We are proud to announce
the national finalists and honorable mentions for the 2011 Wisconsin
History Day State Event held on May 7, 2011. The national finalists
represented Wisconsin at the national contest June 12-16, 2011,
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 2011: "Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes,
Failures, Consequences."
Student Name(s) |
Project Title |
School |
| Junior
Papers |
National Finalist:
Jacob Van Den Heuvel |
The Potsdam Conference |
University School of Milwaukee |
National Finalist:
Anna Stoneman
|
The Turning Point of the Cold War: The Reykjavik
Summit of 1986 |
EAGLE School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Hannah Larson
|
America's Forgotten Secret: Harry Hamilton
Laughlin and the Eugenics Movement |
Longfellow Middle School, La
Crosse |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Hunter Dowds
|
The Tiananmen Square Massacre |
Prairie River Middle School,
Merrill |
| Senior Papers |
National Finalist:
Sara Walski
|
No Sense of Decency: The Censure of Joseph
McCarthy |
Cochrane-Fountain City Schools |
National Finalist:
Elizabeth Karron
|
Diplomacy for Survival: Successes, Failures,
and Consequences of the Menominee Restoration Movement |
Whitefish Bay High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Anna Olson
|
Japanese Rule in Korea: An Absence of Debate
and Diplomacy |
West High School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Ian Hill
|
Spearfishing: Conflict, Controversy, Conclusions |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
| Junior
Individual Exhibits |
National Finalist:
Maisy Dodge |
Beginnings of Change: Peg Brenden's Pre-Title
IX Case |
Durand Middle School |
National Finalist:
Ben Dickmeyer
|
Banned and Challenged Children's Books: Are
People too Sensitive? |
Longfellow Middle School, La
Crosse |
1st Honorable Mention:
Michael Plaza
|
Spearfishing Controversy: The Northwoods
Battle |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Carson Schneider
|
The Stamp Act of 1765: The Price to Pay for
Unity |
Kohler Middle School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Jack Votava
|
Debate Denied: The Construction of Badger
Ordnance Works |
EAGLE School, Madison |
4th Honorable Mention:
Sofia Garcia-Velez
|
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwatosa |
| Junior Group Exhibits
|
National Finalists:
Katherine Stein, Caroline Criste
|
Child Labor During the Industrial Revolution
and the Strikes that Ended It |
Holmen Middle School |
National Finalists:
Aleena Numaan, Anna Prising
|
Triangle Fire: Changing the Face of Industrialism |
University School of Milwaukee |
1st Honorable Mention:
Sanjana Kumar, Shivani Kumar
|
Kashmir Dispute: Failed Diplomacy of the
United Nations (1948-1953) |
EAGLE School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Rhiana Pochman, Maria Oachs
|
Economic Gain vs. Human Value: The British
Miners' Strike of 1984-1985 |
Grantsburg Middle School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Alina McIntyre, Nicole Lawson
|
Salem Witch Trials |
Velma Hamilton Middle School,
Madison |
4th Honorable Mention:
Austin Arenz, Bryan Lemmer
|
The World's Scariest Days |
Sheboygan Falls Middle School |
| Senior Individual Exhibits
|
National Finalist:
Sara Miller
|
Golda Meir: Difficult Decisions Prior to
the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
National Finalist:
Sara Hilliger
|
Island Trees v. Pico |
Whitewater High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Mackenzie Schmitt
|
WASP: Stung by Disappointment and Forgotten
by Many |
North High School, Appleton |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Annie Schoenfeldt
|
The Kohler Company Strike: National vs. Local
Company Unions |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Madeline Gluck
|
Wolves in Wisconsin: The Debate Continues |
Random Lake High School |
4th Honorable Mention:
Drew Litrenta
|
John Carlos and Tommie Smith: Breaking the
Tape for Black Power |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
| Senior Group Exhibits
|
National Finalists:
Kate Willadsen, Holly White |
Married Women's Property Rights: Wisconsin
Constitutional Debate |
Cochrane-Fountain City Schools,
Fountain City |
National
Finalists:
Johanna Lauer, Mariah Zastrow
|
Broken Promises and Failed Diplomacy: The
Collapse of the Treaty of Traverse Des Sioux |
Grantsburg High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Ben Lawton, Alex Knaus
|
The Sterling Hall Bombing |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Jenna Michel, Tiffani Moyer
|
The Inescapable Debate: Abortion, Religion,
and Politics in the United States |
Grantsburg High School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Amy Yang, Peter Xiong, Courtney Xiong |
The University Declaration of Human Rights |
Hmong American Peace Academy,
Milwaukee |
4th Honorable Mention:
Magan Wildman, Andrea McAtee, Ashley Krueger
|
Indian Independence Movement |
North High School, Sheboygan |
| Junior
Individual Performances |
National Finalist:
Anneka Johnson
|
When Men are Hungry They Help Themselves:
A Story of the Dakota Conflict of 1862 |
Grantsburg Middle School |
National Finalist:
Julia Veitinger
|
Why Really the Moon? |
University School of Milwaukee |
1st Honorable Mention:
Katie Wardinski
|
Olympia Brown and the Women's Suffrage Movement |
Lincoln Intermediate School,
West Allis |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Shannon Konkol
|
The Hortonville Teacher's Strike: The Debate
that Changed United States History |
D.C. Everest Junior High School,
Schofield |
| Junior Group Performances
|
National Finalists:
Josh Blumenstein, James Alexander-Young
|
The Cuban Missile Crisis |
EAGLE School, Madison |
National Finalists:
Finn Voichick, David Heim
|
The Treaty of 1804: A Failure of Diplomacy |
EAGLE School, Madison |
1st Honorable Mention:
Bekah Risch, Allison Balder
|
Lewis Hine's Diplomatic Actions Regarding
the Debate of Child Labor |
Holmen Middle School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Aaron Ash Cutajar, Will Rosean
|
Black or White? |
University School of Milwaukee |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Elizabeth Weber, Mara Todd
|
Men Use Brains, Women Wear Chains |
Kohler Middle School |
4th Honorable Mention:
Kayla Rockymore, Savanna Meo
|
The Bay View Massacre: An Unknown Tragedy |
Bay View Middle School, Green
Bay |
| Senior Individual Performances
|
National Finalist:
Ryan Eisenman
|
Peace in Paris: Short Term Success and Final
Failure |
D.C. Everest Senior High School |
National Finalist:
Emily Gluck
|
A View On Slavery: Mary Lincoln |
Random Lake High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Caitlin Amick
|
Operation TORCH |
Mount Horeb High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Katie Julson
|
Carrie Nation and Zelda Fitzgerald: Contrasting
Views of the Temperance Movement |
Whitewater High School |
| Senior Group Performances
|
National Finalists:
Charlie Labuzzetta, Briana Schwabenbauer |
The Wisconsin Bennett Law of 1889: Americanization
Debated |
Holmen High School |
National Finalists:
Rachel Heuer, Alex Heuer
|
Justice Harry Blackmun: Law and Medicine
in Roe v. Wade |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
1st
Honorable Mention:
Bryce Woldt, Josh Rynish, Reed Schneider, Calahan Skogman
|
Wisconsin's Capital Punishment Debate |
Seymour Community High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Sara Eastman, Becca Schaberg, Kira Smith |
One Young Girl Bridging Racial Gaps |
Southwest High School, Green
Bay |
| Junior
Individual Documentaries |
National Finalist:
Lizzy Schmida
|
POW Debates During the Korean
War |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
National Finalist:
Sam Schlesinger
|
The Comic Book Debate of the
1940s and 1950s |
University School of Milwaukee |
1st Honorable Mention:
Caroline Blair
|
The Clock Strikes Midnight: The
1970 Strike at Allen-Bradley |
St. Jude the Apostle School, Wauwatosa |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Maya Jourdan
|
The International Military Tribunal
Trial: Bringing Justice to the Holocaust |
D.C. Everest Junior High School, Schofield |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Charlie Burton
|
The Kensington Runestone: America's
Uncelebrated Discovery |
University School of Milwaukee |
4th Honorable Mention:
Aili Desai
|
The Child Labor Amendment: A
Step on the Progressive Path to Raise our Children Properly
|
EAGLE School, Madison |
| Junior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
Caroline Idsvoog, Annie Topp
|
The Camp David Accords: President Carter's
Quest for Peace in the Middle East |
St. Jude the Apostle School,
Wauwautosa |
National Finalists:
Elena Schultz, Samantha Hoar
|
The Scopes "Great Monkey" Trial |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
1st Honorable Mention:
Claudia Tourville, Stephanie Rink
|
I Went to Win: Jesse Owens, the 1936 Olympics,
and the Debate Over Racism |
JR Gerritts Middle School, Kimberly |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Rachel Feder, Megan Quinlan
|
The Berlin Crisis |
Lake Country Middle School, Hartland |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Micaela Nordeen, Jill Pfitzinger
|
Tiananmen Square |
Lake Country Middle School |
4th Honorable Mention:
Valerie Every, Amanda Meo
|
For the Future Generations: China's One Child
Policy |
Bay View Middle School, Green
Bay |
| Senior Individual Documentaries
|
National Finalist:
William Mulligan
|
Gandhi: Mass Diplomacy |
Lake Mills High School |
National Finalist:
Chamila Amithirigala
|
The League of Nations: A Failed Endeavor
for Peace and Neutrality |
North High School, Sheboygan |
1st Honorable Mention:
Clare Bergmann
|
Bottoms Down: The Prohibition Era |
Regis High School, Eau Claire |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Meghna Kurup
|
The Himalayan Blunder: The Sino-Indian Border
War of 1962 |
Southwest High School, Green
Bay |
| Senior Group Documentaries
|
National Finalists:
Natalie Mathes, Hayley Gray-Hoehn
|
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: A Mission
in Diplomacy |
Brookfield Central High School
|
National Finalists:
Gretchen Miron, Bailey Mulholland, Brenna Mulholland
|
Die Berliner Mauer: Debate, Diplomacy, and
Reunification |
Kimberly High School |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kanani Nunies, Kendrick Powless, Noelle Metoxen
|
A Government of Our Own |
Oneida Nation High School |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Becca Bagniewski, Bethany Schmitt
|
Human Rights for All: Eleanor Roosevelt and
the Debate Behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
Cochrane-Fountain City Schools |
| Junior
Individual Websites |
National
Finalist:
Emma Mutschelknaus
|
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Sister Suffragette |
Lincoln Middle School, La Crosse |
National
Finalist:
Jonas Wells
|
Women in Space: Soaring Into the Future |
Bay View Middle School, Green
Bay |
| 1st
Honorable Mention:
Rhys Enderle |
Debate and Diplomacy While Fighting: The
Korean Armistice |
EAGLE School, Madison |
2nd
Honorable Mention:
Sarah Sutherland
|
There's More Than Meets the Eye: The Walleye
War |
Kohler Middle School |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Brady Schmelling
|
The Cold War |
Prairie River Middle School,
Merrill |
4th Honorable Mention:
Hank Biznek
|
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Cold War Heats
Up |
Kohler Middle School |
| Junior Group Websites |
National
Finalists:
Mac Schmidt, Jack Weissburg
|
Mao, Nixon, and the Athletes Who Served Up
Ping-Pong Diplomacy |
EAGLE School |
National
Finalists:
John Venable, Philip Shuler
|
Strategic Bombing: Necessary Tactic or War
Crime |
University School of Milwaukee |
| 1st
Honorable Mention:
Ruby Peltonen, Shellie Newago, Arne Martinson |
Chief Buffalo's Diplomacy and the Debate
Over Ojibwe Removal |
Bayfield School District |
2nd
Honorable Mention:
Faye Parks, Noelle Grapentine-Benton
|
Bomb or Battle: The Decision to Drop the
Atomic Bomb |
EAGLE School, Madison |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Christopher Stammer, Dakota Klein, Carlie Ostrom, Tony Glendenning
|
The Cuban Missile Crisis |
Bay View Middle School, Green
Bay |
4th Honorable Mention:
Katie Baerwaldt, Kaela Schudda
|
The League of Nations: A Step Forward for
Peace |
EAGLE School, Madison |
| Senior Individual Websites |
National
Finalist:
Allison Halter
|
The Scopes Trial: Consequences for Modern
Education |
La Crosse Central High School |
National
Finalist:
Ben Wrasse
|
Broken Promises: Successes, Failures and
Consequences of the 1837 Treaty with the Chippewa |
Durand High School |
| 1st
Honorable Mention:
Jonathan Butler |
The U.S. and Cuba: A Failure of American
Diplomacy |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
2nd
Honorable Mention:
Vanessa Gamble
|
Debate and Diplomacy: From Origin to the
End of the Space Race |
Wisconsin Virtual Academy |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Jeremy Koritzinsky
|
Golda Meir: Immigrant to Diplomat |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
4th Honorable Mention:
Nicole Galicia
|
The Kohler Strike of 1954 |
North High School, Sheboygan |
| Senior Group Websites |
National Finalists:
Shauna Brooks, Kyrie Heck
|
Brown vs. Board of Education |
Wilson Junior High School, Manitowoc |
National Finalists:
Michael Cohen, Stefan Peterson |
Terror in Munich: The 1972 Munich Olympic
Massacre |
Nicolet High School, Glendale |
1st Honorable Mention:
Kyle Ye, Yang Song
|
The Eagle and the Dragon: The Sino-German
Cooperation |
West High School, Madison |
2nd Honorable Mention:
Kouazeng Her, Voua Vang
|
Hmong and the Secret War |
Hmong American Peace Academy,
Milwaukee |
3rd Honorable Mention:
Robert Piper, Josh Zabel
|
American Prohibition: The Banning of the
Sale and Distribution of Alcohol |
Bangor High School |
4th Honorable Mention:
Ali Young, Alecia Stevenson
|
Debating Reasons for Dropping the Atomic
Bomb: Was it Dropped for Power or Peace? |
D.C. Everest Senior High School,
Schofield |
WI
Society of Mayflower Descendants Award for Early American
History |
Junior Division:
Abiel Wettstein, Holmen Middle School
|
Junior Individual Performance:
The Indian Removal: Cherokee Indians Use Diplomatic Solutions
in the Dispute Over their Land |
Junior Division:
Carson Schneider, Kohler Middle School
|
Junior Individual Exhibit: The
Stamp Act of 1765: The Price to Pay for Unity |
Robert and Carroll
Heideman Award for Outstanding Archival Research |
Junior Division:
Caroline Blair, St. Jude the Apostle School (Wauwatosa)
|
Junior Individual Documentary:
The Clock Strikes Midnight: The 1970 Strike at Allen-Bradley |
Senior Division:
Evan Walsh, Nicolet High School (Glendale)
|
Senior Individual Website: Internment
in the Dutch East Indies |
Wisconsin Council
for Local History Award |
Junior Division:
Ruby Peltonen, Shellie Newagoand Arne Martinson, Bayfield
Middle School
|
Junior Group Website: Chief Buffalo's
Diplomacy and the Debate Over Ojibwe Removal |
Senior Division:
Kanani Nunies, Kendrick Powless and Noelle Metoxen, Oneida
Nation High School
|
Senior Group Documentary: A Government
of Our Own |
John C. Geilfuss Award
for Wisconsin History |
Junior Division:
Bryce Gollata and Conor Tarnowski, Kaleidoscope Academy
(Appleton)
|
Junior Group Documentary: The
Bombing of Sterling Hall: The Blast that Ended an Era |
Senior Division:
Bryce Woldt, Josh Rynish, Reed Schneider and Calahan Skogman,
Seymour High School
|
Senior Group Performance: Wisconsin's
Capital Punishment Debate |
American Labor History
Award |
Junior Division:
Kiana Carlson Sather, South Middle School (Eau Claire)
|
Junior Individual Exhibit: Death,
Debate, and Diplomacy: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
Senior Division:
Alex Patterson, Parker High School (Janesville)
|
Senior Individual Documentary:
1936-1937 General Motors Sit-Down Strike |
American Military
History Award |
Junior Division:
Clayton Vesperman, Lancaster Middle School
|
Junior Individual Documentary:
The Battle of Peleliu |
Senior Division:
Caitlin Amick, Mount Horeb High School
|
Senior Individual Performance:
Operation TORCH |
Newspapers in Research
Award |
Junior Division:
Andrea Wright, St. James School (Madison)
|
Junior Individual Website: They're
All Gone: Munich Olympics 1972 |
Senior Division:
Kyle Ye and Yang Song, West High School (Madison)
|
Senior Group Website: The Eagle
and the Dragon: The Sino-German Cooperation |
Women in History Award |
Junior Division:
Rachel Grosskurth, D.C. Everest Junior High (Schofield)
|
Junior Individual Exhibit: Lavinia
Goodell: Questioning the Role of Wisconsin Women |
Senior Division:
Mackenzie Schmitt, North High School (Appleton)
|
Senior Individual Exhibit: WASP:
Stung by Disappointment and Forgotten by Many |
| National History Day
in Wisconsin Teacher of Merit - Junior Division |
| Tom Thorpe |
Horace Mann Middle School, Sheboygan |
| National History Day
in Wisconsin Teacher of Merit - Senior Division |
| Andrea Hasslinger |
Cochrane-Fountain City High School,
Fountain City |
| National History Day
in Wisconsin "Rookie" Teacher of the Year |
Marc Lundquist
|
South Middle School, Eau Claire |
