National History Day Finalists – 2017

JUNIOR DIVISION Category Winners Project Title Name School Junior Finalist James Meredith: Beating The Odds Klein Bay View Middle Individual School (Howard - Documentary Suamico) Finalist Dr. Jack Kevorkian: Taking a Stand for Grace Peterson D.C. Everest Terminally Ill Patients by Participating Junior High in Physician-Assisted Suicide School Finalist Irena Sendler: The Unsung Hero of the Madeline Martin D.C. Everest Holocaust Junior High School Finalist John Muir: The Man Who Changed the Emily Johnson D.C. Everest View on Nature Junior High School Alternate 1 Wiltold Pilecki… A Stance Inside Bay View Middle School (Howard - Suamico) Alternate 2 Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor? John Belton D.C. Everest Junior High School Junior Finalist John Muir's Fight up The Endless Callan Lapinskas, Bay View Middle Group Mountain Calvin Muraski School (Howard - Documentary Suamico) Finalist Mildred Fish Harnack and the Red Sophia Schumerth, Ella JR Gerritts Middle Orchestra Buddenhagen School (Kimberly) Finalist Virginia Hall: The Women Who Aramie Theiss, Hannah D.C. Everest Inspired the Physically Disabled to Not Mullins Junior High Limit Themselves School Finalist Mildred Fish-Harnack Olivia Seidl, Abby Freedom Middle Retzlaff, Ainsley School Baumgart Alternate 1 Edward Snowden Alexander Scheibe, St. Peter Lutheran Jonathan Ewart, School (Appleton) Jackson Fleming, Zeke Punzel Junior Finalist Passports to Freedom: The Mission of Callie Jagler Bay View Middle Individual Raoul Wallenberg School (Howard - Exhibit Suamico) Finalist Here I Stand (Martin Luther) Sydney Millar JR Gerritts Middle School (Kimberly) Finalist Taking a Stand To Teach All ... One Josie Flisakowski Bay View Middle Student at a Time School (Howard - Suamico) Finalist Deborah Sampson Reid Westphal Freedom Middle School

Category Project Title Name School Junior Alternate 1 Declaration of Independence Ashley Vondrachek Freedom Middle Individual School Exhibit Alternate 2 Prudence Crandall: Taking a Stand Ellie Vincent Bay View Middle Towards Equality Through the "Young School (Howard- Ladies and Little Misses of Color" Suamico) Academy Alternate 3 Frank Lloyd Wright: Taking a Stand in Jackson Boersma D.C. Everest Architecture Junior High School Junior Finalist Kathrine Switzer: Taking a Stand to Katherine Kitslaar, Bay View Middle Group Run Paige Boehm School (Howard- Exhibit Suamico)

Finalist WASPs: Standing to Fly Emma Dreier, Greta Bay View Middle Marquardt School (Howard- Suamico)

Finalist Little Rock Nine Haylie Weyenberg, Freedom Middle Gabby Johnson School

Finalist Curt Flood Conor Dickrell, Jon Freedom Middle Verhasselt School

Alternate 1 Serving Up Equality At Woolworth Maddy Gobat, Jackson Bay View Middle Herson School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 2 Oppenheimer's Stand Anthony Treu, Cole JR Gerritts Middle Hansen School (Kimberly)

Alternate 3 Coco Chanel's New Closet Olivia Rosera, Liz Ely, Bay View Middle Alicia LaCrosse, School (Howard- Cassandra Kriescher Suamico)

Category Winners Project Title Name School Junior Finalist A Woman's Stance: "Carry"ing the Myriah Hodgson Bay View Middle Individual Nation Into Prohibition School (Howard- Performance Suamico)

Finalist Lucy Parsons: The Fight for the 8 Hour Danni Langseth D.C. Everest Work Day Junior High School

Finalist Irena Sendler: Standing for the Children Alex Yedica Bay View Middle School (Howard- Suamico)

Finalist Nellie Bly: A Journalist's Stand for the Madalyn Paulsen Bay View Middle Truth School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 1 Ending A Revolution: The Battle Of Faith Patenaude Bayshore Yorktown Community Academy (Oconto Junior Finalist Rosie the Riveter Kennedy Christianson, D.C. Everest Group Claire Marquardt, Junior High Performance Grace Woodward School

Finalist Standing up for Science - the Scopes Brennen Haynes, Ethan JR Gerritts Middle Trial Sommer School (Kimberly)

Finalist Secret Savior: The Story of Irena Emilly Rasmussen, Bay View Middle Sendler Andrew Hodgson, Ava School (Howard- Heyman Suamico)

Finalist Betty Friedan Brooklyn Rasmussen, Bayshore Sophia Szymanski, Community Juliana Sieber Academy (Oconto) Alternate 1 Marsha Johnson and the Stonewall Riots Regan Kettner, Emma D.C. Everest Footit Junior High School

Alternate 2 Theodora Winton Youmans and Carrie Phaelan Shultz, Jenessa Bayshore Chapman Catt and the Fight for Schneider, Josie Sieber, Community Women’s Rights Lauren Murphy, Academy (Oconto) Kalista Susa Alternate 3 Wood Guthrie Rachel Antonson, D.C. Everest Mckenna Green Junior High School

Category Winners Project Title Name School Junior Finalist The Stonewall Riot Alison Hill Bay View Middle Individual School (Howard- Website Suamico)

Finalist Japanese American Draft Resistance: Cole Pierucki Bayshore Refusing to Fight Without Rights Community Academy (Oconto) Finalist Gilbert Baker: Taking a Stand By Kate Magnuson D.C. Everest Raising a Flag Junior High School

Finalist The Stonewall Riots David Decker Bay View Middle School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 1 Nelson Mandela Sahra Ahmed Bay View Middle School (Howard- Suamico) Alternate 2 Branch Rickey Brady Marten D.C. Everest Junior High School Junior Finalist Nellie Bly: Female Stunt Reporter Elizabeth Ritger, JR Gerritts Middle Group Rebecca Schank, Sofie School (Kimberly) Website Langenhuizen, Melzl

Finalist D-Day Operations Utah and Omaha Benjamin Halabeck, D.C. Everest Aidan Earll Junior High School

Finalist Sophie Scholl and The White Rose Grace Holmgren, Bayshore Eleanor Finger, Carson Community Kramer Academy (Oconto)

Finalist William Lloyd Garrison: Reporting to Isabelle Tiegs, Hailie Bayshore Abolish Slavery McDonell Community Academy (Oconto) Alternate 1 Alexander Hamilton & The Federalist Alaina Farr, Claire Bay View Middle Papers Pritzl School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 2 1968 Summer Olympic Protest Evan Friendshuh, Sam Bay View Middle Breider, Matthew School (Howard- DeNamur Suamico)

Alternate 3 The All American Girls Professional McKenna Hammond, D.C. Everest Baseball League Cassidy Eckes Junior High School

Junior Paper Finalist Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: Taking a Olivia Dsouza Bay View Middle Stand to Transform Indian Society School (Howard- Suamico)

Finalist The Emancipation Proclamation: The Kaitlyn Fischer Bay View Middle First Stand To Slavery School (Howard- Suamico)

Finalist The 1968 Olympic Protest Keegan Bohlman D.C. Everest Junior High School

Finalist The Boston Tea Party: Taking a Stand Ellie Klumb Bay View Middle for Our Independence School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 1 The Lahore Resolution And the Muslim Ashton Thiele Bayshore Protests For the Divide Of India to Community Create a Homeland: Splitting the Map Academy (Oconto)

Alternate 2 Arnold Douwes and the Dutch Aidan Appel D.C. Everest Resistance: The Stand Against the Nazis Junior High School

Alternate 3 Ida B. Wells: The Woman Who Sydney Kurszewski D.C. Everest Revolutionized the Journalism World by Junior High Taking a Stand Against Lynching School

SENIOR DIVISION Category Winners Project Title Name School Senior Finalist The Ainu: Rekindling the Yefang Lee D.C. Everest Individual Culture in Which Was Lost Senior High Documentary School

Finalist Title IX: Equalizing Education Maggie Plouff Bay Port High for Everyone School (Howard- Suamico)

Finalist Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Sarah Tanck Bay Port High School (Howard- Suamico)

Finalist Taylor Biese Bay Port High School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 1 Greensboro Four Sophia Sorenson Bay Port High School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 2 a Tumultuous Gracie Sessler D.C. Everest Life Senior High School

Alternate 3 Mao Zedong: Chairman of the Michael Knoll D.C. Everest Masses Senior High School

Senior Group Finalist A Leader Left Unrecognized: Claire Gelhaus, Jade D.C. Everest Documentary The Life And Legacy Of Reigel Senior High School

Finalist Aldo Leopold Jonathan Tesch, Jacob Seymour Halfman Community High School

Finalist Indira Gandhi: Born a Leader Savannah Boden, D.C. Everest Madeline Krolow Senior High School

Finalist Toussaint Louverture: The Isabelle Hoida, Erin Southwest High "Black Napoleon" of the West Phelps, Lexie Petitjean, School (Green Indies Natalia Kedzierski Bay)

Alternate 1 The Lionheart of Stalingrad Sebastian Schmiling, Algoma High Abigail Robinson School Alternate 2 Jane Goodall Takes a Stand Daniel Rusch, Kelly Bay Port High Dolgner School (Howard- Suamico) Senior Finalist Gandhi's Salt March Erin Liang Southwest High Individual School (Green Exhibit Bay)

Finalist Mary E Walker: Breaking Keta Oettinger D.C. Everest Stereotypes Senior High School

Finalist Golda Meir Natalie Levy D.C. Everest Senior High School

Finalist Valdimir Lenin Eli Alsteen D.C. Everest Senior High School Senior Group Finalist The White Rose Movement: Gabby Anderson, D.C. Everest Exhibit Students Against Tyranny Malorie Schmoll Senior High School

Finalist Ruby Bridges Maya Jacques, Abbey Bay Port High Ambrosius, Izzy School (Howard- Huempfner, Jenna Suamico) Jacques

Finalist Ending the European Witch Sam Birkett, Nicole John Dewey Hunts Petrouske Academy of Learning (Green Bay) Finalist Actual Reality: Act Up & the Maria Wood, Alexander Clintonville High Fight Against AIDS Huber School

Alternate 1 Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bailee Fox, Kayley Seymour 1955 Egger Community High School

Alternate 2 Sherman Booth and the Pain of Sierra Nessinger, Algoma High Slavery Makayla Guilette, Bailey School Bomber

Category Winners Project Title Name School Senior Finalist John Walsh: Father of a Ashley McRann Clintonville High Individual Murdered Child: on 'The Hunt' School Website for Fugitives

Finalist Alexander Hamilton: Defender Graci Schomaker Freedom High of the United States School Constitution

Finalist Riot Grrrl Revolution: Taking a Sarah Giordano D.C. Everest Stand for Third Wave Senior High Feminism School

Finalist Rising Up: Angela Davis Christina Yang Bay Port High School (Howard/Suamico) Alternate 1 Deng Xiaoping: The Little Man Emma Van Ermen D.C. Everest That Took a Stand for Modern Senior High China School

Alternate 2 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Caitlin Barkow Southwest High School (Green Bay)

Alternate 3 The Stonewall Riots: Standing Allison Heckert D.C. Everest Up for Standing Out Senior High School

Senior Group Finalist Betty Friedan: In the Fight for Brooke Lotto, Abigail Bay Port High Website Women's Rights Parsons, Rachel Hoffman School (Howard/Suamico) Finalist Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Caitlin Piotrowski, Southwest High Fire Isabella McNaughton, School (Green Alexia Siegle, Jenna Bay) Tackmier

Finalist Megan Halambeck and D.C. Everest Nixon's War on Drugs: Taking Horeb Mahmood Senior High

a Stand in History School

Finalist John Muir: Taking a Stand Ingrid Hansen, Regan Southwest High Allen, Rachel Cutlan School (Green Bay)

Alternate 1 Silent Spring's Silent Tili Moua, Marialuisa Southwest High Beginning Hernandez School (Green Bay)

Alternate 2 The Holocaust and Nuremberg Tommy Alston , Olivia D.C. Everest Trials Affects on the Modern Fernstaedt Senior High World Today School

Senior Paper Finalist : Creating a Emily Huffcutt D.C. Everest Superpower Senior High School

Finalist Governor Orval Faubus: Mason Messner D.C. Everest Taking a Stand for Segregation Senior High School

Finalist Joseph Stalin- Taking a Stand Ben Peloquin D.C. Everest Through Genocide Senior High School

Finalist Chiune Sugihara: A Real Life Victoria Harvel Bay Port High Hero School (Howard- Suamico)

Alternate 1 Martin Luther King Jr: Karigann Wood Bay Port High Leadership for All Generations School (Howard- Suamico)

Senior Finalist We're Not Gonna Take It: Dee Grace Toebe Algoma High Individual Snyder vs. the PMRC School Performance Senior Group Finalist The Juvenile Justice System: Haley Cveykus, D.C. Everest Performance An Unjust Cycle in History Sazama, Felysity Cha, Senior High Alex Radke School

BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARDS

Division Category Project Title Student Name School

Junior Individual Frank Lloyd Wright: Taking a Jackson Boersma D.C Everest Junior Exhibit Stand in Architecture High

Senior Senior Group Aldo Leopold: Redefining Jacob Halfman and Seymour Documentary Mans’ Relationship with the Jonathan Tesch Community High Land School