2025 Special Award Winners
Projects listed here received special recognition from one of our special award sponsors.
2025 Special Award Winners
Baylor Law School Allison McCoy Casper Bowden: The Reason for Better Internet Privacy Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School Baylor Law School Dylan Kelly, Sophia Somers Claudette Colvin Sarah McConnell Northstar School Baylor Law School Peyton Ybarra, Zaira DeLeon, Zendaya Peniston Title IX Amanda Pyle LAKE AIR MONTESSORI SCHOOL Baylor Law School Ayla Wakershauser, Jannette Davis, Leyla Martinez, Neha Bhat, Raye Johnson Radium Girls: The Radiating Case That Protects the Rights and Responsibilities of Workers Kyle Egan SOUTH BELTON MIDDLE Baylor University Institute for Oral History NONE Bell County Museum Emery Hobson and Sarah Jackson "Make Somebody Happy Today - Bake a Cake" : Betty Crocker's Views on Women's Rights and Responsibilities in the Home Paige Hooten Lake Belton Middle School Bell County Museum Elysse Bui Stolen Rights: The Hidden History of Japanese Internment Camps Elizabeth Howson North Belton Middle School Brazos Forum Abigail Wickman, Eden Mccallum, Emma Porter Stolen Land: The Wichita Confederacy Stacey Bovell Belton Middle School Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Sterling C. Robertson Chapter NONE Dr Pepper Museum Ciera Saldana, Eliza Smith, Grace Scott, Romina Dracos Fordlandia: Henry Ford's Folly Amanda Pyle LAKE AIR MONTESSORI SCHOOL Festival on the Brazos Caroline Taube Japanese American Internment: The Rights and Responsibilities of America During WWII Leslie Segura TENNYSON MIDDLE Historic Waco Daniel Olmstead Doris Miller - Responsible Sailor to Rights Trailblazer Kim Olmstead Olmstead Homeschool Historic Waco Abigail Wickman, Eden Mccallum, Emma Porter Stolen Land: The Wichita Confederacy Stacey Bovell Belton Middle School McLennan County Historical Commission Abigail Wickman, Eden Mccallum, Emma Porter Loss of Land: Wichita Confederacy Stacey Bovell Belton Middle School McLennan County Historical Commission Daniel Olmstead Doris Miller - Responsible Sailor to Rights Trailblazer Kim Olmstead Olmstead Homeschool Museum Association of Waco Khloe Cho The British Raj: Gandi's Path to Independence of India Leslie Segura TENNYSON MIDDLE Museum Association of Waco Alexandra Bui Striking for Rights: The 1981 Air Traffic Controllers’ Strike and the Fight for Workers’ Justice Michael Krecker Lake Belton High School National Society of the Colonial Dames - Waco Town Committee Chloe Wittman, Gracelyn Garelick, Kathryn Peterson, Sydney Harvey Deborah Sampson: The Double Life Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Gordon Bradley Chapter Logan Shafer The Fairfax Resolves: Rights and Responsibilities of the American Colonists Deborah Shafer Shafer Homeschool National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Gordon Bradley Chapter Sophia Wheeler Taxation Without Representation Leading to the American Revolution Samantha Preece Troy Elementary National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Henry Downs Chapter Chaselyn Greer Federalists Anti-Federalists: Rights Require Responsibility Kristen Greer Greer Home School The Links, Inc., Waco Ansley Siemer Tuskegee Tragedy: Where did CDC go Wrong Sarah McConnell Northstar School The Links, Inc., Waco Dylan Kelly, Sophia Somers Claudette Colvin Sarah McConnell Northstar School The Links, Inc., Waco Madeleine Ponder Child Labor During the Industrial Revolution: The Fight For Education Leslie Segura Tennyson Middle School The Links, Inc., Waco Gala Ward, Katie Cannon, Lael Coffie Child labor Sarah Manning Central Texas Christian School The Links, Inc., Waco Chloe Wittman, Gracelyn Garelick, Kathryn Peterson, Sydney Harvey Deborah Sampson: The Double Life Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School The Texas Collection Daniel Olmstead Doris Miller - Responsible Sailor to Rights Trailblazer Kim Olmstead Olmstead Homeschool Waco Hispanic Museum NONE W. R. Poage Legislative Library Logan Shafer The Fairfax Resolves: Rights and Responsibilities of the American Colonists Deborah Shafer Shafer Homeschool