Resolution Honoring the Winners of the 2023 National History Day Contest

R E S O L U T I O N

WHEREAS the State Board of Education considers high academic standards as the foundation of public education in Texas; and

WHEREAS the National History Day program fosters academic achievement and intellectual growth, requires student participants to conduct extensive primary and secondary source research on a topic of historical significance, and promotes pride in each student participant’s heritage and in our nation’s history and place in the world; and

WHEREAS the annual National History Day contest with the theme of Frontiers in History: People, Ideas, and Events was held in College Park, Maryland, on June 10-15, 2023; and

WHEREAS Henry Jones of Lively Middle School in Austin, Texas, won First Place in the Junior Division Historical Paper category with his paper titled A "Social Frontier": Boy Scouts, Progressive Education, and the Turner Thesis and

WHEREAS Grant Gillum of Dripping Springs High School in Dripping Springs, Texas, won Second Place in the Senior Division Individual Website category with his website titled Power for the People: How LBJ Tamed the Frontiers of Texas Hill Country Electrification; and

WHEREAS Carter Holton of New Caney High School in New Caney, Texas, won Second Place in the Senior Division Individual Exhibit category with his exhibit titled Window to the Universe: How the Hubble Space Telescope Revolutionized the Study of Astronomy; and

WHEREAS Emma Clark-Martinez, Finley Ritter, and Katrina Telep of ATLAS Academy in Waco, Texas, won Third Place in the Junior Division Group Performance category with their performance titled Is There a Doctor in the House: The Tale of Dr. Sara Josephine Baker and Typhoid Mary; and

WHEREAS Felicity Fok and Zeviel Pineda of Veterans Memorial Early College High School in Brownsville, Texas, won Third Place in the Senior Division Group Exhibit category with their exhibit titled The Hidden Bombe of WWII: Outwitting the Enigma Code; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the State Board of Education does hereby congratulate these 2023 National History Day winners from the Austin Independent School District, Dripping Springs Independent School District, New Caney Independent School District, Waco Independent School District, and Brownsville Independent School District; and be it further

RESOLVED, That this resolution be presented to the aforementioned students for their winning projects at the 2023 National History Day contest and that a copy be included in the permanent records of the State Board of Education.

WITNESS our signatures this seventeenth day of November, two thousand and twenty-three, in Austin, Texas.

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Keven Ellis, Chair

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Pat Hardy, Secretary