Russel, Greenburg Advance To State History Day Competition

3-19-10

Cooperstown Central School’s Jacob Russel, 7th grade, and Emily Greenburg, 8th grade, took top honors in regional History Day competition and will advance to the state competition on April 30 at the New York State Historical Association.
Russell will advance for his individual performance titled, “Trench Warfare,” and Greenburg will advance with her indiviudal website titled, “The Montessori Method: A New Light on Teaching.”

Here are local winners:

SEVENTH GRADE:

Individual Exhibit
1. “Johann Gutenberg and His Printing Press” Sophie Miller
2. “Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Dark of Night: The United States Postal Service” Quentin Powers
3. “Title IX: Equality for Women” Christina Noto
4. “Titanic: Innovation of the Sea” Jimmy Anania

Group Exhibit
1. “Light as Air, Stronger Than Whiskey, Cheap as Dirt” Nathaniel Wilcox and Schuyler Gann 
2.“The Telephone: The Voice of Communication” Elizabeth Russo and Eden Griger 

Individual Performance
 “Trench Warfare” Jacob Russell
Group Performance
“Louis Braille”   Renee Freidman, Max Ofer, Sarah Siegel 
 
EIGHTH GRADE:

Individual Exhibits
1.“Sextant: Navigation by the Stars”  Caitlin Briggs
2.“The Evolution of the Camera” Henry Stewart
3.“The Innovation of Doppler Radar: Tracking Precipitation”  Jason Cadwalader

Group Exhibit
1. “The Birth of All Communication” Christina Grigoli, Jaime Zoltick, Anneliese Carrascoso
2. “X-Ray: America’s Way to Diagnose Bone Fractures” Brianna Palmatier, Sarah Jane Morosko, Angela Pacherille

Individual Documentary
Jacob Lansing  “History of Recorded Music”

Individual Web Site:
1.“The Montessori Method: A New Light on Teaching” Emily Greenburg
2. “Woman’s Suffrage: The Fight for Equal Rights” Maddy Sandler
Group Web Site
1. “Cameras: Capturing History and Changing It” Catherine Borgstrom and Melissa Townsend 
2. “Apple: The World’s First Personal Computer” Elle Kenyon and Aaron Idelson 

Papers
1.“The Panama Canal: An Engineering Innovation that Connected the World”  Peter Resnick
2.“Television Innovation: Impact and Change on American Society in the 20th Century”  Joe Harmon
3.“Latinos in Major League Baseball” Park Summers

NINTH GRADE:
Individual Exhibits
1.“Sew What: Innovation of the Sewing Machine”  Steffaney Wilcox
2.“Wilbur & Orville Wright: The First Flight”  Alexis Devenpeck

Group Exhibits
1. “The Owens Automatic-Bottling Machine: Bottled Up” Jacob Miller and Liam Heneghan  
2. “A Flash in Time: Photography in the Great Depression” Sumer Murdock, Janelle Harter, and Sara Breiten

Documentary
1.Brightening up the Night”: Neon Lights”  Abby Brown and Veronica Tang 
2.“Innovation of Apple Computers”  Jake Burnham and Ethan Bliss
Paper
“Evolution of a Stronghold: The Medieval Castle”  Jack Siegel
 

TEACHER                   RECOGNITION AWARDS

7th Grade: McKenna Hage,  Alicia McArdle, Grace Heneghan
8th Grade: Joey Katz, Kyle Tallman, Maggie Hall
9th Grade: Tom Franck, Katie Monser, Katie Booan