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If it’s February, it’s time for another massive McCallie awards haul in the National History Day (NHD) Tennessee Southeast regional competition. Students compete in one of nine possible categories with historical research projects. There is a regional, then state, and a national level of competition. Each year there is a theme, and this year’s theme is "Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in History." The first and second place finishers advance to the state competition in Nashville on April 18.
As McCallie history chair Duke Richey said of the competitors, “These young men spend months working on these projects.”
Once again, the quality and creativity of that work showed in the awards, with McCallie not only sweeping 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the paper category as it has done for the last 14 years, but also sending 14 students on to the state competition in Nashville on April 18.
Richey also pointed out in a weekend email, “This was an exciting year at NHD regionals because some students from Randy Odle’s AP World History course also competed, and for the first time in many years, some middle school students Randy has been working with also competed. The middle school boys had great success and we look forward to even more 6th-8th grade participation in the future.”
The full list of award winners is below:
Junior (Middle School) Individual Documentary, 1st place: Easton Herrmann, “Hobart’s Funnies”
Junior (MS) Individual Website, 1st place: Cole Varnell, “Conscience Over Combat”
Senior Paper, 1st place: Max Mealor, "Destiny of This Republic: The Path From Reform to Revolution at Blair Mountain”
Senior Paper, 2nd place: Finbar Kelly, "Curt Flood and the Creation of MLB Free Agency”
Senior Paper, 3rd place: Will Scotchie, "Game Changers: How Video Games Sparked a Storytelling Revolution”
Senior Individual Exhibit, 1st place: Sawyer Hazlewood, "The Somers Mutiny: How a Failed Uprising Changed the U.S. Navy”
Senior Individual Exhibit, 2nd place: Thompson Schmidt, "The Murder of Chief David Hennessey and the Mass Lynching of Italians in 1891 New Orleans”
Senior Exhibit, 3rd place: Alejandro Mendoza, "Harvey Wiley & The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906”
Senior Individual Website, 1st place: Isaac George, "An Unjust System: Amy Beach's Revolution to Expand Women's Place in American Music”
Senior Individual Website, 2nd place: Maxim Lee, "Charlie Brown and Cold War Suburbia: Envisioning a More Equal World”
Senior Individual Website, 3rd place: Jackson Sung (10th grade) "The Corn Empire”
Senior Group Website, 1st place: Nishant Sanjay and Grant Simmons, "Bars for Brutality”
Senior Group Website, 2nd place: Sebastian Arsala and Graham Thompson, "From Long Shot to Host: How the United States Secured the Bid for the 1994 World Cup”
Senior Individual Documentary, 1st place: Henry Bearden (10th grade), "The Forward Pass: How Football Was Revolutionized”
Senior Individual Documentary, 2nd place: Camp Lehn, "The Founding of Road America”
Senior Individual Documentary, 3rd place: Luke Powe, "Improvisation and Innovation: How Jam Bands Transformed Live Music and Fan Culture”
Senior Group Documentary, 3rd place: Vidur Rajagopalan and Thomas Almond, "Battle on the Course and the Courts”
- National History Day