State History Day Results May 1, 2011

HM: Honorable Mention Honorable mention projects advanced to the second round of judging, but did not place as a top medalist. They are listed in no particular order as these projects are not ranked and are otherwise considered “tied” in their overall contest outcome.

Junior Individual Exhibit 1st Jenn Fabian The Cuban Missile Crisis: Kennedy's Debate Between Diplomaccy and War Breck School 2nd Camille Balhorn The Boundary Waters Treaty: Sustained Diplomacy Robbinsdale Middle School 3rd Emma Fetterly Business v. The Environment: Reserve Mining Debate Lake Harriet Community School 4th Kara O'Byrne The Orphan Trains Stewartville Middle School 5th Madeline Chaplin The Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Act of 1978 Sunrise Park Middle School HM Mitchell Rose DDT Controversy Parkview Center School HM Paige Alampi The 1980 Olympic Boycott Lake Harriet Community School HM Ryan Herrboldt Voting Age 18 or 21? Cause, Consequences and Impact! Salk Middle School HM Jake Agnew The Gold or Silver Debates: Gold Advocates Win in 1900 Dodge Middle School HM Ryan Graff A Minute to Midnight: The Cuban Missile Crisis Oak Grove Middle School HM Bonnie Hoekstra Hidden Holocaust: The Debate Around the Armenian Genocide Northfield Middle School HM Matthew Semaan The Atomic Bombing of Japan Washburn Edison Jr. Academy HM Elena Cattaneo Japanese-American Internment Camps: Justice Debated Friedell Middle School HM Yuqi Chen Nixon's Visit to China Woodland Middle School HM Siena Milbauer Joseph McCarthy - - Persecutor, Defendant, and Phenomenon Cyber Village Academy HM Peter Otness Hannibal's War: Diplomacy and Alliance Valley View Middle School (Edina) HM Larry Potter How Silent Spring Initiated a Public Debate Over the Dangers of DDT Lake Harriet Community School HM Zach Rupprecht We Hold the Rock - The Native American Occupation of Alcatraz Stewartville Middle School HM Cody Radtke Interstate Highway Act of 1956: America's Bumpy Road to Success Stewartville Middle School HM Graham Mueller Iran-Contra Affair Stewartville Middle School HM Ryan Schroeder The Struggle for 1837 and 1854 Treaty Rights in Minnesota Chisago Lakes Middle School HM Ingrid Goetz Diplomacy of the Winter War: Preserving Finland's Independence Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Bobby Ferguson Tinker vs. Des Moines: The Debate over Students' Free Speech Rights Barton Open School HM Shaina Humphrey A Class by Herself? Salk Middle School HM Neetij Krishnan The Salt Satyagraha: Diplomacy as Never Before Oak Grove Middle School HM Allie Memmott Truman's Decision: Successes, Consequences, and Failures of Hiroshima Willow Creek Middle School HM Irene Hark Wachtler 1970s Powerline Controversy - What Happens When Diplomacy Fails Highland Park Junior High HM Ezekiel D. R. Pauls To Clone or Not to Clone Cyber Village Academy HM Peter Glanville Mandele is Apartheid: Fight for Equality Carondelet Catholic School HM Mitchell Olson Should We Join? Salk Middle School HM Spencer Christopher Larsen The Camp David Accords Breck School HM Hayli Marquette Tinker vs. Des Moines Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School HM Noah Miller Comic Book Controversy Holy Rosary School Junior Group Exhibit 1st Stephanie Headrick, Madison From Famine to Feast: Debate Over the Successes and Failures of the Breck School Lommen Green Revolution 2nd Eve Zelickson, Sophie O'Bryan The Oslo Accords Diplomatic Effort to Reach Peace Breck School 3rd Thomaz Nelson, William Heyer Ending the Military Draft in 1973 Holy Rosary School 4th Yasi Kazeminy, Carlie Gustafson Furman v Georgia Suspends Capital Punishment Breck School 5th Hannah Gamradt, Leanne Kolodge, Tinker vs. Des Moines Sunrise Park Middle School Caset Miller HM Jack Caspers, Nick Caspers Diplomacy at the Net St. Thomas Academy HM Kristi Wettstone, Nikki Juberien Justice at Nuremberg: The Nuremberg Trials Kenwood Trail Middle School HM Emilia Galchutt, Sarah Grambo Votes for Women: The Fight for Equal Suffrage in Minnesota Dakota Hills Middle School HM Sam Prigge, Chad Agrimson 1946 St. Paul Teachers' Strike NRHEG ISD #2168 HM Samuel Gearou, Joshua Gearou Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase Salk Middle School HM Noah White, Jonathan Horgan Cuban Missile Crisis Robbinsdale Middle School HM Miri Taple, Sophie Elwood Money vs. Morals: The Debate over the Luxembourg Agreement Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Seleasha Roy, Tatianna McClain Backwards Step for Freedom Red Lake Middle School HM Katelynn Dorschner, Erica Pietz Brown vs. Board of Education Jackson County Central School HM Busby Dasent, Feilsal Abubakar, Chazz The Black Panther Party: "Peace or a Piece!" Anwatin Middle School Colburn, Abraham Quevedo-Zuniga HM Justin Kime, Karissa Kime The Lake Florence Dam: Rebuild, Restore, or Remove Stewartville Middle School HM Ellen Gee, Happy-Sarah Kim Tinker vs. Des Moines: Fighting for Our Rights Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Jordan Johnson, Luke Schmidt Jackie Robinson: Baseball and Beyond Stewartville Middle School HM Anna Evans, Alyssa Werght, Ellen Adoption, Who is Acceptable? Robbinsdale Middle School Schneider HM Kyra DeZeeuw, Kayla Kahl The Dred Scott Decision Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School HM Kasey Kalthoff, Madeline Warner The Seneca Falls Convention Cyber Village Academy HM Ben Bushnell, Michael Chen State Religion vs. Separation of Church and State Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Jackson Rossmiller, Luke Schewe The Nuremberg Trials - 1945-46 Northfield Middle School HM Will Anderson, Michael Maus Cuban Missile Crisis Minnewaska Area High School HM Lille Haecker, Katie Schmidt "Shoot for the Moon": The Debate Over the Race for the Moon Breck School HM Ellen Bart, Nina Bart The Matanuska Valley Colony Project of 1935 Lake Harriet Community School HM Isabel Huot-Link, Laura Souther, Freedom Summer: The Debate Over Voter Registration in 1964 Cyber Village Academy Mickelle Kaufer HM Maggie Fischer, Lilliana Loll, Rachel La Amistad Sunrise Park Middle School Miller, Joann Ukpokolo HM Nicole Kluck, Haley Nicholson Child Labor Hawley Elementary School HM Abbie Riessen, Ailie Davidson Lincoln's Pardons and Clemency: The Fate of the MN Dakota Holy Rosary School HM Mina Kian, Mira Morrison, Chloe "Dr. Death": Debate over Euthanasia Lake Harriet Community School Raver HM Taryn Wessel, Ariel Johnson Parental Involvement or Minors' Rights? Robbinsdale Middle School HM Samuel Schneider, Carter Chiglo, Truckers in the Streets: The Debate that Unionized Minneapolis Houston High School Taylor Johnston Senior Individual Exhibit 1st Merissa Wellman The Dinner Table Bargain Chatfield Public Schools 2nd Leanne Otto Reuniting a Nation: The Road to Reconstruction DeLaSalle High School 3rd Kaitlyn Lindaman Parting the Bamboo Curtain: Nixon, Mao and Ping Pong Diplomacy Winona High School 4th Nicholas Montelibano Philippine Fate: Dealing with a Nation Emerging from Oppression Cretin-Derham Hall High School 5th Brandon Fluegge Red Cloud's War: The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie St. Thomas Academy HM Cori Deming 1913 Armory Show: Debate Over Art Sleepy Eye Public School HM Kevin Towers Native American Mascots and Team Namein Sports: Honorable or Ignorant DeLaSalle High School HM Claire Park Brown v Board of Education Mankato West High School HM Sarah Miller The Catastrophic Result of Failed Diplomacy: The Dakota War of 1862 Mankato West High School HM Ellen Light Korematsu v. U.S. Highland Park Sr. High School HM Moriya Wetsman-Storch Roe v. Wade; A Woman's Fight for her Rights Highland Park Sr. High School HM Ashley Reichard Truman's Fair Deal Sauk Rapids-Rice High School HM Melanie Ideker The Wounded Knee Occupation and the Debate Over Indian Rights Houston High School HM Nate Bettin Treaty of Versailles: A Failure of Diplomacy DeLaSalle High School HM Molly Mattson Alice Paul South High School

Senior Group Exhibit 1st Adam Kneepkens, Billy Menor Debate for Economic Stability: Diplomacy at Bretton Woods Duluth East - Marshall 2nd Eduardo Sanchez Beltran, Duice Mendez vs. Westminster Roosevelt High School - Mpls Gonzaloz Sanchez, Bacilio Ortiz- Sanchez 3rd Meghan Peterson, Lauren Wounded Knee: A Cultural Renaissance Chaska High School Pleczykolan, Brianna Gasterland 4th Rachel Lindholm, William Bauer, The Scottsboro Boys: How Lies and Prejudice Changed the Court System Highland Park Sr. High School Jenny Nguyen 5th Shelby Benson, Lexie Hoffman Lusk, "I am…Death": The Atomic Bomb Jackson County Central School Brittany Woodke HM Jose Manuel Rubio Pachelo, Brianda Gilberto Basques Saldivar: The Mexican Schindler Wellstone International HS Velazquez, Ana Yeli Peres, Deisi Hernandez, Rozaura Cendejas HM Suzy Ratcliff, Ella Darger Minnesota v. Morris: The Great Tobacco Debate DeLaSalle High School HM Casey Fitting, Riley Horihan Capital Punishment in Minnesota: Justice of Murder? Houston High School HM John Hatey, Kennedy Maker, Paul The First Barbary War: Threat to American Society Mankato West High School Esslinger HM Erick Mendoza-Riveros The Death Penalty in Minnesota: Ann Bilansky's Petition for Clemency Roosevelt High School - Mpls HM Matt Bliss, Eric Sanderson The Attack on Pearl Harbor DeLaSalle High School HM Mason Moran, Justin Ness The Cuban Missile Crisis Kasson-Mantorville High ISD #204 HM Yeng Yang, Ricky Yang, Peng Thao Civil Rights Debate: Separation vs. Integration Open World Learning Community HM Sophia Olson, Emma Walker, Kathryn Failed Diplomacy: The Dakota War of 1862 St. Louis Park High School Ostrom HM Chord Buscho, Dillon Page, Aaron The Iran Hostage Crisis WEM High School Zimmer, Grant Leverson HM Ellen Stensrud, Alison Hoeper China: One Country, Two Systems Minnewaska Area High School HM Nguyen Lu, Severin Linehan, Jeremy Brown vs. Board of Education Highland Park Sr. High School Martin HM Laura Jopp, Claire Nusbaum The Scopes Monkey Trial: A Debate of Two Victories Highland Park Sr. High School Junior Individual Documentary 1st Anna Solomon The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Sunrise Park Middle School 2nd Roshini Asirvatham A Debate that "Matters": Particle or Wave? Getting it Right with Light Friedell Middle School 3rd Grant Two Bulls Wounded Knee 1973 Breck School 4th Peter Schultze The Iran Hostage Crisis Sunrise Park Middle School 5th Grace Kirkpatrick The Munich Agreement: A Failed Attempt at Debate and Diplomacy Breck School HM Maddie Lee TVA v. Hill: Dam that Fish! St. Thomas More HM Tim Renier The Panama Canal Holy Rosary School HM Nick Cortes U.S.S. Indianapolis: The Trial of Captain McVay Woodland Middle School HM Michael Hartnett The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Brian Vance Jr. Apartheid in South Africa: The Debate that lasted over 40 years Kenwood Trail Middle School HM Ian Norwood The Cuban Missile Crisis Mary of Lourdes Middle School HM Carlie Toland 1968 Miss America Protest: Second Wave of Feminism Wayzata West Middle School HM Alaina Falck Water Rights to the Colorado River Northfield Middle School HM Joseph Keiski Boundary Issues: The Boundary Waters Act of 1978 Lake Harriet Community School HM Maddie Pavek The Americans with Disabilities Act: The Struggle for Equality Friedell Middle School HM Johan Cavert Debate within the Democratic Party: The 1968 Democratic Presidential Seward Montessori School Primaries and the Debate over the Vietnam War HM Levi Roline The League of Nations Debate Chatfield Public Schools HM Mike Eiden The International Space Station Carondelet Catholic School Junior Group Documentary 1st Frances Matejcek, Grace Palmer, The United Nations' Role in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Seward Montessori School Becky Norling-Ruggles 2nd Josh Gottesman, Jack Dickinson The Iranian Hostage Crisis: The Success and Failure of Diplomacy Breck School 3rd Calvin Denker, Benjamin Keller, Adam The Iran Hostage Crisis Sunrise Park Middle School Stankiewicz 4th Harry Rothberg, Madelyn Gray, The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux South View Middle School Nathan Richman 5th Ameer Khoury, Liam Plambeck Korematsu v. United States: The Fight for Civil Rights Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Daniel Ahrendt, Alex Murray BWCA: The Environmental Debate Cook County Middle School HM Elliot Cordano, Jack Beckman Diplomacy and Debate: The League of Nations Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Jackie Shroyer, Mariah Jackels Jensen vs. Eveleth Mines Chaska Middle School East HM Brady Newcomer, Andy Claude CIA: Innocent or Guilty Willmar Junior High School HM Emily Hartman, Kalley Johnson Embryonic Stem Cell Research Delano Middle School HM Mindy Viavattine, Michael Williams The Merritt Brothers Sunrise Park Middle School HM Rebecca Lindholm, Kelley Shanahan The Willmar 8: 26 Steps that Challenged Discrimination Highland Park Junior High HM Madeline Skjervold, Hannah Operation Save a Duck: Two Oil Spills that Changed Minnesota's Future Lake Harriet Community School Fitzgerald HM Clara Jackson, Tali Ahrens-Church, Failure is Impossible: Women's Rights Debated Capitol Hill Magnet School Allison Kurtz HM Kelly Buhl, Ella Deutsch The Suez Canal Crisis Sunrise Park Middle School HM McKenzie Groth, Katie Groth, Paige U.S. Women in Combat Hawley Elementary School Burnside HM Cayli Posch, Caroline Kriske Treaty of 1854 Holy Rosary School HM Michael Ardichvili, Ryken Kreps The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact: Consequences of a Diplomatic Agreement Cyber Village Academy HM Seeta Goyal, Amelia Thompson The Cuban Missile Crisis Willow Creek Middle School Senior Individual Documentary 1st Selena Erstad The Hetch Hetchy Controversy: A Debate of Conservation vs. Exploitation Highland Park Sr. High School 2nd Molly Nemer A Crisis of Constitution Henry Sibley High School 3rd Bailey Hilgren Frances Perkins vs. the Tammany Twins: The New York Labor Law Debate Chatfield Public Schools 4th James Hartnett Redefining American Diplomacy: The Treaty of Portsmouth St. Thomas Academy 5th Erik Hilgren The State of Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco Chatfield Public Schools HM Emily Riemer The Treaty to End All Peace Two Harbors High School HM Anneliese Lee-Reid Benjamin Franklin: The Diplomat of Freedom South High School HM Stryker Thompson The 1925 Scopes Trial Como Park High School HM Andy Berkey The Wounded Knee Massacre Cedar Mountain High School HM Elowyn Pfeiffer The Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973: The Debate that Impacted Native Highland Park Sr. High School Americans Around the United States HM Lydia Newman-Heggie "Un-American" Activities in the Film Industry Highland Park Sr. High School HM Emmet Kowler 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis South High School Senior Group Documentary 1st Jennifer Mailee Lor, Evie Harper The Role of the Eugenicists in the Immigration Debate of 1924 Open World Learning Community 2nd Mara Johnson, Clara Dockter, Near v. Minnesota DeLaSalle High School Vanessa Voller 3rd Clare Wojda, Rory Stoll-Green, Briana Debating the Research Techniques of Nazi Medical Experimentation DeLaSalle High School Jacox 4th Hannah Hein, Gillian McCuistion Diplomatic Breakdown in the Chinese Opium Wars St. Louis Park High School 5th Brendan Jackson, Hunter Korpi The Treaty of Traverse de Sioux: Debate of Diplomacy Chaska High School HM George Hirschboeck, Sam Debating the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Sleepy Eye Public School Hirschboeck, Tia Cselovszki, Brandon Roiger HM Jasmine Carlson, Selena Hernandez, ERA and Women's Movement Roosevelt High School - Mpls Amy Oukpasong HM Paige Schueller, Jennifer Cozzi, Cade The Equal Rights Amendment Duluth Central High School McDonald HM Danielle Appleman, Kayla Goldfarb Debates on Punishment: The Diplomacy of the Nuremberg Trials St. Louis Park High School HM Paul Wageman, Jack Kenney, Dane 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott: Moscow DeLaSalle High School Schreiber HM Kelsey Box, Kaila Juntunen, Annie Debating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Lois Jensen and the Deer River High School Olson Successful Case HM Jose Madrigal Zuniga, Miletzi Valero The Broken Promises Wellstone International HS Montiel HM Audrey Cuthbert, Clara Schultz Prohibition South High School HM Ben Schulz, Ben Hughes, James Eioff, Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Dropping the Bombs DeLaSalle High School Steve Juliff, Austin Lankford HM Kathleen Traynor, Allyson Schultz, Isolationism v Internationalism: The Formation of the United Nations DeLaSalle High School Dana Mansfield Junior Individual Performance 1st Sarah Becker Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 OLPH Homeschool 2nd Jeremy T. Stephan Oliver North Holy Rosary School 3rd Kaitlyn Mulhern This Land is Our Land: The Debate Over the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Seward Montessori School 4th Hannah Myers The Cuban Missile Crisis Northland Community School 5th Kiana Alleman Coya Come Home: Politics or Potty Training? CHOF School HM Erin Kennedy Saving the Jews by Destruction: The Debate Over Bombing Auschwitz Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Addie Berg With Colors Flying Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Emma Berg Russian Nationalism: A Musical Revolution Robbinsdale Middle School HM Brent Larson Miranda v. Arizona Holy Rosary School HM Elizabeth LaCasse The Consequences of a Successful Trade Mission Buffalo Middle School HM Destiny Saxowsky Orphan Trains: A New Beginning Salk Middle School HM Kayleigh Larson Diplomacy During the Cuban Missile Crisis Salk Middle School HM Katy Bagniewski Strange Fruits Hanging from Poplar Trees St. Francis of Assisi HM Maeve Sheridan The Murder of Emmett Till Carondelet Catholic School HM Dani Dolphin National Security vs. Human Rights Carondelet Catholic School Junior Group Performance 1st Eleanor Lieder, Rose Wimberley Setting the Table for War Ramsey Junior High School 2nd Carly Zimmerman, Maggie Schmidt Civilize or Demoralize: The Dawes Act of 1887 Cyber Village Academy 3rd Zoe Gale, Ty Gale Darwinism v. Creationism, The Debate that Divided America Cyber Village Academy 4th Samuel Wehr, Flannery Glisczinski, The 19th Amendment Holy Rosary School Elle Christian 5th Lexi Hilton, Alexandra Skinner Diplomacy at Appomattox Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Hannah Nolte, Nicole Eiken, Sara Number 19: What it Took to Free Half of America Mabel-Canton High School Vettleson-Trutza, Phoenix Peterson HM Ingrid Thyr, Lewis White Thelidomide: The Medicine that Reformed the American Drug Industry Breck School HM Solveigh Johnson, Abby Denman, Spare a Buck, Save a Duck Lakes Intern’l Language Academy Megan Gale HM Ryan Bramwell, Amos Vodis, Max Comic or Crime? Robbinsdale Middle School Perkins HM Rhea Kohli, Lindsey Turner, Jessica He The History of Informed Consent and Medical Ethics Friedell Middle School HM Sofie Kim, Julia Florey Buck v. Bell: From One Sterilization to Thousands Breck School HM Magdaline Daugherty, Emma Statt, The Cuban Missile Crisis Sunrise Park Middle School Julia Whitman HM Andrea Thurnheer, Amelia Weir Soldiers Without Guns Northfield Middle School HM Siri Beckman, Katie Grathwol, Maddi See it Now: The Debate Between Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph Susan B. Anthony Middle School Erdall, Lizzie Easter McCarthy HM Brittani Dyrud, Kaeli Grafnitz Waltz Susan B. Anthony Middle School HM Gabriella Jung, Jessica Dexheimer, Title IX: Getting Girls in the Game Salk Middle School Madeline Jung HM Brigid Boswell, Sahra Farah, Monique Salem Witch Trial Jefferson Community School Hughes HM Bailey Stolz, Elizabeth Raymakers Jensen vs. Eveleth Chaska Middle School West Senior Individual Performance 1st Alex Westad Diplomacy Which Sparked a Debate that Split the Rock: The Indian White Bear Lake High School Occupation of Alcatraz 2nd Clara Linehan The 1948 Displaced Persons Act: A Debate of Selective Diplomacy Chisago Lakes High School 3rd Emma Beecken The Devastating Effects of the 1930's Immigration Debates Spring Lake Park L.A. Lighthouse 4th Monica Nelson Fanny Brin: Women's Voice for Peace Homeschool - John Paul II 5th Luke Harris John Adams: The Undiplomatic Diplomat Schaeffer Academy HM Annette Betting-Fuentes Rosie to Betty: Women in Post WWII DeLaSalle High School Senior Group Performance 1st Shelbi Hayenga, Michaela Shapiro Debates on Anti-Semitism and the Diplomacy of the Morganthau Report St. Louis Park High School 2nd Mackenzie Schuett, Katelyn Schuett Cutting Away Your Cares Lobotomy: the Debatable Cure for Madness CHOF School 3rd Nicholas Westberg, Derek Dunbar, Crisis with Cuba: Declassified Schaeffer Academy Andrew Nelson, Daniel Michelson 4th Matthew Goldammer, Stephen Thie, Deal or No Deal: The Debate over FDR's Policies St. Thomas Academy Simon Lemaire, Richie Nunez, Phil Evans 5th Sam Schrepfer, Kira Braun Bose v. Gandhi DeLaSalle High School HM Xander Krohnfeldt, Eva Krohnfeldt A House Divided: The Dred Scott Debate Homeschool - Krohnfeldt Junior Paper 1st Emma Chosy The Failed Attempt to Use the Atomic Bomb as a Diplomatic Weapon Lake Harriet Community School 2nd Abigail Lee The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 Capitol Hill Magnet School 3rd Christina Reinhardt Munich: A Failure in Diplomacy Oak Grove Middle School 4th Anders Billund-Phibbs The Gulag: Stalin's Forced Labor Camps Oak Grove Middle School 5th Alice Coffman The Debate that Divided America Twin Cities Academy HM Frances Wetherall Women's Suffrage: The Debate that Lasted Decades Twin Cities Academy HM Elena Renken The Haudenosaunee: A Peaceful Confederacy of Six Nations Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Danika Partridge The Atomic Bomb Debate: The Decision that Changed the World Susan B. Anthony Middle School HM Kate Brown The Iranian Hostage Crisis: Diplomacy in Revolutionary Iran St. Thomas More HM Jaleh Shambayati The Berlin Conference: Dividing the "Dark Continent" Laura Jeffrey Academy HM Rosie Laine The Scopes Trial: The Right to Know and the Freedom to Believe St. Thomas More HM Cameron Swenson The Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Oil, People, Animals, or All of the Above? St. Thomas More HM Travis Doyle Versailles: A Treaty with its Consequences Susan B. Anthony Middle School HM Emma Hirsch The Nineteenth Amendment: The Vote or Not to Vote, that is the Question Salk Middle School Senior Paper 1st Taylor Barker Debates of the Diplomats: Paul Nitze and George Kennan Fridley High School 2nd Brandon Johnson Closing Shop: The Struggle to Unionize Minneapolis White Bear Lake High School 3rd Michael Henry Ishitani Relations between the United States and the Republic of Vietnam Mayo High School 4th Alex Berlin The Spark of God: The Scopes Trial of 1925 White Bear Lake High School 5th Armonia Balch Near v. Minnesota DeLaSalle High School HM Ellen Ahlness The Norwegian and Minnesota Military Troop Exchange White Bear Lake High School HM August Leinbach Debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts and Viable Political Dissent South High School HM Frances Rossini A New Division: The Treaty of 1818 White Bear Lake High School HM Natcher Pruett Appomattox Court House: The Beginning of the Healing Blake School HM Kloie Rush-Spratt The Debate over Indian Sovereignty: A Failure of Diplomacy South High School HM Marshal Landrum World War I: The Diplomacy that Led Up to the "War to End all Wars" Como Park High School HM Kathryn Yetter On Strike at Hormel: The Longest Strike of the 1980s and its Consequences Como Park High School HM Joey Viavattine The "Golden Door" Opens and Closes for Chinese Immigrants White Bear Lake High School HM Annaliese Johnson Music in Diplomacy: The 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev Moscow Summit Chatfield Public Schools Junior Individual Website 1st Nathaniel Larson The Panama Canal Treaties Lake Harriet Community School 2nd Kamran Kelly The Consequences of Prohibition and the Volstead Act Capitol Hill Magnet School 3rd Parsa Najmaie Failed Diplomacy: The Debate Over Kashmir Breck School 4th Nikita Salovich Prescribing Death: Dr. Kevorkian and the Debate of Assisted Suicide Capitol Hill Magnet School 5th Emma Luten Debate within the Women's Suffrage Movement Breck School HM Henry Cousineau Tesla and Marconi's Debate of the Patent for the First Wireless Telegraph Breck School HM Ellen Yuska Sister Kenny: Paralyzing the Orthodox Treatment Laura Jeffrey Academy HM Abbey Meyer Roe v. Wade: The Evolution of Abortion Kenwood Trail Middle School HM Emily Ratner Women in the Rabbinate Breck School HM Seth Colbert-Pollack The Minneapolis Truckers' Strike of 1934 Lake Harriet Community School HM Anders Lowry Japanese Internment Camps During WWII Lake Harriet Community School HM Aaron Dwyer 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters' Strike Salk Middle School HM Jackson Hillmann Curt Flood, the Reserve Clause, and Free Agency Northfield Middle School HM Gunnar Aas Japanese American Internment Camps Woodland Middle School Junior Group Website 1st Samantha Coffler, Kennedy Borman "False Sense of Security": The Debate over Japanese American Internment Lake Harriet Community School 2nd Sammy Carlson, Grace Haldeman Iran Hostage Crisis: Consequences of Failed Imperialism Lake Harriet Community School 3rd Kylee Atkinson, Kayla Miron, Tessa Korematsu v. United States Sunrise Park Middle School Takash 4th Audrey Dombro, Emily Kinne Establishing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Highland Catholic School 5th Cate Huss, Fiona Hannan, Isabella The Jungle: Food Processing and FDA Debate St. Rose of Lima Barona HM Olivia Nofzinger, Ruth Axtell-Adams Troubled Waters: The Boundary Waters Controversy Murray Junior High School HM Anna Goetter, Claire Newhouse The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Debate: Beyond "He Said, She Said" Ramsey Junior High School HM Jahred Lapastora, Paige Moy Lincoln vs. Douglas: Debates on Slavery Dakota Hills Middle School HM Maya Smith, Alexis Nelson The Laramie Treaty: An Indian Declaration of Independence Capitol Hill Magnet School HM Katie Tennis, Elena Moeller Internationalists vs. Isolationists and the United States' Entrance into WWII Highland Catholic School HM Moriah Gerber, Emily Aschenbeck Tinker vs. Des Moines Pioneer Ridge Middle School HM Carmen Nusbaum, Katie Williams, Treaty of Versailles: The Fight to Ratify South Junior High Ashtyn Swenson HM Danny Stafki, Chris Lofgren The Occupation of Alcatraz Hawley Elementary School Senior Individual Website 1st Carlie Cervantes The Bracero Program DeLaSalle High School 2nd Cara Johnson The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 DeLaSalle High School 3rd Ted Engelen The Week that Changed the World: Nixon Goes to China DeLaSalle High School 4th Hannah Boehme The Loyalty Question DeLaSalle High School 5th Michael G. Michalik The Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons St. Thomas Academy HM Joseph Thelen Debates on Total War: The Battle of Dresden St. Louis Park High School HM Ben Slattery Debate and Diplomacy: The Cuban Missile Crisis Highland Park Senior High School HM Helen Girmay Schistosomiasis: A Word Problem Roosevelt High School HM Shiranthi Goonathilaka Affirmative Action: Debate v. Allen Bakke Twin Cities Academy HM Max LaQua Watergate: The Use of Executive Privilege DeLaSalle High School HM Seng Ye Xiong The Secret War in Laos DeLaSalle High School HM Nathanael McNair "Captain America": Comic Book Diplomacy in WWII DeLaSalle High School HM Kendra Buettner Love Canal: Give them Liberty, They Already Have Death Becker High School HM Joseph Peterson Lincoln, Rising to Fame One Debate at a Time St. Michael-Albertville High School Senior Group Website 1st Jack Duffy, Peter Hamel, Lily Meyer Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment DeLaSalle High School 2nd Saida Mahamud-Tukri, Caroline Western Intervention: The 1953 American-led Coup in Iran South High School Stevens 3rd Charlie Mullen, David Erickson, Jimmy Supplying the World: The Debate and Diplomacy in the Lend-Lease Act St. Thomas Academy Allender 4th Brianna Weinzetl, Erin Christensen Americanization of Native Americans Cedar Mountain High School 5th Luke Mallinger, Pat Deasey, Kevin Land of Milk and Honey: The Debate of Israel St. Thomas Academy Gust HM Padra Xiong, Kweh Lay Paw The Debate and Diplomacy of the 19th Amendment Washington Secondary Complex HM Courtnie Dritz, Sarah Bensing The Banning of Huckleberry Finn Fridley High School HM Ali Bennett, Mikaela Maier, Matt The Abortion Debate: Roe v. Wade Fridley High School Duehn HM Miranda Langford, Maggie Russell The Heart Transplant DeLaSalle High School HM Jack Griep, Mikey Hagen The Pentagon Papers DeLaSalle High School HM Leah Hiller, Victoria Snyder The Missouri Compromise Mankato West High School HM Betsy Pearson, Ali Nelson Otter Tail Couty Seat Perham High School HM Landon Thiel, Gary Steffenson The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Hiroshima Minnewaska Area Schools HM Angela Greiveldinger, Christine The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 Fridley High School Hitomi