We are proud to announce
the national finalists and alternates for the 2005 Wisconsin
History Day State Event. The national finalists represented
Wisconsin at the national contest June, 2005 at the University
of Maryland - College Park.
The first and second alternate in each category are offered the
opportunity to attend the national contest in the event that the
finalist entry is unable to attend.
Each finalist designs their entry to reflect the annual
theme. The entries below reflect the annual theme for 2005:
Communication in History: The Key to Understanding.
Student Name(s) |
Project Title |
School |
| Junior
Papers |
National Finalist:
Kylie Mannion |
The Right to Communicate: A Look at the Violation,
Denial, and Suppression of the First Amendment in America |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
National Finalist:
Emily Romeyn |
The Lowell Mill Girls: Communication Through
Organized Protest |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
1st Honorable Mention:
Basil Morrison |
Communicating Revolution: Common Sense and
the War for Independence |
St. James School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Aaron Durlauf |
The Effects of the Zimmermann Telegram |
EAGLE School, Madison |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Danielle Breidung |
Female Soldiers of the Civil War: Mysterious
Women Due to Limited Forms of Communication |
Waunakee Community Middle School |
4th Honorable Mention:
James Martin |
Communication in Ancient Egypt: The Rosetta
Stone and the Key to Understanding Hieroglyphs |
Martin Home School, Burlington |
| Senior Papers |
National Finalist:
Laura Romeyn |
The Columbian Exposition Speaks to America |
Central High School, La Crosse |
National Finalist:
Chelsea Martin |
Nonviolent Communication: Mahatma Gandhi |
Sparta High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Bethany Fleischman |
Controversy in Communication: The Navy's
Extremely Low Frequency System |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Meghan Whalen |
War Dog |
South High School, Waukesha |
| Junior
Individual Exhibits |
National Finalist:
Jar Xiong |
Explaining Hmong History Through Story Cloth |
Horace Mann Middle School, Sheboygan |
National Finalist:
Joey Hart |
The Pony Express: Mail Across the Country
in Ten Days |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
1st Honorable Mention:
Nikhitha Murali |
The Secret Communication in the Concentration
Camps |
Parkview Middle School, Ashwaubenon |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Sam Cox |
The Role of Communication During the Cortina
War |
St. James School, Madison |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Laura Gregor |
Broadway Communicates the American Way |
Holmen Middle School |
4th Honorable Mention:
Nicole Bartsch |
The Pony Express: Communication at the Speed
of a Horse |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
| Junior Group Exhibits
|
National Finalists:
Lucas Mynsberge
Benjamin deLong |
Navajo Codetalkers: Communicating Without
Being Understood |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
National Finalists:
Katrina Nelson
Kaylie Van Galder |
Wisconsin School for the Deaf: The Power
of Silent Communication |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kylee Brinkman
Marisa Cima,
Amanda Sherman
Samantha Whalen |
The General Store: Key to Communication |
McKinley Middle School, Kenosha |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Kirstie Schneck
Lisa Thom
Katelyn Giles |
World War II: Notifying the Home Front |
Northstar Middle School, Eau
Claire |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Nicole Rosenberg
Maddie Zdeblick |
Jane Goodall: Communicating that Changed
Our Way of Thinking |
EAGLE School, Madison |
4th Honorable Mention:
Emily Pudlo
Sarah Ogren |
Rosa Parks |
Northland Pines Middle School,
Eagle River |
| Senior Individual Exhibits
|
National Finalist:
Jessica Sielaff |
Rosie the Riveter/ We Can Do It |
Mount Horeb High School |
National Finalist:
Bethany Ratzlaff |
The Pony Express: The Human Telegraph to
California |
North High School, Sheboygan |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kelliann Blazek |
The Beat Will Defeat |
Bangor High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Meagan Siehr |
French Conquest of Burkina Faso
|
North High School, Sheobygan |
| Senior Group Exhibits
|
National Finalists:
Sara Stemper
Cody Borgstrom |
Soldiers' Letters: Experiencing War Through
Their Words |
Ashwaubenon High School |
National Finalists:
Emily Prehn
Mary Quandt |
I Love Lucy |
Mount Horeb High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kelsey Jones
Erik Nyre |
Navajo Codes: Secret Weapon of U.S. Communications
in WWII |
G.E.T. High School, Galesville |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Michael Severson
Jack Moore |
Racism in Baseball, Communicating Inequalities
through Sport |
G.E.T. High School, Galesville |
| Junior
Individual Performances |
National Finalist:
Kate Van de Loo |
Emma Edmonds: Civil War Heroine |
Kolbe Academy Home School, Eau
Claire |
National Finalist:
Lydia Richardson |
The Pony Express |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
1st Honorable Mention:
Leah Latorraca |
Communication Without Barriers: Dmitri Shostakovich |
EAGLE School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Lynn Zabel |
Eleanor Roosevelt: Paving the Way for Future
First Ladies |
Lancaster Middle School |
| Junior Group Performances
|
National Finalists:
Allison Gilmore
Hannah Starr |
Communication through Logos |
DeLong Middle School, Eau Claire |
National Finalists:
Megan Smith
Elizabeth Butler
Cassie Noel
Rachel Cantlon |
A New Life of Freedom: The Communication
of Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad |
Holmen Middle School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Jennifer Apfelbach
Alyssa Dvorak |
Jean Francois Champollion and the Rosetta
Stone |
EAGLE School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention (Tie):
KrisAnne Madaus
Julianne Bergum
Jordan Pollard |
What Grew Out of a Dream |
West Milwaukee Middle School |
2nd Honorable Mention (Tie):
Dejuante Champagne
Michael Eshun |
Frederick Douglass and His Fight for Freedom |
St. James School, Madison |
| Senior Individual Performances
|
National Finalist:
Robin Bates |
Evolutionary Communication: The Use of Puppets
Throughout History |
Logan High School, La Crosse |
National Finalist:
Janet Yearous |
Trains Without Whistles: Codes of Communication
on the Underground Railroad |
Lancaster High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Meghan Pickard |
War Cheers and Zero Years: Tecumseh &
the Prophet |
Regis High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Katherine Peck |
The Statue of Liberty: Enlightening the World |
Central High School, La Crosse |
| Senior Group Performances
|
National Finalists:
Emily Byrnes
Leslie Paquette
Alyssa Newcomb
Steve Howe |
Surviving Captivity: Communicating the Will
to Live |
Central High School, La Crosse |
National Finalists:
Kristina Nielsen
Ashley Massman |
African American Response to the World Wars |
Mount Horeb High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Katrina Treu
Drew Wallace
Jessica Ramel |
Shakespearean Tragedies |
Random Lake High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Summit Patel
Yousef Ahmed |
Arab Communication through the Camp David
Accords |
Regis High School |
| Junior
Individual Documentaries |
National Finalist:
James Maxwell |
Communication in the Underground
Railroad: The Key to Understanding the Way to Freedom |
SOTA II, La Crosse |
National Finalist:
Christina Gau |
Emmett Till: Communication from
a Casket |
D.C. Everest Junior High School, Schofield |
1st Honorable Mention:
Mark Van de Loo |
The Amazing Phraselator: Penetrating
the Language Barriers of the Eastern World |
Kolbe Academy Home School, Eau Claire |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Lucas Shappell |
Vietnam Protest: Acts that Changed
a Country's Mind |
SOTA II, La Crosse |
| Junior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
Emily Peck
Alianna Boszhardt |
Let It Be: The Beatles Communication through
Song |
SOTA II, La Crosse |
National Finalists:
Alex Frantz
David Bronson |
Murrow and McCarthy: The Hero and the Villain |
Classical School, Appleton |
1st Honorable Mention:
Morgan Raether
Jocelyn Kaese
Cameron Bjorklund |
Vietnam P.O.W. Communication: The Key to
Support and Survival |
Northstar Middle School, Eau
Claire |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Nathan Nikolai
Daniel Stuligross |
The Navajo Code Talkers |
McKinley Middle School, Kenosha |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Hele Gjertson
Stephanie Willnite |
Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan: The Challenge
to Communicate |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
4th Honorable Mention:
Aysa Sellers
Katoria Gappa |
Women's Suffrage Movement: Means of Communication |
Ladysmith Middle School |
| Senior Individual Documentaries
|
National Finalist:
Bart Van Der Puy |
Chippewa Spearing Rights in Northern Wisconsin |
Northwoods Community Secondary
School, Rhinelander |
National Finalist:
Ana Maria Vascan |
And It Spread Like Wildfire: The Romanian
Revolution |
Northland Pines High School,
Eagle River |
1st Honorable Mention:
Tyler Kozlowski |
Vietnam War Protest |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Melissa Campbell |
Message in a Bottle: Uncorking the Communication
of the Beatles |
West Salem High School |
| Senior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
Rachel Anderson
EmmaLee Bartlett |
They Called It Punk: Communicating through
Music |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
National Finalists:
David Perkins
Greg Beuchner |
POWs' Struggle for Existence |
Wilson Junior High School, Manitowoc |
1st Honorable Mention:
Jon Binsfeld
Brian Huiras
Ryan Schueller |
The Pony Express |
Random Lake High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Kalia Moua
Pashia Yang |
The Secret War and Its Lost Soldiers: How
the CIA Recruited Hmong Soldiers to Aid U.S. Foreign Policy |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
| Junior
Web Sites |
Medalist:
Eleanor Hagerman
|
Communication on Pearl Harbor and 9/11
|
University School of Milwaukee
|
Medalist:
Kristian Vaughn
|
The Pony Express
|
University School of Milwaukee
|
1st Honorable Mention:
Michael Priem
|
Navajo Code Talkers
|
Holmen Middle School
|
2nd Honorable Mention:
Zach Huempfner
|
Manitowoc Submarines: Destroying Japanese
Communication
|
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield
|
WI
Society of Mayflower Descendants Award for Early American
History |
Junior Division:
Basil Morrison |
Communicating Revolution: Common
Sense and the War for Independence |
Senior Division:
Meghan Pickard |
War Cheers and Zero Years: Tecumseh
& the Prophet |
William T. Evjue Award |
Junior Division:
Aaron Durlauf |
The Effects of the Zimmermann
Telegram |
Senior Division:
Maggie Brunk |
Communicating Needs, Understanding
Challenges: Hispanic Newspapers in Wisconsin |
Wisconsin Council
for Local History Award |
Junior Division:
Derrick Diedrick
Ryan Schuh |
The Tet Offensive: Homefront
Communication |
Senior Division:
Bart Van Der Puy |
Chippewa Spearing Rights in Northern
Wisconsin |
Wisconsin History
Award |
Junior Division:
Kylee Brinkman
Marisa Cima
Amanda Sherman
Samantha Whalen |
The General Store: Key to Communication
|
Senior Division:
Sara Stemper, Cody Borgstrom |
Soldiers' Letters: Experiencing
War Through Their Words |
