occasions online 2017
FIRST YEAR
"A Case for Standardized Testing"
Short Form, 1st Place (only winner)
"Investigating Testimony"
Leanna Valles
Long form, 1st Place
"How Fear Causes Conflict"
Fiona L. Bartell
Long Form, 2nd Place (tie)
"Investigating the Phenomenon: White Suburban Teenagers' Love of Rap Music"
Josie Russell
Long Form, 2nd Place (tie)
DIVERSITY
"Denial of Equal Access: Why the FDA Should Approve Cochlear Implants for Unilateral Hearing Loss"
Nathaniel Curtis
1st Place
"Best Friends Found in Unlikely Places"
Emma Levy
2nd Place
"The Not-So-Invisible Glass Ceiling"
Kaycee Maas
3rd Place
CREATIVE NONFICTION
"All Atheists Go to Hell"
Ellie Marcotte
1st Place
"Awake"
Kirk Wailblinger
2nd Place
"The Most Fickle Man in Fenway"
Josie Russell
3rd Place
UPPER DIVISION
GENERAL
"The Cities We’ve Built": Adamic Women in Meek’s Cutoff
Katie Armstrong
1st Place
"Obliged to Have a Test-Tube Baby?: Why Genetically At-Risk Parents Have a Moral Duty to Screen Embryos for Disease"
Antonia Lin
2nd Place
"Identity, Existentialism, and Self-Reflection in Two Narratives
Kiana Trippler
3rd Place
3040
"Fracking and Investing: Understanding and Investing in Hydraulic Fracturing for Individual Investors"
Jamie Emerson
1st place
"AT&T Transparency: Creating a Better Tomorrow"
Trace Grain and RobertSeber
2nd place (team)
"The Feasibility of Investment in Seabin"
Philippe Langlois
3rd Place
"Breakthroughs in Biochar"
Evan Valencia
1st Place
MULTIMODAL
No Title (two posters)
Courtney Johnson
1st Place
"My Inspiration"
Lindsey Catherine Nichols
2nd Place