Northeastern Wisconsin National History Day Finalists – 2020 JUNIOR DIVISION Category Winners Project Title Name School Junior Paper Finalist Bridging the Barrier Keelin Hamilton Kohler Middle School Finalist Emmeline Pankhurst: Deeds Not Adalade Moore Kohler Middle Words School Finalist Tiananmen Square and the Barriers Matthew Foley Carl Traeger Broken Between People and State Middle School (Oshkosh) Alternate 1 Improvising Change: The Great George Phillips Kohler Middle Migration, Racial Barriers, and School Chicago Jazz Alternate 2 “Till Death Do Us Part”: Breaking Jessica Xiong Urban Middle the Matrimonial Barriers of the School Expatriation Act of 1907 (Sheboygan) Alternate 3 The Americans With Disabilities Erin Michon Kohler Middle Act School Junior Finalist Deinstitutionalizing America: The Rachel Yetzer Kohler Middle Individual Journey From Asylums to the School Documentary Streets Finalist Louis Armstrong Trumpets Against Trevor Graham Urban Middle Racial Barriers School (Sheboygan) Finalist Amadeo Giannini: Banking Genius Rishika Ghosh Lake Country and Barrier Breaker Academy (Sheboygan) Alternate 1 The Hyper-Patriots: Overcoming Ingrid Steinbock Lake Country Anti-War Sentiment in Wisconsin Academy During World War I (Sheboygan) Alternate 2 D-Day Cole Welnetz Bay View Middle School (Howard- Suamico) Alternate 3 Oskar Schindler and His Role in the Collin Marquardt Bay View Holocaust Middle School (Howard- Suamico) Junior Finalist Women Airforce Service Pilots: Addison Aird, Mason Bay View Group Breaking Barriers in Military Geurts Middle School Documentary Aviation (Howard- Suamico) Finalist Lisa Meitner: Breaker of Barriers Sophia OLeary, Bay View and Mother of Nuclear Fission Katelyn VanLanen, Middle School Sylvia VanDenPlas (Howard- Suamico) Finalist Nellie Bly: Breaking Barriers in Faith Gilkerson, J.R. Gerritts Publication Allison Oleszak, Middle School Madelyn Strebel (Kimberly) Junior Alternate 1 Hedy Lamarr: The Brains Behind Alexis Huss, J.R. Gerritts Group Hollywood’s Glamor Girl Madalyn Rooyakkers Middle School Documentary (Kimberly) (continued) Alternate 2 The Tuskegee Airmen: Bombing the Cole Brandemuhl, Kohler Middle Racial Barriers in History Matthew School Dierksheide, Cheveyo Haubert, Arya Patel

Alternate 3 Magic Johnson Finds His Biggest Jimmy Neist, Max Kohler Middle Battle Off the Court Reinthaler School Junior Finalist Jane Addams: Breaking Social Hayden Beekman Bayshore Individual Barriers with Hull House Community Performance Academy (Oconto) Finalist Lavinia Goodell: Breaking Gender Victoria Garces Kohler Middle Barriers in Wisconsin’s Legal School Profession Finalist Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Breaking Leeza Leisner Bay View Barriers for Equality Middle School (Howard- Suamico) Alternate 1 Desmond Doss Conscientious Landon Schwaller Lake Country Objector Academy (Sheboygan) Alternate 2 Katherine Johnson and Her Elaina Moody Bayshore Amazing Work at NASA Community Academy (Oconto) Alternate 3 Curing Panama Daniel Walter Kohler Middle School Junior Finalist Nellie Bly Breaks a Glass Ceiling Sadie Anderson, Urban Middle Group Barrier Through Investigative Elizabeth Juckem, School Performance Journalism (Sheboygan) Finalist Lorraine Hansberry: Persevering Maya Bistan, Arleth Lake Country Through Prejudice Torres, Isabel Wieck Academy (Sheboygan) Finalist Madam Secretary: Shattering the Madison Nesterick, Carl Traeger Glass Ceiling Addison Peck, Middle School Angelina Vu (Oshkosh) Junior Finalist Breaking Barriers Since 1933: Ruth Taylor Brigham Kohler Middle Individual Bader Ginsburg School Exhibit Finalist The Walleye War and Barriers to Luke Holmgren Bayshore Sovereignty Rights Community Academy (Oconto) Finalist Might of the Night Addison Horne Kohler Middle School Junior Alternate 1 Temple Grandin Sydney Peterson Freedom Middle Individual School Exhibit (continued) Alternate 2 The Pony Express Ethan Vander Linden Freedom Middle School Alternate 3 Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Division: Forrest Figueroa Lake Country Breaking Through the Hindenburg Academy Line (Sheboygan) Junior Finalist The AAGPBL : Breaking Barriers Kashvi Badiger, Kohler Middle Group In America's National Pastime Rachel Boland School Exhibit Finalist The Limping Lady Jenna Nesterick, Carl Traeger Allison Simmons Middle School (Oshkosh) Finalist The San Francisco 504 Sit In: A Elianna Matuszewski, Bay View Breakthrough in the Disability Madeline Thoreson Middle School Movement (Howard- Suamico) Alternate 1 The Legacy of Harvey Milk Brady Baker, Emily Horace Mann Presti Middle School (Sheboygan) Alternate 2 Florence Nightingale Madeline Johnson, Bay View Murphi Specht Middle School (Howard- Suamico) Alternate 3 Daughters of Bilitis: Breaking Ella Karamalegos, Kohler Middle Barriers Rung by Rung Taylor Schultz, School Isabelle Wohlgemuth Junior Finalist Game, Set, Match Anna Becker Kohler Middle Individual School Website Finalist Katherine Johnson: Breaking Racial Emerson Schueller Kohler Middle and Gender Barriers School Finalist The Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart: Aarush Vora Kohler Middle Breaking Barriers in Science School Alternate 1 The Tuskegee Airmen: Paving the Samuel Sewacki Kohler Middle Way for Desegregation in the School Military Alternate 2 The Unknown WWII Heroine Who Colton Pozniak J.R. Gerritts Broke Communication Barriers: Middle School Elizebeth Smith Friedman (Kimberly) Alternate 3 The White Rose Rebecca Naumann Urban Middle School (Sheboygan) Junior Finalist Navajo Code Talkers: Makingn and Greta Melzl, Madison J.R. Gerritts Group Breaking Barriers Mohr Middle School Website (Kimberly) Finalist Yerkes Observatory and Its Cooper McLaughlin, Carl Traeger Discoveries Ethan Oey Middle School (Oshkosh) Junior Finalist Women in Athletics: The Lasting Lindsay Biebel, Horace Mann Group Impact of Title IX Norah Yang Middle School Website (Sheboygan) (continued) Alternate 1 Harry Houdini: The Master of Brecken Cech, Sorin Kohler Middle Breaking Barriers Drevline, Paul Ritter School Alternate 2 Jack Johnson: Breaking Barriers In Amelia Allis, Julia Kohler Middle and Out of the Ring Sachse School Alternate 3 The All-American Girls Rachel Gartman, Kohler Middle Professional Baseball League: Seinbua Sander, School Breaking Barriers One Home Run at Adelynn Stanley a Time SENIOR DIVISION Category Winners Project Title Name School Senior Paper Finalist Elizabeth Blackwell: Breaking Paige Ames-Majeski Random Lake Barriers In the Medical Field High School While Opening Doors for Ambitious Women Across the Nation

Finalist Breaking Animal Rights Halle Bichler Random Lake Barriers High School

Finalist The Triangle Fire: Breaking Maria Jensen Random Lake Barriers in Labor Conditions High School and Fire Safety Alternate 1 Alexander Hamilton: Breaking Sarah Halvorsen Sheboygan North Barriers by Becoming a Vital High School Piece of the Revolution Senior Finalist The French Resistance AlexLes Sheboygan North Individual Movement: Breaking the High School Documentary Barrier of Nazi Occupation Finalist Here and N.O.W: The Lavender Kaia Stueck Wisconsin Menace Action Virtual Academy Finalist The International Space Station: Tyler Thomas Seymour Breaking Down the Barriers of Community High International Diplomacy School Alternate 1 Under Fire: A Woman Gabbey Wendorff Seymour Breaking Down the Barriers of Community High Wartime Journalism School Senior Group Finalist To Be Young, Gifted, and Eliot Algrem, Kendall Green Bay Documentary Black: Nina Simone and the Hoida Southwest High Civil Rights Movement School Finalist The History of Gay Segregation Edestein Dahlin, Green Bay Annebelle Rose Dennis, Southwest High Kayla Fuller, Jasmine School Lohman Finalist Duke Ellington: Breaking Julius Jelenic, Walker Manitowoc Racial Barriers Through Music Linboom, Justin Liska Lincoln High School Alternate 1 Hank Aaron: Beating the Babe Billy Bartle, Greta Green Bay Hansen, Janelle Novotny, Southwest High Phillip Wojcik School Alternate 2 The Little Rock Nine: Breaking Hannah Pfister, Caden Sheboygan North the Barriers of Segregation Rohadfox High School Alternate 3 Les Paul: Sound Engineer and Sawyer Rydzewski, Guitar Legend Talon Wilterdink Random Lake High School Senior Finalist Shakespeare and Desire: Brandi “Zack” Russell Sheboygan North Individual Breaking the Sexual Barrier in High School Performance English History Senior Finalist The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Idella Robley Manitowoc Individual Fire Lincoln High Exhibit School Finalist Irish Assimilation Into America Emma Mitchell Sheboygan North High School Finalist Moon Landing 1969, Apollo 11 Yalina Lee Manitowoc Lincoln High School Alternate 1 Crashing Through Wall St. Carter Straub Random Lake Barriers High School Alternate 2 King in Chicago Chloe Theis Random Lake High School Alternate 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Morgan Miller Sheboygan North High School Senior Group Finalist Fatal Disease to Chronic Illness Gabrielle Lopera, Cali Random Lake Exhibit Streff High School Finalist Ellen Henrietta Swallow Ashley Hattula, Sofia Sheboygan North Richards Russi-Amador High School Finalist Man's Best Friend: The 1925 Hannah Bauer, Melanie West De Pere Serum Run Shefchik High School Alternate 1 Breaking Barriers in History: Julia Dziekan, Cassidy Random Lake Nuclear Energy Peterson High School Alternate 2 Measles Project 2020 Ella Bonnie, Tyler Green Bay Roscoe, Grace Zhang Southwest High School Alternate 3 Henrietta Lacks: The Facts Sierra Bellue, Mallory Green Bay Kerhin, Ella Siegle, Croix Southwest High Zacharias School Senior Finalist The Orphan Train: Breaking the Meghan Haas Sheboygan North Individual Barrier of Orphan Care High School Website Finalist Saving Loved Ones After the Grace Zhang Sheboygan North Vietnam War: The National High School League of POW/MIA Families Finalist The Development and Testing Nicholas Biely Manitowoc of Atomic Weapons: Breaking Lincoln High the Barriers of Military Power School Senior Group Finalist The Sound Barrier: The First Will Bichler, Blake Random Lake Website Breakthrough On the Way To Biever, Mitchell Spaeth High School Advanced Technology

Senior Group Finalist Rebecca Arendt, Kinsey Random Lake Website The Little Rock Nine: Breaking Delwiche, Lauren Rathke, High School (continued) Barriers: One Day at a Time Elaina Ternes

BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARDS

Division Category Project Title Student Name School

Junior Individual The Walleye War and Barriers Luke Holmgren Bayshore Exhibit to Sovereignty Rights Community Academy (Oconto) Junior Individual Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Forrest Figueroa Lake Country Exhibit Division: Breaking Through Academy the Hindenburg Line (Sheboygan)

JEAN NICOLET CHAPTER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Division Category Project Title Student Name School

Individual Exhibit Breaking Barriers Taylor Brigham Kohler Middle Junior Since 1933: Ruth School Bader Ginsburg

Senior Group To Be Young, Eliot Algrem, Green Bay Documentary Gifted, and Black: Kendall Hoida Southwest High Nina Simone and School the Civil Rights Movement

WISCONSIN LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY AWARDS Division Category Project Title Student Name School

Junior Paper Newsboys’ Strike Elizabeth Finger Bayshore of 1899 Community Academy (Oconto) Group Lewis Hine and the Brayden Gard, Bayshore Junior Documentary Child Labor Act of Rowan Thiele Community 1916: Breaking the Academy (Oconto) Barriers of Child Labor Junior Individual The Hormel P-9 Laine Viestenz Bayshore Documentary Strike: Breaking the Community Barrier of Low Academy (Oconto) Wages and Poor Working Conditions Senior Individual Exhibit The Triangle Idella Robley Manitowoc Lincoln Shirtwaist Factory High School Fire

WISCONSIN LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY AWARDS Senior Paper The Triangle Fire: Maria Jensen Random Lake High Breaking Barriers School in Labor Conditions and Fire Safety