We are proud to announce
the national finalists and alternates for the 2008 Wisconsin
History Day State Event held on May 3, 2008. The national finalists
represented Wisconsin at the national contest June 15-19, 2008
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 2008:
Conflict and Compromise in History.
Student Name(s) |
Project Title |
School |
| Junior
Papers |
National Finalist:
Paul Escher
|
Refusal to Compromise: Conflict Stemming
from the 1953 American-led Coup in Iran |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
National Finalist:
Maya Agata
|
Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Compromise
to a Conflicted Past |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
1st Honorable Mention:
Claudia Elvidge
|
Wisconsin's Own Rosie the Riveter: Nellie
Wilson |
SOTA II, La Crosse |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Rachel Gewiss
|
Project ELF: The Navy Conflict That Could
Cost Lives |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
| Senior Papers |
National Finalist:
Alexis Wilkinson
|
Gaining Ground for the Fundamentalist Tornado:
The Scopes Trial |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
National Finalist:
Amanda Snodgrass
|
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Eye-to-Eye with
Disaster |
Mount Horeb High School, Mount
Horeb |
1st Honorable Mention:
Amanda Kent
|
All Eyes on Hortonville: A Teachers' Strike
that Impacted Our Nation |
Northland Pines High School,
Eagle River |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Dylan Jennings
|
To Board or Not To Board: The Struggle for
Wisconsin Tribes to Retain Their Identity |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
| Junior
Individual Exhibits |
National Finalist:
Hannah O'Dea
|
Conflict and Compromise in Northern Ireland:
The Role of the Peace People |
EAGLE School, Madison |
National Finalist:
Carolyn Raihala
|
Shedding Old Ways, Learning New Customs:
Lizzie Black Kander's Aid to European Jewish Immigrants,
1895-1940 |
EAGLE School, Madison |
1st Honorable Mention:
Meghan Johnson
|
Susan B. Anthony: Uncompromising Women's
Suffrage |
Northstar Middle School, Eau
Claire |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Laura Bunn
|
Land Wealth vs. Human Rights in El Salvador:
Class Conflict Unresolved by Compromise |
EAGLE School, Madison |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Alexander Bettadapur
|
Eyeball to Eyeball |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
4th Honorable Mention:
Piper Meisinger |
Dams for Dams Sake |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
| Junior Group Exhibits
|
National Finalists:
Victoria Busse, Breanna Zuck, Mckenzie Malaise, Michelle Morgan, Elizabeth
Robertson
|
The Flambeau Mine |
Ladysmith Middle School, Ladysmith |
National Finalists:
Melissa Wagner, Jordan Welnetz
|
A Bitter Pill in Hortonville |
Northland Pines Middle School,
Eagle River |
1st Honorable Mention:
Alexander Camp, Morgan Kolinski
|
Salem Witch Trials |
Northland Pines Middle School,
Eagle River |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Sammie Leibham, Brianna Skufca
|
Title IX in Sports: Erasing the Stereotype |
Horace Mann Middle School, Sheboygan |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Jade Steele, Brittany Taylor, Brooke Hansen |
Marsh Road Controversy |
Longfellow Middle School, La
Crosse |
4th Honorable Mention:
Matthew Winter, Aaron Senkbeil |
Jackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier
|
Horace Mann Middle School, Sheboygan |
| Senior Individual Exhibits
|
National Finalist:
Valerie Dingman
|
Mineral Point Mining: The Good, the Bad and
the Ugly |
Random Lake High School, Random
Lake |
National Finalist:
Mitchell Voter
|
The Beginnings of Gang Life in America: Real
Gangs of New York in the 1800s |
Central High School, La Crosse |
1st Honorable Mention:
Ambur Smith
|
Brown v. Board of Education |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Amanda Landwehr
|
One Child Policy |
North High School, Sheboygan |
| Senior Group Exhibits
|
National
Finalists:
Katelyn Lubinski, Alex Moeller |
Burger Battle |
Seymour Community High School,
Seymour |
National
Finalists:
Rebecca Raj, Elizabeth Schoenfeldt
|
Wisconsin v. Yoder |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
1st Honorable Mention:
Michael Mathson, Thomas Fish
|
The Conflict at Kohler |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Lisa Moehlman, Melissa Merklein
|
Agent Orange |
Mount Horeb High School, Mount
Horeb |
| Junior
Individual Performances |
National Finalist:
Jennie Stage
|
The First Wisconsin Milk Strike |
Kaleidoscope Academy, Appleton |
National Finalist:
Adam Anderson Waggoner
|
Shoeless Joe's Truth |
Red Smith Middle School, Green
Bay |
1st Honorable Mention:
Alexis Ingman
|
The Kohler Strike: 7 Years of Brutal Conflict
Ending in One Simple Compromise |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Zoe Huddleston
|
Title IX: Leaving Boys Behind |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
| Junior Group Performances
|
National Finalists:
Kevlyn Holmes, Julia Rothacker
|
Kennedy and Khrushchev: The Leaders of Two
Nations |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
National Finalists:
Sophie Gerdes, Sonia Urquidi
|
Eva Peron: The Two Faces of Argentina |
EAGLE School, Madison |
1st Honorable Mention:
Amy Nycz, Jamie Weigel, Alexander Anania
|
The Allis Chalmers Strike of 1946 |
West Milwaukee Middle School,
West Milwaukee |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Caroline Bridges, Brooke Kwasny, Jessica Trinkl
|
Not For Ourselves Alone |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
| Senior Individual Performances
|
National Finalist:
Anna Jensen
|
Gandhi: The Relevance of the Salt March |
Random Lake High School, Random
Lake |
National Finalist:
Benjamin Jones
|
The Battle of Bannockburn |
Manitowoc Lincoln High School,
Manitowoc |
1st Honorable Mention:
James Brown
|
Sherman Booth and His Fight Against Slavery |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Nathan Ruffolo
|
History of the 32nd Division |
West High School, Appleton |
| Senior Group Performances
|
National
Finalists:
Erin Millen, Tyler Martell
|
The Lost Generation |
Manitowoc Lincoln High School,
Manitowoc |
National Finalists:
Mary Ellen Ostrowski, Rick Parmeter Jr.
|
Employees' Rights Go Down the Drain: The
Kohler Strikes of 1934 and 1954 |
Regis High School, Eau Claire |
1st
Honorable Mention:
Clark Zinzow, Kim Stonewerth, Anna Foucault, Ben Cipriano
|
Scopes Trial |
Whitewater High School, Whitewater |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Joshua Kassing, Kathryn West, Chris Wirz |
Star Wars: Galileo and the Church |
Regis High School, Eau Claire |
| Junior
Individual Documentaries |
National Finalist:
Nate Smith
|
The Chinese Exclusion Era: Conflict
and Compromise on Gold Mountain |
EAGLE School, Madison |
National Finalist:
Jeffrey Zhao
|
The Kent State Shootings: Dealing
With Dissent |
EAGLE School, Madison |
1st Honorable Mention:
Christian Blank
|
Slavery in the Constitution |
Kaleidoscope Academy, Appleton |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Jake Wrasse
|
Martin Luther: The Spark that
Ignited the Reformation |
Durand Junior High, Durand |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Alexandra Zuleger |
Balancing Man's Conflict with
Nature |
D.C. Everest Junior High School, Schofield |
4th Honorable Mention:
Kaitlyn Rothamer |
Operation Mongoose: Inability
to Compromise Led to Concealed Enmity |
D.C. Everest Junior High School, Schofield |
| Junior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
John Mullooly, Henry Luedtke
|
Turmoil in Tosa |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwatosa |
National Finalists:
Will Guerin, Jack McCarthy, Jordan Weber
|
Small Town, Big Strike: The Story of the
1974 Hortonville Teachers' Strike |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwatosa |
1st Honorable Mention:
Brigid Transon, Allison Lund, Megan Baltz
|
My Lai |
Lake Country Middle School, Hartland |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Rachel Seebach, Rachel Sloan
|
Iditarod: The 1925 Serum Run |
Holmen Middle School, Holmen |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Malia Thao, Xae Vang, Shue Shiane Yang
|
Hmong Migration |
Longfellow Middle School, La
Crosse |
4th Honorable Mention:
Jack Casey, Nick Ivarson, Adam Brostowicz |
The Catastrophe of the War that Never Was |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
| Senior Individual Documentaries
|
National Finalist:
Anna Patel
|
London Bombardments: Sacrifice in the Face
of War |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
National Finalist:
Laura Ball
|
Ruffled Feathers: The Origins of the Conservation
Movement |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kristen Vincent
|
One Team, Two Cities |
Suring High School, Suring |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Samantha Murphy
|
The Woman's Hour Has Struck: The Conflicts
and Compromises of Theodora Youmans |
Cochrane-Fountain City Schools,
Fountain City |
| Senior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
Alexandra Cohn, David Aeschlimann
|
The Sterling Hall Bombing: The Destruction
of a Movement |
West High School, Madison |
National Finalists:
Sophia Zebell, Sasha Stadler
|
Mayor Without Compromise |
University School of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee |
1st Honorable Mention:
Dylan Jordee, Roland Will, Chelsey Eley
|
The Kickapoo Dam Project |
Waunakee High School, Waunakee |
2nd Honorable Mention:
John VandenHeuvel, Tyler Friestrom, Dennis Schneider
|
German Prisoners of War in Wisconsin |
Seymour Community High School,
Seymour |
| Junior
Web Sites |
National
Finalist(s):
Joanna Weng
|
Nanjing Massacre |
Velma Hamilton Middle School,
Madison |
National
Finalist(s):
Eli Fessler
|
The Free Software Movement of 1983 |
EAGLE School, Madison |
1st
Honorable Mention:
Graeme Sua, Chase Thomashide, Austin Dahl
|
Brown v. Board of Education |
Holmen Middle School, Holmen |
2nd
Honorable Mention:
Joey Lukasik
|
Project ELF: Essential Land-to-Sea Transmitter
or Environmentally Lousy Fiend? |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
| Senior
Web Sites |
National Finalist:
Sonya Hochkammer |
The Antis: Opposition to Woman Suffrage |
Manitowoc Lincoln High School,
Manitowoc |
National Finalist:
Jessica Schummer |
Japanese Internment Camps: Blessing or Catastrophe |
Fall Creek High School, Fall
Creek |
1st Honorable Mention:
Choua Khang, Bao Lee |
The Conflict and Compromise of the Hmong
Genocide in Laos |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Ben Kaat, Dylan Holtz |
Paris Peace Conference: How Compromise Led
to Conflict |
Random Lake High School, Random
Lake |
WI
Society of Mayflower Descendants Award for Early American
History |
Junior Division:
Christian Blank
Kaleidoscope Academy
|
Slavery
in the Constitution
Junior Individual
Documentary |
Senior Division:
Valerie Dingman
Random Lake High School
|
Mineral Point Mining: The Good,
the Bad and the Ugly
Senior Individual Exhibit |
Robert and Carroll
Heideman Award for Outstanding Archival Research |
Junior Division:
Jennie Stage
Kaleidoscope Academy
|
The First Wisconsin Milk Strike
Junior Individual Performance |
Senior Division:
Bailey Mulholland, Gretchen Miron
Kimberly High School
|
A Black Man's Struggle in a White
Man's War
Senior Group Documentary |
Wisconsin Council
for Local History Award |
Junior Division:
Grant Ida, Vincent Meyer
DeLong Middle School
|
Men of the Woods
Junior Group Documentary |
Senior Division:
Kristen Vincent
Suring High School
|
One Team, Two Cities
Senior Individual Documentary |
John C. Geilfuss Award
for Wisconsin History |
Junior Division:
Joey Lukasik
D.C. Everest Junior High School
|
Project ELF: Essential Land-to-Sea
Transmitter or Environmentally Lousy Fiend?
Junior Web Site |
Senior Division:
John VandenHeuvel, Tyler Friestrom, Dennis Schneider
Seymour Community High School
|
German Prisoners of War in Wisconsin
Senior Group Documentary |
American Labor History
Award |
Junior Division:
Amy Nycz, Jamie Weigel, Alexander Anania
West Milwaukee Middle School
|
The Allis Chalmers Strike of
1946
Junior Group Performance |
Senior Division:
Eleanor Hagerman
University School of Milwaukee
|
The Allen-Bradley Strike of 1970
Senior Individual Documentary |
American Military
History Award |
Junior Division:
Elizabeth Harris, Jennifer Glaze
Neillsville Middle School
|
Operation Baby Lift: American
Women in the Vietnam Conflict
Junior Group Performance |
Senior Division:
Kelsey Kopp
Whitehall High School
|
Okinawa: One Marine's Perspective
Senior Individual Exhibit |
| Wisconsin's Richard T.
Farrell Teacher of Merit |
| Dr. Gregory Wegner |
UW-La Crosse |
