New Mexico Connections Academy student Karma Bromwell with her teacher Desiree Hirdman. Courtesy/JROMC
Lordsburg High School student, Izabella Guerrero (co-recipient Richard Silvas, not shown), with National History Day exhibit poster. Courtesy/JROMC
JROMC News:
The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC) has announced the winners of its 2024 National History Day awards.
Izabella Guerrero and Richard Silvas, students at Lordsburg High School, won the JROMC Person or People in Science Award for “Frances Lee Glessner: A Woman Who Changed Forensics with Her Murder Dollhouses.”
Karma Bromwell, a student at New Mexico Connections Academy, won the JROMC Excellence in Research Award for “Beyond the Quill: Title IX and the Inked Parchment of Equal Opportunity” for research that is thorough and well-documented.
National History Day annually attracts more than half a million students in grades 6 through 12 at local, county, state and national levels. Working individually or in small teams, students study historical topics for several months before submitting their entries, which may include a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, or website. In April more than 200 middle and high school students from across New Mexico participated in the 2024 state contest in Albuquerque.
Northeastern Regional Science & Engineering Fair JROMC Award Winners, presented at the Fair in Las Vegas, N.M.: Ethan Mendez, Tate Plohr, Fiona Smith, Helena Welch and Kalliope Welch, Los Alamos; Henry Tischler, Santa Fe; and Zoe Tafoya and Mario Vargas, Taos.
Helena Welch and Tate Plohr advanced to compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles this month. The JROMC is also one of the contributors to the New Mexico Highlands University travel fund for students attending the international fair.
The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and one of the most influential scientists of the 20th Century.
The JROMC sponsors the Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture. This year the free lecture will be “Ancient DNA and the Peopling of the Americas” by Professor Jennifer Raff, 7 p.m. Monday, June 24 at the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos. For more information go to JROMC.org.