Students Proceed to Regional History Day

February 17, 2021

National History Day is an annual competition in which students complete a research project connected to a theme. The 2021 theme is "Communication in History: The Key to Understanding." Students had the chance to choose the format their final project would take, such as an exhibit, a website, an essay, or a documentary. 

All projects were judged, and students were chosen to advance to the Regional competition to be held next month. Congratulations to all of the Raiders moving forward in the competition!

History Day 2021 Advancing to Regionals

*Students are placed in order randomly*

Individual Exhibit

1. Norah Barrett - Rosie the Riveter - Women’s Roles in World War II

2. Val Bezrukov - Telegraph the Most Significant Invention of the 19th Century

3. Paris Edwards - Muhammad Ali: Protesting through Athletics

4. Timothy Fallon - The Ghost Dance of 1890

5. Charlotte Monroe- Jazz Age: Hear Their Voice 

6. Gracie Green - Cuban Missile Crisis: How to Save a Nation Through Communication

7. Madeline Haider - Jane Gray Swisshelm

8. Alim Kamara - The Harlem Renaissance

9. Zanee Kidane - Women During World War II

10. Sam Laughlin - The Boundary Water Controversy

11. Patrick McQuillan - Japanese Internment Camps

12. Marvin Millard - Dead Man Walking

13. Sophie Nemo - Margaret Sanger and her Work Towards Freedom for Women

14. Jinwoo Oh - Hangui: Proper Sound to Instruct the People

15. Je’Teyah Thomas - Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam”

16. Adamari Vargas-Jimenez - Bilingual Education

17. Danny Wengler - Navajo Code Talkers: Changing Coded Communication in World War II

18. Jameson Casper - How Rock Music Spread the Counterculture

19. Ayden Bleu Burke- The Siege on Communism 

20. Gavin Parr - The Declaration of Independence

Honorable Mention

Will Archbold - The Navajo Code Talkers

Connor Huddleston - Wings of War

John Knudson - Selma to Montgomery March

Andrew Lennox - Rock and Roll’s Impact on Society

Julia Degnan- Vogue Magazine

Attila Lippai - The Wounded Knee Massacre

Colin Scanlan - Vietnam War: Through a Lense

Michael Jaunich - Elizabeth Bentley

Group Exhibit

1. Cecilia Amann, Ella Schuler and Sophia Lentz - The California Gold Rush

2. Meredith Anfang and Catherine Gaertner - Brown v. Board of Education

3. Alex Armada, Jack Moryn and Eddie Kielpkof - D-Day: Communication

4. Keira Diaz and Eladia Gonzalez - The Telegraph

5. Anders Engstrom and Charles Lancette - The Battle of Midway

6. Jake Fisher, Colton Jamieson and Devin Cardenas - Emmett Till

7. Megan Freeman and Sophie Black - Time Magazine

8. Ava Junker and Mara Gleeson - Mayo Clinic: Revolutionary Communication

9. Isaac Keomptgen and Gavin Halvorson - Miscommunication in Waco

10. Jerilyn Stark and Heart Mix - Philippine American War

11. Jack Taxdahl and Will Pfaff - How ESPN Changed Sports Programming

Honorable Mention

Ryan Warford, Micheal Bougie and Joey Sylvester - Pearl Harbor

Lucas Cernohous, Simon Houge and Louis Bailey - Montgomery Bus Boycott: Protesting Peacefully to Communicate For Equal Rights

Charlie Kimlinger and Sam Cobenais - The Enigma Code

Oliver Oberg and Cruz Mason - 1919 Black Sox Scandal

Individual Website

1. Jeffery Ko - Yam Fu: How Tanslation Impacted a Country

2. Piper Lee - Freedom Songs in the Civil Rights Movement

3. Jack Barneson - Native American Code Talkers: An Unbreakable Code

Honorable Mention

Isaac Jeffrey - 80 Seconds of Silence at the 1968 Olympics

Andrew Wells - Sioux Wars

Alexander Cava Atkinson - Communication in the Postal Strike of 1970

Group Website

1. Mason Tansey and Samuel Morford - The Vietnam War: The Living Room War

2. Maggie Roberto and Norah Malloy - American Sign Language

3. John Page, Nick Wood, AJ Espino- Protest Music of The Vietnam War

Honorable Mention

Daniel Weber and Brady Savard - Navajo Code Talkers: The Key to the War

Individual Documentary

1. Charlie Geiger - Tim Burners-Lee and the World Wide Web

2. Charles Kukuroboman - The Annexation of Hawaii

3. Liliana Lucio - Won’t Be Silent: The Women’s Suffrage Movement

4. Colin BlancoBadboy - Navajo Code Talkers

Honorable Mention

Drew Maclean - Nazi Propaganda

Ksenia Mudrik - The Cuban Missile Crisis

Research Paper

1. Chizim Abagi - Show the Pictures! Show the Images!

2. Riley Klaus - Samuel Morse and the Telegraph: A Gateway to Modern Communication

3. Isaiah Tamrat Carr - Malcolm Z and the Black Panther Party

4. Nick Wrede - The Vietnam War: The Use of Communication Through Protest To stop the United States from Fighting in Vietnam

Honorable Mention

Kesanet Melake - Jazz Age

Marshall Alexander - The Television: How it Changed the Way We Communicate Forever