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Show MPJH students place high at History Fair Mueller Park students swept the field for awards at the regional history fair held at Weber State University on March 17. After five months of concentrated con-centrated efforts in researching, interviewing, organizing and creating scripts and project boards, the students received recognition for their hard work. Kristina Parker, a first place winner in the historical paper category, entitled en-titled her composition "American Indian Influences Upon the Europeans." Natalie Olson won a first place ribbon for her performance on Jesse Benton Ben-ton Fremont. Her presentation was called "Jesse's John Fremont, A Peek into the Past, A Vision of the Future. ' ' Third place winners in the media event were Doug Smith and Adrian Johnson. Their entry was concerned with the development of vaccines and how they changed the course of history. Second place winners in the media area were Michelle Hatch, J.D. Lyon, Brittany Nelson, David Dibble and Mikell Mackay. Their video presentation presen-tation was called, "Whoever Heard of Tracey Hall?" A slide presentation on ' Cartography Mapping a Changing World" was the first place winner developed by Mark Jeppsen and Jeremy Black. In the group projects, two groups of students shared second place. Erin Smith, Miriam Harmer, Preston Jensen, Monica Pearson and Tyler Anderson's Ander-son's entry was entitled "Exploring the Moon." and Megan Morris, Benji Becker, Kristina Kanell and Taylor Nadauld shared honors with their entry, "The History of Television." Final recognition was given to Dan Higgs and Matt Williams for their first place entry "Lasers: A Solution in Search of a Problem." All first and second place winners will compete on April 7 at the state history fair at Brigham Young University. In 1991, students from Mueller Park won first place in the media division at state and went on to win second se-cond place in the nation with a slide presentation on Topaz. |