal

Honorable Mention

Aerielle Field, Cheating: Football’s Worst Enemy

Middle school papers

1st: Kevin Michael Styers, The Genocide That Wasn’t?: Armenian Massacre

2nd: Frances Johnson, Abdication

3rd: Morgan Schroeder, The Great, Bloody Battle for Okinawa

High school performance

1st: Carolyn Dellinger, and Sarah Thomas, U.S. Modernization of Japan and the Meiji Era

Middle school performance

1st: Sheldon Innes, Jonathan Sponsel, Nicholas Menicacci, and David Best, Boxcar Kids.

High school Web site design

1st: Cody McClure, and Michael Ortego, The Dambargo and Why It Didn’t Work

High School Group Documentary

1st (tied): Amber Fulkerson and Carlton Eide, The Flint Sit-Down Strikes

1st (tied): Domenik Davis and Jamey Wicklund, The “Noble Experiment” The Rise and Decline of Prohibition

2nd: Michelle Bullard and Jenna Pugliese, The Salem Witch Trials: A Clash Between Dogma and the Unorthodox

3rd: Kira Johnson and Kara Welch, The Heart of the Irish Immigrant

Honorable Mention

Morgan Hostina, The DMZ in Korea

Jaime Ness, Anna Gabriel, Deborah Hewitt, Julia Gilhuly, The Hartford Convention

High school individual

documentary

1st: Matthew Radford, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Justification of a Necessary Evil

Middle school individual

documentary

1st: Kendra Frey, Was Germany’s Favorite Composer a Nazi?

Middle school group

documentary

1st: Lucy Shilanski, Rachel Richardson, Megan Sliger, The Fight for What is Right: Alice Hamilton and a Career of Inequality

2nd: Christopher Cooper and Garrett Nickle, Conflict with Chemistry: Weapons We Weren’t Ready For

3rd (tied): Reily McIntosh, Tre Pitts, and Tyler Hill, The War Controlled by Fear: The Story of the Nuclear Arms Race

3rd (tied): Ben Rhines and Brian Reinert, The Salem Witch Trials

Honorable Mention

Austin Mueller, Devin Hines and Rob Losse, From Territory to Statehood: Alaska’s Journey

Tori Legerat and Alicia Gross, Conflict on a Bus: Ride That Would Change History in America (Rosa Parks)

J. Anthony Ruiz and Mason Schoemaker, Chief Joseph: The Conflict With the “White Man”

Holocaust essay competition announced

The Jewish Congregation of Fairbanks (Congregation Or Ha’ Tzafon) is pleased to announce its annual “Holocaust Essay Scholarship Contest.” The theme this year will be “The Limits of Humanity: The Meaning of Genocide in the Modern World.”

The writer of the best essay on that subject will be awarded a $500 scholarship.The judges this year will be members of the university faculty.

Entrants must be either junior or senior high school students. Entries should be no more than 1,000 words in length, double-spaced and neatly word-processed.  Please address submissions to Holocaust Essay Contest, Jewish Congregation of Fairbanks, PO Box 74863, 1744 Aurora Dr., Fairbanks, AK 99707.  Email: orhatzafon@mosquitonet.com  Fax:  907-479-2165.   All entries must be received by no later than April 14.  If you will be delivering your essay to the physical address, the office is open Monday and Thursday only, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., please call for inquiries, 456-1002.