History Day

Note: State History Day Results and State Special Awards are noted in bold.

Youth Individual Documentary

Peyton Washegesic, “For the Sake of the Children: The Indian Child Welfare Act” (First Place; Best Entry in Use of Oral History)

Yandre’ Badenhorst, “How the Second Boer War Changed Africa” (Third Place)

Isela Grubaugh, “Justice Gone Wrong: The Salem Witch Trials”

Youth Group Documentary

Richard Eversole, Tanner Gesiakowski, “The Tuskegee Project” (Second Place; Best Entry in African-American History)

Grayson Barnes, Andrew Karr, “Culture Forever Changed: The Lasting Impact of the Trail of Tears” (Third Place; Best Entry in Michigan History)

Callum Cameron, Connor Cameron, “Tea Time Taxing; The Taxation on the Colonists” (First Place)

Youth Individual Exhibit

Ezekiel Snead, “Love Canal: Catalyst for Environmental Rights” (Third Place)

Haylie Fritz, “Iceberg Ahead! Rights and Responsibilities Aboard the Titanic” (First Place)

Casey Duguay, “The Represented Peoples’ Rights” (Second Place)

Youth Group Exhibit

Remy Clark, Feras Elshaarawy, Connor Krueger, “The Cuban Missile Crisis: Rights, Responsibilities,            and the Fight for Peace”

Natalie Blanchet, Penny Galor, “Sting Like a WASP” (Third Place; Best Entry in Women’s History)

Ashlynn Hosier, Chloe Maly, “The Life of Helen Keller”

Youth Paper

Khruz Acosta, “World War II Tank Battalions and the Black Panthers” 

Youth Group Performance

Anna Dozeman, Ayse Lent, Madaline Trichler, “The Smith Sisters” (Best Entry in Use of Primary Sources)

Youth Individual Website

Landon Lepisto, “The ESA: The Responsibility to Protect” (Second Place)

Cici Pachota, “Maceo Snipes: Blood that Changed History” (First Place)

Youth Group Website

Duke Distenfield, Averie Zajkowski, “Alice Milliat: The Trail Blazer of the Modern Olympics”         (First Place)

Junior Individual Documentary

Min Johnson, “The Rights and Responsibilities of Milliken v. Bradley: How a Court Case Shaped the             Racial Landscape of Education” (National Finalist)

Caleb Sherburne, “Reigning from the Sky”

Junior Group Documentary

Bowie Clark, Henry Dozeman, “Gandhi and the Partition of India” 

Lennon Cole, Jemesetta Crider, Oliver Dickens, “Making an Impact Out of Sight: World War II       British SOE”

Nolan Barnes, Oliver Dickens, Silas Vanlandingham, “Play Ball! Hitting Home Runs Toward            Equality” (National Finalist)

Junior Individual Exhibit

Julieta Ortiz Hernandez, “Rachel Carson: Writing for Environmental Rights and Responsibilities”

Tallulah Paavola, “The Impact on Rights and Responsibilities of Mid-Twentieth Century       Lobotomies” (National Finalist)

Annabelle Monaghan, “Black Soldiers in the Civil War” 

Junior Group Exhibit

Lochlan Ashby-Wade, Quinn Petrasko, “How Chimney Sweeps in Victorian England Gained Their  Rights Through the Responsibility of Activists and Government”

Madelyn Hanson, Ava Scuiletti, Lily Smith, “Marie Curie: The Woman Behind the X-Ray”

Delanie Dyer, Ava Martinez, “RBG: Balancing the Scales of Justice”

Junior Paper

Bram Lee-Gardner, “The Effects of Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ on American         Rights and Responsibilities”

Annelotte Denda, “Human Rights and Responsibilities Before, During, and After Antisemitic Power            in Nazi Germany”

Bodie Bencik, “Holodomor: Death by Starvation”

Junior Individual Performance

Hayden Washegesic, “Save a Walleye, Spear and Indian” (National Finalist)

Junior Group Performance

Kate Ahrens, Grace Klein, “Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Fight for Freedom”

Amina Elshaarawy, Harper Trevino, “Iron Jawed Angels”

Kora Miller, Emma O’Neil, “Rights Burned at the Stake: The Responsibilities of Joan D’Arc”

Senior Individual Documentary

Lauryn Daugherty, “Beyond Black and White: The Colors of Love” (National Alternate)

Elyn Rhodes, “I Felt It Was My Duty: A Deep Dive into the Thomas Family and the Underground  Railroad in Kalamazoo”

Jacob Kaczmarek, “The Evolving Role of the President: Rights and Responsibilities through             History”

Senior Group Documentary

Morgan Harmon, Isabelle Martinez-Maldonado, “The Effects of the Lack of Transparency during    the Chernobyl Accident” 

Senior Individual Exhibit

Owen Burleson, “When the Law Went Dry: Uncorking a New Look into Bootlegging”

Senior Group Exhibit

Evelyn Holt-Klaver, Katelyn Rhodes, “Recy Taylor: A Miscarriage of Justice and Rape Culture in      the U.S.” (Best Entry in Use of Newspapers)

Gabriella Duron, Ellie Fenstermaker, Lydia Miner, “When You Give a Woman a Voice…”

Jordan Bishop, Nathaneal Karakula, “World War I”

Senior Individual Performance

Ruby Peterson, “All Available Boats: The Unsung Heroes of the Largest Maritime Evacuation in      History” (Best Entry in Naval or Maritime History)

Senior Individual Website

Aaron Crider, “Dirty Business: Rights and Responsibilities of Wiretapping in History”