Woodlawn students have competed in the National History Day competition every year since 2005, and a total of 19 Woodlawn student entries have qualified for the national finals in College Park, Maryland over that time period.  See Woodlawn's results from recent NHD competitions: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007.

State Competition - Raleigh, NC, April 30, 2011

The following Woodlawn students will be advancing to the National Finals of NHD in College Park, Maryland on June 12-16.

Senior Paper

2nd - Sydney Bowman  The Treaty That No Panamanian Signed: The Consequences of Roosevelt's Reign of the Canal

Junior Paper

2nd - Matthew Shaw  The Shah of Iran

Junior Individual Website

1st - Andrew Nielsen  SALT I: The Nuclear Negotiation

2nd - Sam Packard  Clemenceau: Blameless or Belligerent?

Junior Individual Documentary

1st - Olivia Berkey  The Paris Peace Accords: The Facade of Diplomacy

(Celeste Campbell advanced due to scheduling conflicts for top 2 winners) 

Junior Individual Performance

2nd - Elia Ramirez  It Was My Cuban Paradise: Was The Revolution for Castro or Cuba?

Special Recognition Awards

Senior Individual Exhibit

Outstanding Exhibit Award ($100 prize) - Dana Neidinger The Galileo Affair

Junior Individual Documentary

Outstanding Use of Primary Sources ($100 prize) - Celeste Campbell  God or Gorilla?  The Scopes Monkey Trial

Junior Individual Exhibit 

Outstanding Project in Medical History ($100 prize) - Clare MacDonald  Assisted Suicide: The Dying Debate

District Competition - UNC-Charlotte, March 19, 2011

The following Woodlawn students advanced to the North Carolina State National History Day Competition on April 30 in Raleigh.

Senior Papers
1st- Sydney Bowman  The Treaty That No Panamanian Signed: The Consequences of Roosevelt's Reign of the Canal
2nd- Mary Rood Cunningham  The Atomic Bomb: Was It Necessary?
3rd- William Neal  Coal Ash: The Overlooked Flaw

Senior Individual Exhibits
1st- Dana Neidinger  The Galileo Affair
2nd- Morgan Adams  The Food System: You Are What You Eat
3rd- Thomas Tyson  Roe v. Wade: The Unresolved Debate of Fetus' Rights

Senior Individual Websites

2nd- Michael Kaczmarczyk  Never Again, Happened Again: From Munich to Yalta

3rd- Maisie Wills  Taking a Stab at Workers' Rights: The Jungle

Senior Group Websites
2nd- Zachary Felts and David Hager  Lincoln's Path to Success: The Lincoln Douglas Debates
3rd- John O'Connell and Bradford Weir  Brown v. Board of Education

Senior Documentaries
1st- JP Shaw The Process of Diplomacy: Cuban Missile Crisis

1st- Lachlan Johnson Prohibition:  Can Morality be Legislated?  (Central Piedmont Competition) 

Junior Papers
1st- Davis Combs  The 1980 Olympic Games: Failed Diplomacy
2nd- Matthew Shaw  The Shah of Iran
3rd- Michael Kleinhandler Britain's Wrongful Rule of India

Junior Individual Websites
1st- A.J. Ciuffo  The Atomic Bomb Decision: Useful or Useless?
2nd- Sam Packard  Clemenceau: Blameless or Belligerent?
3rd- Andrew Nielsen  SALT I: The Nuclear Negotiation

Junior Individual Documentaries
1st- Olivia Berkey  The Paris Peace Accords: The Facade of Diplomacy
2nd- Celeste Campbell  God or Gorilla: The Scopes Monkey Trial

Junior Individual Exhibits
1st- Clare MacDonald  Assisted Suicide: The Dying Debate
2nd- Rebecca Goheen  The Creation of Lake Norman: A Debate of Sacrifice
3rd-  Ciara Conway  45 Seconds in Hiroshima: The Debate That Changed America
5th- Clare Robinson  Doctors Without Borders: Diplomacy Through Health Care

Junior Individual Performances

1st- Elia Ramirez It Was My Cuban Paradise: Was The Revolution for Castro or Cuba?

2nd- Abigail Haupt  Keeping Our Nation's Wilderness Wild: The Diplomacy of Lady Bird Johnson