Coastal Bend Regional History Fair, 2012 Announces Winners
On Saturday, March 3rd, the John E. Conner Museum hosted the 31st annual Coastal Bend Regional
History Fair at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Memorial Student Union Building. Students
from Alice ISD, Aransas County ISD (Rockport-Fulton), Brooks County (Falfurrias) ISD, Corpus
Christi ISD, Flour Bluff ISD, Riviera ISD, Santa Gertrudis School ISD, Seashore Middle Academy
(Seashore Charter School) and Incarnate Word Middle Level Academy (Diocese of Corpus Christi)
showcased their research entries based on the National History Day theme, Revolution, Reaction,
Reform in History.
The National History Day program is devoted to encouraging the active study of history through
research and the analysis of student selected topics. After selecting their topic, students gathered and
analyzed their findings. Original entries were judged in the following divisions, Senior (grades 9-12)
and Junior (grades 6-8), and in the following categories: documentary, exhibit, performance,
interpretative website and research paper. State Qualifiers earned the opportunity to represent our area
at the Texas History Day competition in Austin on May 5-6, 2012.
The Winners included:
State Qualifiers:
Junior Individual Historical Paper:
“Televisions: The Cultural Revolution”
Noah Garcia
Incarnate Word Middle Level
“Year Zero: How Communism and the Cold War Deformed Cambodia”
Kacey Manlove
Rockport-Fulton Middle School
State Alternate:
“The Boxer Rebellion”
Joseph Barnhart
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
Junior Individual Interpretive Web Site:
State Qualifiers:
“Food Revolution: How the Book “The Jungle” Helped Reform an Entire Industry”
Caroline Downes
Dubose Intermediate/Alice ISD
“Dogs Revolutionize Drug Seizures: K-9 Border Patrol”
Kendra Johnson
de la Paz Middle School/Riviera ISD
State Alternate:
“Pablo Picasso: Revolution in Art”
Natalia Torres
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
Junior Group Interpretive Web Site:
State Qualifiers:
“The Story of Rock”
Andrea Flores and Carlo Manriques
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
“Dorothea Dix: Breaking the Chains”
Carlos Garcia and Martina Gonzalez-Canales
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
State Alternate:
“Television Evolving”
Ysenia Montemayor and Makayla Trevino
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
Junior Individual Exhibits:
State Qualifiers:
“You Are Not the Center of the Universe”
Charles Lemon
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
“Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Revolt That Re-FORMED Jewish History”
Timothy Kelley
Rockport-Fulton Middle School
State Alternate:
“Our Lady of the Angels”
Thalia Parizot
Incarnate Word Middle Level
Junior Group Exhibits:
State Qualifiers:
“Oil it is, Black Gold, Texas Tea: Spindletop”
John Arnold, Stephen Lovoi and Matthew Mofitt
Incarnate Word Middle Level
“Railroads and Canals”
Mia Arenas and Brianna Gonzales
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
State Alternate:
“Vatican II: Modern Reformation of the Catholic Church”
Danielle Harrel, Paris Hanna, Jackie Rodriguez and Helena Van Maren
Incarnate Word Middle Level
Junior Individual Performances:
State Qualifiers:
“Mustard Gas: From Weapon of Death to Promise of Life”
Jake Manlove
Rockport-Fulton Middle School
“The Haitan Revolution”
Alainya Eberhard
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
State Alternate:
“Governmental Views of the People during the Great Depression”
Sydney Priddy
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
Junior Group Performances:
State Qualifiers:
“Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” The Environmental Revolution”
Hailey Fairas and Victoria Vicente
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
“Burning Through Time”
Tyler Battice, Christian Kocian and Dana Vital
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
State Alternate:
“Curt Flood”
Rose Torres, Donte Joseph, Megan Munoz, Kyrstin Garcia and Alexis Estringel
Memorial Intermediate School/Alice ISD
Junior Individual Documentary:
State Qualifiers:
“The Camera: An Unintentional Revolutionary in Art”
Hattie Christiansen
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
“Simon Bolivar and the Latin American Revolution”
Jose Perez
William Adams Middle School/Alice ISD
State Alternate:
“The Airplane”
Thomas Loeffler
Incarnate Word Middle Level
Junior Group Documentary:
State Qualifiers:
“The Longoria Affair”
Jule Moya and Pablo Rivera
Incarnate Word Middle Level
“Katherine Stinson: Revolutionizing Women’s Roles in Aviation”
Devyn Hamblin and Kyle Bunger
de la Paz Middle School/Riviera ISD
State Alternate:
“The Two Hours that Shook the World”
Cassandra Huff, Ellie Martin and Kate Pekar
Incarnate Word Middle Level
Senior Individual Historical Paper
State Qualifiers:
“The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Human Rights”
Sonal Ahuja
Carroll High School
“Chemotheraphy”
Sara Surani
Carroll High School
State Alternate:
“Rockin’ Revolution: How Rock n Roll Changed America & Why its Here to Stay
Shelby Dougherty
Alice High School
Senior Individual Interpretive Web Site:
State Qualifiers:
“Spindletop: Dawn of an Era”
Jacqueline Bolden
Carroll High School
“Isadora Duncan, A Revolutionary From Classical Ballet to Modern Dance”
Larissa Salazar
Alice High School
State Alternate:
“The Equal Rights Amendments: A Step Toward Total Women Equality”
Tiffany Hinojosa
Alice High School
Senior Group Interpretive Web Site:
State Qualifiers:
“Apple, Inc.”
Shih-Ming Wang, Shannon Palacios & Kelly Palacios
Carroll High School
“Germ Theory: A Revolution in Medicine”
Kelsey McIntyre & Lucy Huang
Flour Bluff High School
State Alternate:
“Manifest Destiny: Evolutionary Transformation”
David Mata & Pamela Cuellar
Falfurrias High School
Senior Individual Exhibits:
State Qualifers:
“A Revolutionary Officer: America’s First Admiral”
Leonel Villarreal
Falfurrias High School
“Revolutionizing Combat One Woman at a Time”
Rachel Johnson
Kaufer High School/Riviera ISD
State Alternate:
“Baroque: A Beautiful Music Revolution”
Sylvia Ruiz
Falfurrias High School
Senior Group Exhibits:
State Qualifiers:
“Henry Ford’s Model T”
Sterling Burns, Seth Kuhaneck, Forrest Slasberry, Esau Galindo and Putthinan Thongmak
Collegiate High School/Corpus Christ ISD
“Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Tragedy Ignites Reform”
John Gonzales, Jose Garza, Alexandria Guerra and D’Andrea Escobar
Falfurrias High School
State Alternate:
“Is This Not Love?: The Revolutionary Life of Helen Keller”
Elissa Montalvo, Olivia Gutierrez, Christina Pena and Marissa Cantu
Falfurrias High School
Senior Group Performances:
State Qualifiers:
“Reaction To a Mother’s Heartache Reforms American Military Rules”
Krystal Hinojosa and Alex Barrera
Falfurrias High School
“The French Revolution: A Revolution in Society and Thought”
Andres Elizondo, Celilia Eberhard, Elisa Paiz, Kristen Franki and Sergio Montemayor
Alice High School
Senior Individual Documentary:
State Qualifiers:
“’Til Death Do Us Part”
Sydney Bernal
Flour Bluff High School
“Smallpox Eradication: Reforming the World”
Simone Menezes
Carroll High School
State Alternate:
“Black Gold”
Muhammed Patel
Carroll High School
Senior Group Documentary:
State Qualifiers:
“Trailblazing Female Photojournalist”
Madison Bailey Moor and Lauren Escamilla
Alice High School
“Bread, Land and Peace: The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917”
Gregory Vela and Diego Rivera
Falfurrias High School
State Alternate:
“Sterilization in Surgery: A Medical Revolution”
Madison Beltran and Samantha Perez
Alice High School