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