ALBANY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Lauren Koenig, a student from Solomon Schechter High School in Glen Cove as the recipient of the 2006 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Grades 9-12.
ALBANY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Lauren Koenig, a student from Solomon Schechter High School in Glen Cove as the recipient of the 2006 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Grades 9-12.
The award is named for Regent Emerita Laura Chodos and her husband Dr. Robert Chodos, who created an endowment for the award as a way to encourage the educational uses of historical records.
A framed certificate and a cash gift will be presented to Ms. Koenig at a luncheon ceremony at the State Education Department in Albany on October 23, 2006. Koenig’s teacher, Dr. Linda Rabino, will also be recognized at the luncheon.
Ms. Koenig’s award-winning entry is a documentary, "I Took the Canal" Theodore Roosevelt Takes a Stand For American Imperialism. Using a variety of primary sources from repositories such as Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York State Library, Library of Congress, and Smithsonian Institution, as well as many secondary sources, Lauren Koenig created an insightful documentary.
Members of the review panel called the entry "an excellent project which used historical records, interviews, contemporary books, and music effectively to present the momentous decisions of a famous New Yorker."
This award is presented annually to a student or group of students in New York State who have made outstanding use of historical records in their research. It recognizes the students' work for demonstrating excellence based on specific criteria: using a variety of historical records, drawing on information from those records, and interpreting and integrating that information with creativity and imagination.
The annual Archives Awards program recognizes outstanding efforts in archives and records management work in New York State by a broad range of individuals and organizations. A complete list of this year's award recipients follows:
William Hoyt Advocacy Award
Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York
Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago
Debra E. Bernhardt Award for Excellence in Documenting New York's
History
The Rochester Museum and Science Center and the Latino Alliance
Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository
Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York
William H. Kelly Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival
Program Development
Saratoga County
Cheryl Steinbach Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management
Town of Cheektowaga
Excellence in State Agency Records Management
New York State Emergency Management Office
Bruce W. Dearstyne Educator Award for Excellence in the Educational
Use of Local Government Records
Susan Stessin-Cohn, Ulster County
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 4-5 and The Regents Award of Distinction for Student
Research
The Walden History Group, Walden Elementary School, Walden. Educator: Nancy
Phelps
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 6-8
Edward Bugniazet and Nicholas LaSorsa, Windward School, White Plains. Educators:
Marjorie R. Gleit and John Manganiello
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 9-12
Lauren Koenig, tenth grader at Solomon Schechter High School, Glen Cove. Educator:
Dr. Linda Rubino