We are proud to announce
the national finalists and honorable mentions for the 2010 Wisconsin
History Day State Event held on May 1, 2010. The national finalists
represented Wisconsin at the national contest June 13-17, 2010,
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 2010: Innovation in History: Impact
and Change.
Student Name(s) |
Project Title |
School |
| Junior
Papers |
National Finalist:
Ben Zwief |
Frances Perkins and the Fair Labor Standards
Act |
University School of Milwaukee |
National Finalist:
Annelise Escher
|
Frances Perkins: The Innovator Behind Social
Security |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
1st Honorable Mention:
Mara Blumenstein
|
The Beatles: The Most Influential Band in
History |
EAGLE School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Samuel Wang
|
The Atomic Bomb: Impact and Change |
Horace Mann Middle School, Sheboygan |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Kellyanne Fitzgerald
|
Submarines: Innovation in Warfare |
Fitzgerald Home School, Racine |
4th Honorable Mention:
Stephanie Koss
|
Jazz Music: Changing the World One Note at
a Time |
Holmen Middle School |
| Senior Papers |
National Finalist:
Elizabeth Stephens
|
Adapt or Die: The Impact of Revolutionary
Changes in Agriculture in the 20th Century |
Mount Horeb High School |
National Finalist:
Emily Nelson
|
The Magic Pill: How Oral Contraception Changed
America |
Ladysmith High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Aaron Peterson
|
Saving Lives and Brewing Trouble at Los Alamos:
The Atomic Bomb |
North High School, Sheboygan |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Anne Wermedal
|
The March of Dimes: Innovative Fundraising,
A Dime at a Time |
Bangor High School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Elizabeth Wendt |
The Daughters of Liberty and the Innovative
Roles of Women During the American Revolution |
Monona Grove High School, Monona |
4th Honorable Mention:
Christina Griffin
|
The Life and Legacy of Michael Jackson |
Holmen High School |
| Junior
Individual Exhibits |
National Finalist:
Sarah Vetsch
|
Earth Day: A Change for the World |
Durand Junior High |
National Finalist:
Jordyn Thompson
|
Coronary Bypass Surgery: A 1964 Medical Innovation |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
1st Honorable Mention:
Sanjana Kumar
|
Bird Respirators: A Breath of Life for Millions
|
EAGLE School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Julia Hanson
|
Unintended Consequences: Eli Whitney's Cotton
Gin |
University School of Milwaukee |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Micayla Darrow |
Clarence Birdseye: The Father of Frozen Food |
Bay View Middle School, Green
Bay |
4th Honorable Mention:
Sarah Coppenbarger |
Shakespearean Linguistics: Innovating the
World through Words |
Grantsburg Middle School |
| Junior Group Exhibits
|
National Finalists:
Lauren Gogan,
Chloe Schaefer
|
Nothing Has Changed War as the Airplane |
University School of Milwaukee |
National Finalists:
Jordan Mason,
Nicole Tomter
|
The First Motorized Airplane |
Holmen Middle School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Hannah Shaw,
Catherine Stolz
|
Tupperware: Innovating Kitchens Across the
Globe |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Noah Fleuchaus,
Taylor Stoiber
|
Bar Codes: Reading between the Lines |
Richfield Elementary School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Rachel Kent,
Marah Kays
|
Sesame Street: An Innovation in Preschool
Television |
Northstar Middle School, Eau
Claire |
4th Honorable Mention:
Sam Neville,
Devon Opelt,
Alex Mohr
|
The Lust for Lumber |
Neillsville Middle School |
| Senior Individual Exhibits
|
National Finalist:
Caitlin Geary
|
The Model T: Paving the Way |
Homestead High School, Mequon |
National Finalist:
Kelly Ratz
|
Lewis Hine: Crusader with a Camera |
Cochrane-Fountain City Schools,
Fountain City |
1st Honorable Mention:
Mackenzie Schmitt
|
Higgins Boats: The Boats that Changed Warfare |
Appleton North High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Monica Sieg
|
Broadway Presents: Rodgers & Hammerstein,
Innovators of Musical Theater |
Mount Horeb High School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Jordyn Prell
|
Animation Innovations: Disney's Impact on
Entertainment |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
4th Honorable Mention:
Michael Foulkes
|
The Nuclear Power Plant |
Homestead High School, Mequon |
| Senior Group Exhibits
|
National Finalists:
Ryan Weisenbeck,
Jordan Lieffring |
Changes in the Milking Industry: Mooooving
through History |
Durand High School |
National
Finalists:
Ashley Daubs,
Daniel Schmidt,
Ashley Kaspar
|
The Bessemer Process: Steeling America |
Necedah High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kali Fleischauer,
Kaelah Maslow
|
Special Effects: Changing Movies, Audiences,
and the Realm of Possibilities |
Grantsburg High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Karli Wittenberg,
Sam Abramovich
|
The Discovery of the Double Helix |
Homestead High School, Meqon |
3rd
Honorable Mention:
Amy Yang,
Peter Xiong,
Courtney Xiong |
Social Contract Philosophy on Natural Rights |
International Peace Academy,
Milwaukee |
4th Honorable Mention:
Kayla Sippl,
Molly Upp,
Elizabeth Hermann
|
Harry Houdini: The Man Behind the Magic |
Seymour Community High School |
| Junior
Individual Performances |
National Finalist:
Alexis Pae
|
The Innovation of Jazz Dance |
University School of Milwaukee |
National Finalist:
Taylor Garbe
|
Laparoscopic: Bigger Is Not Always Better |
Horace Mann Middle School, Sheboygan |
1st Honorable Mention:
Derek Rott
|
Landships and the Great War |
University School of Milwaukee |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Katherine Burelbach
|
Isadora Duncan |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Hannah Boettcher
|
1918 Flu Pandemic |
Bay View Middle School, Green
Bay |
4th Honorable Mention:
Elizabeth Harth
|
Bra Burning: Miss America Pageant 1968 |
EAGLE School, Madison |
| Junior Group Performances
|
National Finalists:
Mary Diermeier,
Tori Charnetzki
|
Pasteurization: The Concept that Changed
the Way You Look at Milk |
Onalaska Middle School |
National Finalists:
Rebecca Anderson,
Jessica Anderson
|
The Never Ending Street of Success |
Northland Pines Middle School,
Eagle River |
1st Honorable Mention:
Katherine Gerdes,
Malaika Flores
|
Lasers: The Light that Transformed the World
|
EAGLE School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Gabrielle Peterka,
Anna Lane
|
Benjamin Franklin |
DeLong Middle School, Eau Claire |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Anna Brown,
Sadie Ottow,
Becky Felix
|
Shinichi Suzuki: Innovative Educator Impacting
Music Forever |
Longfellow Middle School, La
Crosse |
4th Honorable Mention:
Gabby Berg,
Aubrey Nigh,
Mary Catherine Ruesch,
Catherine Trowbridge
|
TV Dinners: How They Changed the American
Family |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwatosa |
| Senior Individual Performances
|
National Finalist:
Krista Fogltanz
|
Oscar Opens the Lid |
Lincoln High School, Manitowoc |
National Finalist:
Angela Kalas
|
The Great Awakening |
Whitewater High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Connor Wahrman
|
The Printing Press and the Protestant Reformation |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Emily Gluck
|
The Innovation of America's National Parks |
Random Lake High School |
| Senior Group Performances
|
National Finalists:
Mackenzie Sinnen,
Emily Szczepanski |
My Face is My Fortune |
Random Lake High School |
National Finalists:
Andrew Tautges,
Paul Pelayo
|
Nuclear Energy |
Whitewater High School |
1st
Honorable Mention:
Kristina Stark,
Laura Belling
|
Forever Different, Forever Changed |
Regis High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Xee Yang,
Pang Xiong,
Douaxong Chang
|
Jazz Music |
International Peace Academy,
Milwaukee |
| Junior
Individual Documentaries |
National Finalist:
Madeleine Smith
|
Jigs do the Work Much Better:
The Impact of Mechanization on the Anthracite Breaker Boys |
St. James School, Madison |
National Finalist:
Tom Compas
|
Frank Lloyd Wright: Innovations
in Green Architecture |
EAGLE School, Madison |
1st Honorable Mention:
Jenni Geurink
|
Jonas Salk: Innovations in Vaccine
Technology |
D.C. Everest Junior High School, Schofield |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Alexis Abrego
|
The Blalock-Taussig Shunt: A
Bold Surgery for Blue Babies |
D.C. Everest Junior High School, Schofield |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Avery Ernstmeyer
|
Innovations of Wheat Farming
in Wisconsin |
Whitehall Middle School |
4th Honorable Mention:
Jennifer Slogar
|
George Eastman: Making Everyday
Moments, Kodak Moments |
D.C. Everest Junior High School, Schofield |
| Junior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
Caroline Blair,
Caroline Idsvoog |
How CNN Changed Our World |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwatosa |
National Finalists:
Sam Chilsen,
Ben Reimler
|
Kindertransport: Journey to Safety |
Onalaska Middle School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Natalie Klemond,
Annie Erickson
|
The Innovation of Monty Python |
Longfellow Middle School, La
Crosse |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Jordan Dittmer,
Ben Johnson
|
Mathew Brady and His Innovation in History |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Maggie Dawes,
Charlie Hollister
|
Helping Hands through History |
Lake Country Middle School, Hartland |
4th Honorable Mention:
Ellie Dunn,
Annie Topp
|
Anesthesia: How it Has Changed Medicine |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwatosa |
| Senior Individual Documentaries
|
National Finalist:
Jake Wrasse
|
Broadcast Technology: Changing Lives One
Channel at a Time |
Durand High School |
National Finalist:
Sahitya Raja
|
Defeating the Speckled Monster: The Smallpox
Vaccine |
Homestead High School, Mequon |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kayla Huemer
|
Thermus Aquaticus: A Truly Revolutionary
Microbe |
Mount Horeb High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Bill Mulligan
|
Aldo Leopold: The Conservation Movement |
Lake Mills High School |
3rd
Honorable Mention:
Julia Wermuth
|
Snap, Crackle, Pop! How Ready-to-Eat Breakfast
Cereal Made a Crunch Heard 'Round the World |
Homestead High School, Mequon |
4th Honorable Mention:
Kirsten Stuck
|
The Visionary: Vince McMahon |
Fond du Lac High School |
| Senior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
Chamila Amithirigala,
Kelsey Obremski
|
H. H. Bennett: Exposing a Photographic Frontier |
North High School, Sheboygan |
National Finalists:
Megan Hermann,
Blake Neuberg
|
Antisepsis to Asepsis: The Road to Sterilization
in Surgery |
Southwest High School, Green
Bay |
1st Honorable Mention:
Elizabeth Tavolier,
Miriam Kleynerman,
Sidney Wolf
|
Birth Control: The Revolution |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Josh Paulson,
John Gasao
|
Les Paul: The Greatest Innovator in Music
History |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Abbey Wiegand,
Jennifer LeCaptain
|
1950s Rock 'n' Roll |
Wilson Junior High School, Manitowoc |
4th Honorable Mention:
Ben Binversie,
James Reilly,
Alex Fish
|
Typewriter: Rewriting History |
Homestead High School, Mequon |
| Junior
Websites |
National
Finalist:
Megan Waples
|
Newsreels in World War II |
University School of Milwaukee |
National
Finalist:
Teddy Boesen |
The Homestead Act: The Innovation that Settled
the West |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwatosa |
| 1st
Honorable Mention:
Ben Wrasse |
The Elevator: Taking the World to New Heights |
Durand Junior High |
2nd
Honorable Mention:
Erik Kernozek
|
Leonardo DaVinci: Innovation through Art,
Science, and Technology |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Calvin Cottrell
|
Progressivism and the Wisconsin Idea |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
4th Honorable Mention:
Sam Heiden,
Alec Johnson
|
The Jet Engine: Soaring into History |
Holmen Middle School |
| Senior
Websites |
National Finalists:
Laura Harris,
Courtney Banker
|
Rachel Carson: Mother of Modern Environmentalism |
Seymour Community High School |
National Finalists:
Dakota Rine,
Hayley Selves |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
1st Honorable Mention:
Nikki Harris,
Stephanie Jaskolski,
Allison Opgenorth
|
Levi Strauss: The Man Behind Blue Jeans |
Seymour Community High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Anissa Lynch,
Lucy Wallitsch
|
Coco Chanel: Changing Fashion, Changing Lives |
Mount Horeb High School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Erin Niemisto,
Abby Lois
|
American Bandstand: The Show that Shaped
a Generation |
Mount Horeb High School |
4th Honorable Mention:
Mari-Ann Bui
|
Music: The Romantic Era |
Germantown High School |
WI
Society of Mayflower Descendants Award for Early American
History |
Junior Division:
Julia Hanson, University School of Milwaukee
|
Junior Individual Exhibit: Unintended
Consequences: Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin |
Senior Division:
Elizabeth Wendt, Monona Grove High School
|
Senior Paper: The Daughters of
Liberty and the Innovative Roles of Women During the American
Revolution |
Robert and Carroll
Heideman Award for Outstanding Archival Research |
Junior Division:
Jena Bliss, EAGLE School
|
Junior Paper: Guglielmo Marconi's
Innovation: A Major Change in the World of Communication |
Senior Division:
Bill Mulligan, Lake Mills High School
|
Senior Individual Documentary:
Aldo Leopold: The Conservation Movement |
Wisconsin Council
for Local History Award |
Junior Division:
Anna Stoneman, EAGLE School
|
Junior Individual Exhibit: The
Babcock Test: Revolutionizing the Dairy Industry |
Senior Division:
Kailey Hilby, Bangor High School
|
Senior Individual Documentary:
Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project: Transforming
and Transporting |
John C. Geilfuss Award
for Wisconsin History |
Junior Division:
Avery Ernstmeyer, Whitehall Middle School
|
Junior Individual Documentary:
Innovations of Wheat Farming in Wisconsin |
Senior Division:
Michelle Pehler, Cochrane-Fountain City Schools
|
Senior Individual Documentary:
Education from a Radio Station: Wisconsin's 9XM-WHA Radio |
American Labor History
Award |
Junior Division:
Madeleine Smith, St. James School |
Junior Individual Documentary:
Jigs do the Work Much Better: The Impact of Mechanization
on the Anthracite Breaker Boys |
Senior Division:
Ben Herrenbruck, Nicolet High School
|
Senior Individual Documentary:
Daniel Hoan |
American Military
History Award |
Junior Division:
Kellyanne Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Home School
|
Junior Paper: Submarines: Innovation
in Warfare |
Senior Division:
Wesley Berg, Mount Horeb High School
|
Senior Individual Documentary:
Admiral Hyman Rickover |
| National History Day
in Wisconsin Teacher of Merit - Junior Division |
| Chuck Taft |
University School of Milwaukee |
| National History Day
in Wisconsin Teacher of Merit - Senior Division |
| Beth Maglio |
Mount Horeb High School |
| National History Day
in Wisconsin "Rookie" Teacher of the Year |
Melani Winter
|
International Peace Academy,
Milwaukee |
