Winner-John Cameron Sparks:
Contemporary Christian Worship Music: A Theological Critique
Finalist Nicholas Chang:
Crisis and Catastrophe in the Welfare System
Finalist John Patrick Hamner:
Christianity and the Tipping Point: An Application of Malcolm Gladwell
Daniel Huh:
North Korea and Dysfunctional Foreign Policy
Molly Kim:
Blessed are the Poor: Christianity and Poverty
Owen McCrory:
Demonstrating the Existence of God: An Analysis & Defense of Aquinas' Fourth Way
Peter Shin:
A Comparative Analysis of Classical, Modern, and Christian Heroism
Kathryn Wheeler:
The Impossibility of Human Perfection and the Virtues of Disability
Cambridge Students Defend Theses During the 2008 Senior Tutorials
The preparation and presentation of a thesis by each senior student is the capstone of the curriculum at The Cambridge School of Dallas. Its purpose is to provide students with an opportunity to study and research a topic in depth, to write a rigorous academic paper on that topic, and to present and defend the thesis of that paper publicly before an academic committee. Each senior works under the direction of a Cambridge professor who has a particular interest or expertise in the general subject matter.
On March 27, 2008, three finalists were chosen from the outstanding works of all students in the senior class. These three finalists met in a finals competition on April 15, 2008. John Cameron Sparks was awarded the Trivium Award with his tutorial piece entitled "Contemporary Christian Worship Music: A Theological Critique."