2025 Special Award Winners
Projects listed here received special recognition from one of our special award sponsors.
2026 Special Award Winners
Baylor Law School Avery Ankenbruck Revolution, Reaction, Reform, Legal Revolution in Abortion Rights Steve Spooner Harbor Christian Academy Baylor Law School Josue Cortez Gonzalez The Lasting Impact of School Segregation Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School Baylor Law School Nandini Sreeram Justice On Trail: The State Of Criminal Justice In America Joshua McCaslin Temple High School Baylor Law School Avery Newbanks & Blakely Stockdale Dorothea Dix: Prison & Asylum Reform Elizabeth Howson North Belton Middle School Baylor Law School Brynlee Newberry, Emry Olivarez, Isabelle Howson, McKenna Brindley, Swikriti Lamichhane The Forgotten Story: How One State's Reaction Caused Another's Reform Richard Clubine Lake Belton High School Baylor University Institute for Oral History Brynlee Newberry, Emry Olivarez, Isabelle Howson, McKenna Brindley, Swikriti Lamichhane The Forgotten Story: How One State's Reaction Caused Another's Reform Richard Clubine Lake Belton High School Bell County Museum Emery Hobson, Mya Kacal, & Sarah Jackson Brought to You by the Letter R! As a Reaction to Poverty, Sesame Street Became the Revolutionary Idea that Reformed Children's Television Deborah Hosch Lake Belton Middle School Bell County Museum Caryn Cloutier Picture Justice - How Photography Revolutionized Evidence and Reformed America’s Law As We Know it Today Deborah Hosch Lake Belton Middle School Bell County Museum Brynlee Newberry, Emry Olivarez, Isabelle Howson, McKenna Brindley, Swikriti Lamichhane The Forgotten Story: How One State's Reaction Caused Another's Reform Richard Clubine Lake Belton High School Bell County Museum Charlie Wagner Woodstock: How a Music Festival Ended the Vietnam War Christopher Lemley Belton High School Brazos Forum Abigail Wickman From Convicts to Cowboys: The Texas Prison Rodeo Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Sterling C. Robertson Chapter Devansh Katragadda A Buck's Fight for Freedom: The Story of William Barret Travis—Texas Hero, Martyr, and Revolutionist Deborah Hosch Lake Belton Middle School Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Sterling C. Robertson Chapter Jayce Vasquez Tejanos Forgotten Heroes of the Texas Revolution Destiny Cilumba Cesar Chavez Middle School Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Sterling C. Robertson Chapter Alaina Beck, Awnalee Rodriguez, Rylie Venema & Willow Rodriguez Texas Revolution Richard Russon South Belton Middle School Dr Pepper Museum Victoria Matos The Ortelius Atlas Manuel Gibson La Vega High School Historic Waco Arnold Cruz, Fletcher Woodward, Makayla Moffatte, Maria Leyva, Siara Whitfield Waco at the Crossroads: Revolution, Backlash, and the Fight for Non-White Civil Rights Christopher Freeman Waco High School Historic Waco Joshua Abts Blackland Army Airfield Cindy Abts McLennan County Historical Commission Jacob Burgan The Creation of Baylor Scott & White Elizabeth Howson North Belton Middle School McLennan County Historical Commission Abigail Wickman From Convicts to Cowboys: The Texas Prison Rodeo Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School McLennan County Historical Commission Joshua Abts Blackland Army Airfield Cindy Abts Museum Association of Waco Viana Nguyen August Revolution Joshua McCaslin Temple High School Museum Association of Waco Drew Potts The Fall of the Berlin Wall Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School National Society of the Colonial Dames - Waco Town Committee Greer Bledsoe & Vianca Nava Abigail Adams: Another Woman that Stood Up Leslie Segura Tennyson Middle School National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Gordon Bradley Chapter Greer Bledsoe & Vianca Nava Abigail Adams: Another Woman that Stood Up Leslie Segura Tennyson Middle School National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Gordon Bradley Chapter Andraya Lozano The American Revolution Destiny Cilumba Cesar Chavez Middle School National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Henry Downs Chapter Greer Bledsoe & Vianca Nava Abigail Adams: Another Woman that Stood Up Leslie Segura Tennyson Middle School The Links, Inc., Waco Aaliyah Smitherman, Abigail Kim, Ashdhiya Fathima, Kyra Shah, Mehul Bansal From Silence to Safety: The Jane Collective's Role in Reproductive Rights Richard Clubine Lake Belton High School The Links, Inc., Waco Caden Elliott, Dalton Forsburg, Diego Reyes Miracle at Haiti Madison Bishop McGregor High School The Links, Inc., Waco Precious Isaac China's One Child Policy Joshua McCaslin Temple High School The Links, Inc., Waco Avery Ankenbruck Revolution, Reaction, Reform, Legal Revolution in Abortion Rights Steve Spooner Harbor Christian Academy The Texas Collection Abigail Wickman From Convicts to Cowboys: The Texas Prison Rodeo Corinna Capraun Belton Middle School W. R. Poage Library Riley Ramirez Created Equal: The Fight for Women's Suffrage Christopher Lemley Belton High School