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Hooray! for Drake and Terry

blue-ribbon-180x300Remember the James Meredith documentary by two students from Madison Middle School that we blogged about last week? Well, it went over like gangbusters at the National History Day competition this past week, winning everything in sight! Here’s an email we received from Drake and Terry’s teacher Tom Watts at Madison Middle School:

Andy and Joe, Drake Terry and Jerry Lee Ainsworth won the over all “Best in Show” (for all five categories) at the State level National History Day at the University of Southern Mississippi. Also, they won the Group Documentary at Senior Division; received a special award for the best Oral History Project; and won the History Quiz Bowl for the second year in a row, beating a team from Crystal Springs, 19 – 3. I know you are as proud of them as We are. But they could not have done it without ya’lls tremendous help!!! We will be going in to the University of Maryland for the National History Day to represent Mississippi. No Mississippi project has won in any of the catagories in the 28 year history of National History Day. We are hoping to be the first. Again, God Bless ya’ll and thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!! Tom Watts, Madison Middle School, Madison, MS
If you missed the now award winning documentary by Drake and Terry when we posted it last week, here it is again: