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Baylor BU Heart of Texas Regional History Fair Awards 2024 State Qualifiers
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2024 State Qualifiers

Elementary Group Poster

First Place

Isabelle Baldridge, Jacob Burgan, Josue Cortez Gonzalez, & Jonathin Wells 

The Creation of Yellowstone National Park 

Leon Heights Elementary

 

Second Place

Logan Adams & Cash Smith 

How 9/11 changed Airline Security 

Miller Heights Elementary

 

Third Place 

Jaylynne Brizuella, Ethan Hovland, Lydia Koger, & Clover Portillo 

Impact of the Germ Theory of Disease 

Miller Heights Elementary

 

Elementary Individual Poster

First Place

Weston Rodriguez 

Pearl Harbor: The Awakening of a Sleeping Giant 

Sparta Elementary

 

Second Place

Carter Rivera 

Waco Contributes to the Cause in World War I 

Woodway Elementary

 

Third Place

Jesse Weige 

The Invention of the Atomic Bomb 

Central Texas Christian School

 

Junior Individual Documentary 
First Place

Lydia Droege, Isabell Howson, Emry Olivarez, & Adalyn Ramos 

LBJ: Turning Lives Around 

North Belton Middle School

 

Second Place

Neil Devaraj, Mackenzie Pardon, Reid Ramirez, Katelyn Sanders, & Allison Webb 

How the Dust Bowl changed Agriculture Legislation   

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Third Place

Caleb Dixon, Xavier Larson, Parker Rogers, & Isaac Thornock 

The Secret Service: Turning Points that Never Happened 

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Senior Group Documentary

First Place

Chinonso Ogwudu, Dayne Puffer, Daniel Regian, & Natalie Van Cleave 

A Road to the Future: How the Transcontinental Railroad changed America for the better 

Belton New Tech High School

 

Second Place

Daniel Barnett, Caden Choat, & Javier Venegas 

The Spanish Flu 

 McGregor High School

 

Junior Individual Exhibit

First Place

Henry Ochoa 

 Deja Flu 

Tennyson Middle School

 

Second Place

Aaliyah Smitherman 

The Forgotten Scientist: Raymond Damadian 

North Belton Middle School

 

Third Place

Hayden Maroney

One Heart Beat at a Time: The Story of Michael DeBakey 

North Belton Middle School

 

Junior Group Exhibit

First Place

Kanyon Crawley, Jentry Ferguson, & Mariel Kacal 

Enheduanna: She Who Wrote 

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Second Place

Jack Fugitt, Cali Lynch, Rori McPherson, Memphis Moore, & Emma Ward 

The Four Jets That Stunned The U.S. 

Moody Middle School

 

Third Place

Mehul Bansal, Navraj Dhaliwal, Phillip Eggleston, Andrew Hajovsky, & Lucas Trindade 

Stephenson Clarke Shipping Company: The Economic Transformation of the Shipping Industry in Europe

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Senior Group Exhibit

First Place

Hazel Davidson, Stella Davidson, & Gabriela Gonzalez Alanis 

From Dust to Dust: How the Dust Bowl Revolutionized Agriculture and Society 

Midway High School

 

Second Place

Dacey Dougherty & Celia Focarile 

Beyond the Plastic: The Impact of Barbie as an Empowering Symbol of Feminine Identity 

Midway High School

 

Third Place

Cheyenne Anderson, Olivia Shaffer, & Carolina Waters 

Sinking Ship Saves Lives 

McGregor High School

 

Senior Individual Exhibit

First Place

Alexandra Bui 

Turning the Page: The Sears Catalog's Impact On African Americans 

Lake Belton High School

 

Second Place

Araya Bourgeois 

The Stonewall Uprising 

McGregor High School

 

Third Place

Isaiah Abts 

Turning Point in History: The Israeli War Of Independence

 

Junior Paper

First Place

Ellliana Adams 

Automated External Defibrillators: A Heart Starting Turning Point 

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Second Place

Caroline Taube 

USSR 

Tennyson Middle School

 

Third Place

Creighton Carroll 

Modeling the Future; How CAD has forever changed engineering

South Belton Middle

 

Senior Paper

First Place

Lena Cook 

Gegen Paragraph 218: the German Movement for Reproductive Rights 

Belton High School


Second Place

Abigail Olmstead 

Caution from the Winds: How Waco Weathered the Storm 

Olmstead Homeschool

 

Third Place

Dalton Martin 

The Path to Modern Japan: How the Meiji Restoration Brought Changes and Influences that Lead to the Japan of Today 

McGregor High School

 

Junior Individual Performance

First Place

Arren Weatherby 

Susan B Anthony: How She Turned One Vote to Millions   

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Junior Group Performance

First Place

Carly Betbeze & Addison Gaughan 

Changing the Medical Field: The Story of Clara Barton   

North Belton Middle School

 

Second Place

Jackson Dolotina, Caleb Eckert, Taytum Hobson,  & Alyssa Naumann 

Susanna Dickinson and the Changing of a Story 

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Senior Group Performance

First Place

Will Aaron, Jacob Bell, Madilynn Hamilton, & Gerardo Reyes Gonzalez 

Yalta: A New Type of Peace 

McGregor High School

 

Senior Individual Performance

First Place

Rachel Davenport 

The Treaty of Waitangi 

Midway High School

 

Second Place

Jonah Foster 

Alexander Hamilton and the Writings that Impacted America 

Grapeland High School

 

Senior Individual Website

First Place

Logan Shafer 

The Polgar Sisters: A Turning Point for Women in Chess 

Shafer Homeschool

 

Junior Individual Website

First Place

Elysse Bui 

Saving Lives one Gene at a Time 

North Belton Middle School

 

Second Place

Lillian Escamilla 

Culper Spy Ring: The Advantage of Information 

South Belton Middle School

 

Third Place

Cannon Carroll 

Pearl Harbors impact on changing the tide of World War II 

South Belton Middle School

 

Junior Group Website

First Place

Anna Exaire, Abigail Kim, Brenna McKoy, & Bridget Tosse

Jenner's Discovery and Creation of the Smallpox Vaccine; Resulting in the First Eradication Calvin B. Smith Award of Disease in the World

Lake Belton Middle School

 

Second place

Evan Foster, Kieran Konvicka, & Maxwell Ramirez 

Hannibal Barca: Rome's Greatest Threat 

South Belton Middle School

 

Third Place

Kenzie McPherson & Wynne Houghton 

The Positive and Negative Impacts of Technology in Education

Moody Middle School

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