2026 Finals & Awards

Junior Individual Performance Finalists

  • Newsboy Strike of 1899 (Entry# 13009)
  • Revolution, Reaction, and Reform (Entry# 13004)
  • Understanding the French Revolution (Entry# 13013)
  • The Book That Tore America Apart (Entry# 13005)

Junior Group Performance Finalists

  • The History of Sugar Land, Texas (Entry# 14006)
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Entry# 14008)
  • The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement (Entry# 14017)
  • Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History (Entry# 14013)
  • One Voice, A Million Changes (Entry# 14010)
  • The Haitian Revolution (Entry# 14022)

Senior Individual Performance Finalists

  • The Equality Exclusive (Entry# 23012)
  • Lights, Camera, a Torpedo Has Been Intercepted! (Entry# 23006)
  • Capturing America: How Ansel Adams Revolutionized Photography (Entry# 23004)
  • Rails of Resistance (Entry# 23015)

Senior Group Performance Finalists

  • Mind of a Nation (Entry# 24005)
  • Revolution and Reaction on the Border (Entry# 24013)
  • The Space Race (Entry# 24017)
  • From Rumor to Revolution (Entry# 24007)

Junior Individual Documentary Finalists

  • The Chicago Outfit (Entry# 11016)
  • From Being a Moneyless High School Graduate (Entry# 11014)
  • Crystal City Internment Camp (Entry# 11026)
  • Airport Security (Entry# 11023)
  • Rebel Pride Never Dies… Until it did (Entry# 11032)
  • The New Odyssey: How AI is Reshaping Classrooms (Entry# 11025)
  • Picture Justice – How Photography Revolutionized Evidence (Entry# 11001)
  • The Development of the Montessori Method (Entry# 11008)

Junior Group Documentary Finalists

  • 1:30 PM – The Lead Reaction (Entry# 12032)
  • 1:45 PM – The Pink Mirror (Entry# 12015)
  • 2:00 PM – American Revolution (Entry# 12023)
  • 2:15 PM – A Rebellion, Not a Riot (Entry# 12012)
  • 2:30 PM – Brought to You by the Letter R! (Entry# 12036)
  • 2:45 PM – Sputnik 1 (Entry# 12008)
  • 3:00 PM – The Shadows of Surveillance (Entry# 12003)
  • 3:15 PM – The Battle of Adwa and the Rise of Modern Ethiopia (Entry# 12019)

Senior Individual Documentary Finalists

  • 1:30 PM – Woodstock (Entry# 21005)
  • 1:45 PM – Dirty Industry (Entry# 21022)
  • 2:00 PM – Changing the Classical (Entry# 21007)
  • 2:15 PM – Tienanmen Square (Entry# 21011)
  • 2:30 PM – Our Children Live As Long As We Walk (Entry# 21018)
  • 2:45 PM – We All Bleed Red (Entry# 21026)

Senior Group Documentary Finalists

  • 1:30 PM – From Bare Feet to White Coats (Entry# 22007)
  • 1:45 PM – America’s Cultural Flame (Entry# 22017)
  • 2:00 PM – Poisoned for Profit (Entry# 22021)
  • 2:15 PM – The Gulabi Gang (Entry# 22013)
  • 2:30 PM – How the Treaty of Fez Transformed French Reform (Entry# 22029)
  • 2:45 PM – Breaking the Sky Barrier (Entry# 22014)
  • 3:00 PM – Changing the Channel (Entry# 22003)
  • 3:15 PM – The Forgotten Story (Entry# 22023)

Junior Paper Finalists

  • The The Second Founding and the Reconstruction of American Citizenship: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in The Fourteenth Amendment, Southern Resistance, and Its Enduring Civil Rights Legacy (Entry# 10005)
  • How British Law Inspired American Colonists to Revolt Against British Rule (Entry# 10011)
  • The Spartacist Uprising: 1919 (Entry# 10020)
  • The Chinese Cultural Revolution: 1966-1976 (Entry# 10022)
  • “The Party of Exclusion”: The Wisconsin Revolution that Permanently Changed American Politics (Entry# 10024)
  • Silent Spring’s Not So Silent Impact: Revolution in Public Perspective, Sparking Public Debate, and Causing Legislative Reform (Entry# 10030)

Senior Paper Finalists

  • The Harlem Renaissance: How Cultural Expression Became a Revolution (Entry# 20002)
  • The Spark in Champaran: Revolution Through Satyagraha, Reaction of Empire, and Reform That Reshaped India (Entry# 20007)
  • The Battle for Nicaragua: The Fall of the Somoza Regime (Entry# 20010)
  • There is no greater inequality (Entry# 20018)
  • Dr. Charles R. Drew and the Bloody Revolution: Fighting Medical Racism while Transforming Plasma Storage Applications (Entry# 20019)
  • The Declaration of Independence: An Ongoing Revolution, Provoking Reaction, and Inspiring Reform (Entry# 20026)

Junior Individual Website Finalists

  • The King’s Revolutions: Rethinking the Historical Significance of Elvis Presley in 1950s America (Entry# 17015)
  • The “Spirit” Rebellion: How the Whiskey Tax Challenged the Stability of the Young American Republic (Entry# 17009)
  • A Bloody Sunday in Alabama (Entry# 17017)
  • Voice of the People: The Partition of 1947 and the Birth of a Nation (Entry# 17028)
  • The Rise of Oil Companies in Houston and Labor Reactions (Entry# 17025)
  • China’s One-Child Policy: A Radical Policy and Its Unintended Consequences (Entry# 17010)

Junior Group Website Finalists

  • The Print Revolution [From Ink to Impact: How Printing Transformed the World] (Entry# 18022)
  • Emma Tenayuca: Head of the Revolution (Entry# 18024)
  • Sounding Orders, How the Bugle Revolutionized Military Communication (Entry# 18001)
  • Asia for Asians: Reforming and Revolutionizing Asia in Reaction to the West (Entry# 18015)
  • Sputnik: A Beep Heard Around the World (Entry# 18010)
  • Nuclear Reaction: A Tale of the Hydrogen Bomb (Entry# 18018)

Senior Individual Website Finalists

  • By Blood Alone: How the Italian Fascist Party Revolutionized Italy (Entry# 27026)
  • Cultivating the Curriculum: The Smith-Hughes Act and the Revolution in Vocational Training for Rural Youth (Entry# 27012)
  • The Confessing Church: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform (Entry# 27022)
  • Title IX: Revolution, Reaction, Reform, Equality in Progress (Entry# 27003)
  • From Exclusion to Equality: The ADA as a Landmark Reform (Entry# 27008)
  • When Truth Hit the Headlines: How the Pentagon Papers Sparked Reaction and Demanded Reform (Entry# 27017)

Senior Group Website Finalists

  • A Voice in the Pecan Dust: Emma Tenayuca’s Grassroots Revolution, the Red-Baiting Reaction, and the Reform of Mexican-American Labor (Entry# 28023)
  • Space Race: American Education After Sputnik (Entry# 28015)
  • Deciding Destiny: How the God Committee Revolutionized Bioethics and Reformed Federal Healthcare Policy (Entry# 28001)
  • From Screens to Society: The Revolution, Reaction, and Reform of PBS Children’s Programs (Entry# 28019)
  • The October Revolution (Entry# 28009B)
  • Waves of Change: How 2nd wave feminism revolutionized gender roles and reformed American society (Entry# 28011)

Elementary Individual Poster Finalists

  • Not Throwin’ Away Our Shot: Hamilton and the American Revolution (Entry# 55006)
  • Culper Spy Ring (Entry# 55016)
  • More than a Messman: How Doris Miller’s Reaction Led to Racial Reform (Entry# 55015)
  • The Lost Flag (Entry# 55018)
  • Horace Mann (Entry# 55002)
  • From Labor to Learning (Entry# 55024)

Elementary Group Poster Finalists

  • The A.M.B.E.R Alert System: A Revolution, Reaction and Reform in 1996 (Entry# 56001)
  • India’s Independence from British Rule (Entry# 56016)
  • The Bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941: A Revolution, Reaction and Reform for the U.S. (Entry# 56018)
  • A Race Beyond Earth: Big Ideas, Big Changes (Entry# 56009)

Junior Individual Exhibit Finalists

  • Black Wallstreet (Entry# 15006)
  • The Edenton Tea Party (Entry# 15005)
  • Revolution, Reaction, Reform: The Vietnam Draft Protests and America’s Debate Over Duty (Entry# 15033)
  • Spindletop: The Boom That Changed The World (Entry# 15016)
  • From Pixels to Language: Shigetaka Kurita’s Emoji Revolution: 1999 (Entry# 15035)
  • The Fredonian Rebellion: Prelude to the Texas Revolution (Entry# 15028)
  • Beef Production Revolution: Open Range to Feedlots (Entry# 15014)
  • From Convicts to Cowboys: The Texas Prison Rodeo (Entry# 15022)

Junior Group Exhibit Finalists

  • The Revolution, Reaction, and Reform of the Texas Dust Bowl (Entry# 16036)
  • The Chicano – El Movimiento – The Walkout of 1968 (Entry# 16017)
  • A Nuclear Reaction: Godzilla Through the Eyes of Japan (Entry# 16012)
  • On The Line of Scrimmage: Revolution, Reaction and Reform Under The Helmet (Entry# 16026)
  • The Secrets of Vietnam (Entry# 16010)
  • The Revolutionary Story of the Aberration Corrected Transmission Electron Microscope (Entry# 16034)
  • Unimaginable, Unstoppable, Unforgettable: Redefining Power at Sea (Entry# 16030)
  • Protecting Our Environment: The Impact of the Endangered Species Act (Entry# 16006)

Senior Individual Exhibit Finalists

  • Revolution, Reaction, Reform- The 26th Amendment: “Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote” (Entry# 25008)
  • Hello Girls Answering the Call: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in Service (Entry# 25016)
  • The Philippines is Indomitable: U.S. and Imperial Japan (Entry# 25015)
  • Buried Poisons and Broken Promises: A Grassroot Revolution in Environmental Justice (Entry# 25009)
  • A Place to Call Home: The Battle for the I-Hotel and the Rise of Asian American Activism (Entry# 25024)
  • People Power Revolution: How the EDSA Revolution of 1986 Redefined Democracy in the Philippines (Entry# 25021)

Senior Group Exhibit Finalists

  • Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Scientific Revolution and Public Outcry that Fueled Environmental Reform (Entry# 26027)
  • Revolution, Reaction, Reform; Riot: How the 1788 New York Doctors’ Riots Shaped a Young Nation (Entry# 26002)
  • Revolutionizing the American Classroom: The Bilingual Education Act and Educational Reform (Entry# 26014)
  • Hollywood History: Reflecting Revolutions on Western Society (Entry# 26021)
  • Upton Sinclair and The Meatpacking Reform: How Muckraking Journalism Exposed Industrial Abuse and Revolutionized Food Safety (Entry# 26031)
  • Sanitation and Sovereignty: Reaction, Revolution, and Reform in the 1917 El Paso Bath Riots (Entry# 26017)
  • The Meiji restoration: reforming Japan through revolution (Entry# 26023)
  • The Pullman Strike (Entry# 26008)