Richland students prepared, presented and participated in History Day with a variety of papers, exhibits and other projects earlier this month. Students in Terry Carmack and Michael Glisson’s classes worked  with the central theme of “Revolution, Rection, Reform In History.”

Local winners are eligible to participate in the regional History Day, and those winners move on to the state program.

National History Day in Missouri (NHDMO) is a yearlong history education program, sponsored by The State Historical Society of Missouri, in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council. The program encourages young people to explore history and teaches them to understand historical issues, ideas, people and events.

Participants conduct in-depth research and analysis on individual topics related to an annual theme and present their findings in one of several formats -- exhibit, performance, documentary, website, or paper -- designed to foster creativity and imagination. These presentations are evaluated by history, education, and other experts at a series of local, state, and national contests.

Winners of the local History Day at Richland include:

Junior Individual Performance

• Martin Luther King’s speech by Gavin Hux

Senior Individual Historical paper

• 3rd - The Airplane Revolution In Warfare  by Nick Petty
• 2nd - Dorthea Dix and the Asylum Movement by Kayla Uhles
• 1st -The Copernican Revolution : Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler by Joe Foster

Senior Individual Exhibit

• 3rd - Women's Christian Temperance Union by Jordan Condict
• 2nd - The Germ Theory: Revolution in Medicine by McKenzie Hillis
• 1st - Pablo Picasso: A Revolution in Art by Loni Starks

Senior Group Exhibit

• 3rd - John Brown's Revolt against Slavery by Kirsten Beck & Kaitlyn Jones
• 2nd - Mexican Revolution by Dustin Robbins and Brandon Ervin

Junior Division Individual Exhibit

• 3rd - Henry Ford: The Model T by Lane Brown
• 2nd - The Four Lads Who Shook the World by Drew Hickson
• 1st - Tragedy of Reform: The Shirtwaist Factory Fire by Jessica Talley
  

Junior Division Group Exhibit

• 3rd - Pony Express by Allena Robbins and Ashley Wren
• 2nd - The Battle of Gettysburg by Brandon Partenberry and Joshua Thornton
• 1st - Dorthea Dix by Jordan Head, Ski Pinkley, and Breanna Williamson

Junior Individual Web Design

• Hawks and Doves: America's Reaction to the Vietnam War by Dawsey Horton

Photos Above: Jessica Talley and her first place project in Junior Division Individual Exhibit.