History Students Place at NHD Regionals

by Dawn Teer

Stuttgart Jr. High Students recently competed in National History Day Region Four Competition,  The students listed below placed in the top three for their specific project types in the Southeastern region of Arkansas and have qualified to compete at the state contest at UCA on Saturday, April 18.
Their teacher William Washburn received the Fountain Landreth Award for Arkansas History Day, an annual award recognizing an outstanding teacher in Arkansas for their exceptional work in guiding students through their National History Day Project. (SJHS is still the only school in the state that does not gatekeep participation, and that requires every student to complete a project in some capacity, whether they enter it into the contest or not.) 
This is Washburn's ninth year teaching, his fourth at SJHS, and his seventh year teaching 8th-grade. He has only taught social studies, and has taught every grade 7-12 at some point or another, and almost every social studies course offered in the state of Arkansas.  He  has only taught US and AR History since he began at SJHS. 
The results were as follows:
Group Performance:
1) Glow in the Dark- Madeline Jaramillo, Jurnee Hickman, Hudson Daniels, Catherine Magouryk, Allison Guzman
Individual Documentary:
1) The Little Rock Nine- Tinlee Wilson
2) The Mass Shootings by the Einsatzgruppen- Beckett Brewer
Group Documentary:
1) Misery and Molasses- Kylee Teer, Keira Gaither, Ella Sherman
2) Lewis Hine (The Man Who Kick-started the End of Child Labor)- Bennett Barnes, Tenley Daniel, Merritt 
    Scherm, Hollyn Watkins
3) W.H. Fuller's Experimental Rice Crop- Cash Turner, Cason Rodgers
Group Exhibit:
1) From Insult to Action- Katy Sherman, Laila Jones
2) This Land is Our Land- Kevin De La Cruz, Sloan Helms, Mason Jacobs, Rhett Brown,     
     Madsen Byers
3) The 381 Day Walk- Thea Hillman, Kelcie Hodges, Brooklyn Addison
Individual Exhibit
2) Watch Your Neck!- Landon Burfield
3) The Raid of Doolittle- John Luke Ellis
Congratulations to all the students and to Washburn, their teacher, who has obviously instilled, at least in this instance, a love for history and learning about it.