On behalf of The Hershey Story and our distinguished panel of judges, we salute all students who participated in the 2011 History Contest. A 46-member panel of judges, consisting of historians, educators and community leaders, reviewed the more than 300 entries and selected the following winning entries. Click on the titles below to view full essays in pdf format.

• Junior Level — Fiction
• Dreaming of Change 1st Place – Hope Hensgen, Mountville Elementary School
• Yellow Fever 2nd Place – Lily Barmucci, Gettysburg Area Middle School

• Junior Level — Non-Fiction
• Dick Winters and the Men of Easy Company 1st Place – Jordan Brown, South Lebanon Elementary School
• Making a Difference 2nd Place – Annalise Le Zhu Koup, Linglestown, Elementary School, Harrisburg

• Junior Level — Poetry
• Legacy 1st Place – Louie Horning, Eagle View Middle School, Mechanicsburg
• My Life Lost from a German Concentration Camp 2nd Place – Elizabeth McCombs, J.E. Fritz Elementary School, Leola

• Junior Level - Science & Health Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Award
• The Oldest Living Reptile 1st Place – Matthew Knauer, St. Joseph's School, Dallastown
• Man's Slave to World's Greatest Scientist 2nd Place – Rebecca Bender, Home School, Fredericksburg

• Senior Level - Fiction
• The Golden Gift 1st Place – Laura Downer, Eagle View Middle School, Mechanicsburg
• Pompeii 2nd Place – Nancy Wang, Hershey Middle School

• Senior Level - Non-Fiction
• My Name Is Albert: The Story of Jennie Hodgers 1st Place – Kelvey Croutch, Home School, Newville
• Annie Oakley 2nd Place – Arla Jean Blodgett, Our Mother of Perpetual Help School, Ephrata

• Senior Level - Poetry
• Remembering the Plague 1st Place – Natalie Kreitzer, Eagle View Middle School, Mechanicsburg
• The Leaves of Vincent Van Gogh 2nd Place – Jessica Getz, Eagle View Middle School, Mechanicsburg

• Senior Level - Science & HealthPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Award
• History of Organ Transplants 1st Place – Vivian Shiffler, Central Dauphin Middle School, Harrisburg
• Medieval Crisis: The Black Death 2nd Place – Victoria Oceanna Jones, Central Dauphin Middle School, Harrisburg