Fifty-one Fort Bend ISD secondary school students were named winners of the 10th annual Fort Bend Regional Texas History Day Competition, held March 3 at Sartartia Middle School. The competition welcomed students from Fort Bend ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, and Fort Bend County home-schooled students. The contest required students to choose historical topics related to the theme “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History” and conduct extensive research through libraries, archives, museums, oral history interviews and historic sites. After analyzing and interpreting their sources and drawing conclusions about their topics’ significance in history, students presented their work in original papers, websites, exhibits, performances and documentaries. The winners will go on to compete at the Texas History Day Competition, which will be held May 4-5 in Austin, Texas.
Fort Bend ISD students earned the following awards:
Senior (grades 9-12) Divisions
Group Websites
2nd place, Willowridge High School – Boris Elias, Karla Guerra, Stacey Buchanan, Julio Vidal (Entry Title: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity): The French Revolution)
Group Performances
2nd place – Willowridge High School – Porche Laster, Briana Cameau, Tia Thomas, Sierra Thorn (Entry Title: The Real Housewives of the American Revolution)
Individual Documentaries
• 1st place, Ridge Point High School – Malynn Anne Ilanga (Entry Title: When the Nation was Rocked)
• 2nd place, Ridge Point High School – Marleini Ilanga (Entry Title: Florence Nightingale: The Lady With the Lamp)
Individual Exhibits
• 1st place, Ridge Point High School – Tamara Coleman (Entry Title: Bolshevik Revolution)
• 2nd place, Ridge Point High School – Lyndsey Burton (Entry Title: England’s Borders)
Individual Performances
• 1st place, Ridge Point High School – Amanda Brady (Entry Title: Barbie: A Revolutionary Idea)
• 2nd place, Ridge Point High School – Vince Vaughan (Entry Title: 9-11)
Individual Websites
2nd place, Travis High School – Eric Saldanha (Entry Title: Perestroika: Deadly Reform for an Unstable State)
Junior (grades 6-8) Divisions
Group Websites
• 1st place, Quail Valley Middle School – Jenny Liu and Cher Liu (Entry Title: Impressionism’s Revolution: Achille-Claude Debussy)
• 2nd place, First Colony Middle School – Baonan Ji, Nandan Marwaha, Noel Shen (Entry Title: Revolution, Reaction, Reform: Hungarian Revolution of 1956)
Group Exhibits
• 1st place, Sartartia Middle School – Sanjana Kalvakuntla, Kiran Patel, Sanjana Kapoor and Dara Lawal (Entry Title: Co-Education Integration: How Women Transformed the Face of Texas A&M)
• 2nd place, Quail Valley Middle School – Elsbeth Chow, Danielle Hertel, Sherenna Mathew (Entry Title: Coca Cola)
Group Performances
• 1st place, Sartartia Middle School – Natasha Muppala, Smrithi Ramachandran, Zibaa Pirani (Entry Title: Vital Vaccination)
• 2nd place, Sartartia Middle School – Abigail Cloudy, Melinda Cloudy (Entry Title: Women’s Equality in Sports Gained from Title IX)
Group Documentaries
• 1st place, Quail Valley Middle School – Omeed Faegh, Dhruva Karkada, Varun Rajaram, Saarang Panchavati, Ashwin Hareesh (Entry Title: Tunisian Revolution)
• 2nd place, First Colony Middle School – Davis Dunham, Emilio Jamerlan, Joshua Wang, Colin Waldorf (Entry Title: 1986 EDSA Revolutions: A Life-Changing Experience)
Individual Documentaries
• 1st place, Sartartia Middle School – Marina Zafiris (Entry Title: The Legacy of the Malboro Man: The Life and Death of a Revolution)
• 2nd place, Sartartia Middle School – Paige Loux (Entry Title: The Love Canal: A Toxic Tragedy)
Individual Exhibits
• 1st place, Sartartia Middle School – Raj Rao (Entry Title: India’s Green Revolution)
• 2nd place, Sartartia Middle School – Kaitlyn Chalmers (Entry Title: Admission of Women to the Citadel)
Individual Performances
• 1st place, First Colony Middle School – Laura Pepper (Entry Title: A Lost Childhood)
• 2nd place, Garcia Middle School – Arianna Carr (Entry Title: Claudette Colvin)
Individual Websites
• 1st place, Fort Settlement Middle School – Naveen Jain (Entry Title: Internet Revolution: Father of all Modern Revolutions)
• 2nd place, Sartartia Middle School – Avanthika Mahendrababu (Entry Title: Weather Satellites: Taking the World by Storm)
Historical Papers
• 1st place, Sartartia Middle School – Trey Tobias (Entry Title: No Laughing Matter: The American Revolution Against Comic Books)
• 2nd place, Fort Settlement Middle School – Samir Rahi (Entry Title: Communism: The Revolution that Changed History)