National History Day Finalists – 2017
Category
Junior
Individual
Documentary
JUNIOR DIVISION
Winners
Project Title
Name
Finalist
James Meredith: Beating The Odds
Jericho Klein
Finalist
Finalist
Finalist
Dr. Jack Kevorkian: Taking a Stand for
Terminally Ill Patients by Participating
in Physician-Assisted Suicide
Irena Sendler: The Unsung Hero of the
Holocaust
John Muir: The Man Who Changed the
View on Nature
Alternate 1 Wiltold Pilecki… A Stance Inside
Alternate 2 Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?
Finalist
Junior
Group
Documentary
Finalist
Finalist
Finalist
John Muir's Fight up The Endless
Mountain
Mildred Fish Harnack and the Red
Orchestra
Virginia Hall: The Women Who
Inspired the Physically Disabled to Not
Limit Themselves
Mildred Fish-Harnack
Alternate 1 Edward Snowden
Finalist
Junior
Individual
Exhibit
Finalist
Passports to Freedom: The Mission of
Raoul Wallenberg
Here I Stand (Martin Luther)
Finalist
Taking a Stand To Teach All ... One
Student at a Time
Finalist
Deborah Sampson
School
Bay View Middle
School (Howard Suamico)
Grace Peterson
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Madeline Martin
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Emily Johnson
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Bay View Middle
School (Howard Suamico)
John Belton
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Callan Lapinskas,
Bay View Middle
Calvin Muraski
School (Howard Suamico)
Sophia Schumerth, Ella JR Gerritts Middle
Buddenhagen
School (Kimberly)
Aramie Theiss, Hannah D.C. Everest
Mullins
Junior High
School
Olivia Seidl, Abby
Freedom Middle
Retzlaff, Ainsley
School
Baumgart
Alexander Scheibe,
St. Peter Lutheran
Jonathan Ewart,
School (Appleton)
Jackson Fleming, Zeke
Punzel
Callie Jagler
Bay View Middle
School (Howard Suamico)
Sydney Millar
JR Gerritts Middle
School (Kimberly)
Josie Flisakowski
Bay View Middle
School (Howard Suamico)
Reid Westphal
Freedom Middle
School
Category
Project Title
Name
Alternate 1 Declaration of Independence
Ashley Vondrachek
Junior
Individual
Exhibit
Alternate 2 Prudence Crandall: Taking a Stand
Ellie Vincent
Towards Equality Through the "Young
Ladies and Little Misses of Color"
Academy
Alternate 3 Frank Lloyd Wright: Taking a Stand in Jackson Boersma
Architecture
Junior
Group
Exhibit
School
Freedom Middle
School
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
Kathrine Switzer: Taking a Stand to
Run
Katherine Kitslaar,
Paige Boehm
Finalist
WASPs: Standing to Fly
Emma Dreier, Greta
Marquardt
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
Little Rock Nine
Haylie Weyenberg,
Gabby Johnson
Freedom Middle
School
Finalist
Curt Flood
Conor Dickrell, Jon
Verhasselt
Freedom Middle
School
Alternate 1 Serving Up Equality At Woolworth
Maddy Gobat, Jackson Bay View Middle
Herson
School (HowardSuamico)
Alternate 2 Oppenheimer's Stand
Anthony Treu, Cole
Hansen
Alternate 3 Coco Chanel's New Closet
Olivia Rosera, Liz Ely, Bay View Middle
Alicia LaCrosse,
School (HowardCassandra Kriescher
Suamico)
JR Gerritts Middle
School (Kimberly)
Category
Winners
Project Title
Finalist
A Woman's Stance: "Carry"ing the
Junior
Nation Into Prohibition
Individual
Performance
Name
Myriah Hodgson
School
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
Lucy Parsons: The Fight for the 8 Hour Danni Langseth
Work Day
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Finalist
Irena Sendler: Standing for the Children Alex Yedica
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
Nellie Bly: A Journalist's Stand for the
Truth
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Alternate 1 Ending A Revolution: The Battle Of
Yorktown
Finalist
Junior
Group
Performance
Rosie the Riveter
Madalyn Paulsen
Faith Patenaude
Bayshore
Community
Academy (Oconto
Kennedy Christianson, D.C. Everest
Claire Marquardt,
Junior High
Grace Woodward
School
Finalist
Standing up for Science - the Scopes
Trial
Brennen Haynes, Ethan JR Gerritts Middle
Sommer
School (Kimberly)
Finalist
Secret Savior: The Story of Irena
Sendler
Emilly Rasmussen,
Bay View Middle
Andrew Hodgson, Ava School (HowardHeyman
Suamico)
Finalist
Betty Friedan
Brooklyn Rasmussen,
Sophia Szymanski,
Juliana Sieber
Alternate 1 Marsha Johnson and the Stonewall Riots Regan Kettner, Emma
Footit
Bayshore
Community
Academy (Oconto)
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Alternate 2 Theodora Winton Youmans and Carrie Phaelan Shultz, Jenessa
Chapman Catt and the Fight for
Schneider, Josie Sieber,
Women’s Rights
Lauren Murphy,
Kalista Susa
Alternate 3 Wood Guthrie
Rachel Antonson,
Mckenna Green
Bayshore
Community
Academy (Oconto)
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Category
Winners
Project Title
Finalist
The Stonewall Riot
Junior
Individual
Website
School
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Bayshore
Community
Academy (Oconto)
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Finalist
Japanese American Draft Resistance:
Refusing to Fight Without Rights
Cole Pierucki
Finalist
Gilbert Baker: Taking a Stand By
Raising a Flag
Kate Magnuson
Finalist
The Stonewall Riots
David Decker
Alternate 1 Nelson Mandela
Alternate 2 Branch Rickey
Junior
Group
Website
Name
Alison Hill
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Sahra Ahmed
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Brady Marten
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Elizabeth Ritger,
JR Gerritts Middle
Rebecca Schank, Sofie School (Kimberly)
Langenhuizen, Vienna
Melzl
Finalist
Nellie Bly: Female Stunt Reporter
Finalist
D-Day Operations Utah and Omaha
Benjamin Halabeck,
Aidan Earll
Finalist
Sophie Scholl and The White Rose
Grace Holmgren,
Bayshore
Eleanor Finger, Carson Community
Kramer
Academy (Oconto)
Finalist
William Lloyd Garrison: Reporting to
Abolish Slavery
Isabelle Tiegs, Hailie
McDonell
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Bayshore
Community
Academy (Oconto)
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Alternate 1 Alexander Hamilton & The Federalist
Papers
Alaina Farr, Claire
Pritzl
Alternate 2 1968 Summer Olympic Protest
Evan Friendshuh, Sam Bay View Middle
Breider, Matthew
School (HowardDeNamur
Suamico)
Alternate 3 The All American Girls Professional
Baseball League
Junior Paper Finalist
McKenna Hammond,
Cassidy Eckes
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: Taking a Olivia Dsouza
Stand to Transform Indian Society
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
The Emancipation Proclamation: The
First Stand To Slavery
Kaitlyn Fischer
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
The 1968 Olympic Protest
Keegan Bohlman
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Finalist
The Boston Tea Party: Taking a Stand
for Our Independence
Ellie Klumb
Bay View Middle
School (HowardSuamico)
Alternate 1 The Lahore Resolution And the Muslim Ashton Thiele
Protests For the Divide Of India to
Create a Homeland: Splitting the Map
Bayshore
Community
Academy (Oconto)
Alternate 2 Arnold Douwes and the Dutch
Aidan Appel
Resistance: The Stand Against the Nazis
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Alternate 3 Ida B. Wells: The Woman Who
Sydney Kurszewski
Revolutionized the Journalism World by
Taking a Stand Against Lynching
D.C. Everest
Junior High
School
Category
Winners
Finalist
Senior
Individual
Documentary
SENIOR DIVISION
Project Title
Name
The Ainu: Rekindling the
Yefang Lee
Culture in Which Was Lost
School
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Title IX: Equalizing Education Maggie Plouff
for Everyone
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Sarah Tanck
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
Temple Grandin
Taylor Biese
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Alternate 1
Greensboro Four
Sophia Sorenson
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Alternate 2
Benazir Bhutto a Tumultuous
Life
Gracie Sessler
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Alternate 3
Mao Zedong: Chairman of the Michael Knoll
Masses
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
A Leader Left Unrecognized:
The Life And Legacy Of
Bayard Rustin
Claire Gelhaus, Jade
Reigel
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Aldo Leopold
Jonathan Tesch, Jacob
Halfman
Seymour
Community High
School
Finalist
Indira Gandhi: Born a Leader
Savannah Boden,
Madeline Krolow
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Toussaint Louverture: The
Isabelle Hoida, Erin
"Black Napoleon" of the West Phelps, Lexie Petitjean,
Indies
Natalia Kedzierski
Senior Group Finalist
Documentary
Southwest High
School (Green
Bay)
Senior
Individual
Exhibit
Alternate 1
The Lionheart of Stalingrad
Alternate 2
Jane Goodall Takes a Stand
Finalist
Gandhi's Salt March
Erin Liang
Finalist
Mary E Walker: Breaking
Stereotypes
Keta Oettinger
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Golda Meir
Natalie Levy
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Valdimir Lenin
Eli Alsteen
The White Rose Movement:
Students Against Tyranny
Gabby Anderson,
Malorie Schmoll
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Ruby Bridges
Maya Jacques, Abbey
Ambrosius, Izzy
Huempfner, Jenna
Jacques
Finalist
Ending the European Witch
Hunts
Sam Birkett, Nicole
Petrouske
Finalist
Actual Reality: Act Up & the
Fight Against AIDS
John Dewey
Academy of
Learning (Green
Bay)
Maria Wood, Alexander Clintonville High
Huber
School
Alternate 1
Montgomery Bus Boycott,
1955
Bailee Fox, Kayley
Egger
Alternate 2
Sherman Booth and the Pain of Sierra Nessinger,
Algoma High
Slavery
Makayla Guilette, Bailey School
Bomber
Senior Group Finalist
Exhibit
Sebastian Schmiling,
Abigail Robinson
Daniel Rusch, Kelly
Dolgner
Algoma High
School
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Southwest High
School (Green
Bay)
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Seymour
Community High
School
Category
Senior
Individual
Website
Winners
Finalist
Project Title
Name
John Walsh: Father of a
Ashley McRann
Murdered Child: on 'The Hunt'
for Fugitives
School
Clintonville High
School
Finalist
Alexander Hamilton: Defender Graci Schomaker
of the United States
Constitution
Freedom High
School
Finalist
Riot Grrrl Revolution: Taking a Sarah Giordano
Stand for Third Wave
Feminism
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Rising Up: Angela Davis
Alternate 1
Deng Xiaoping: The Little Man Emma Van Ermen
That Took a Stand for Modern
China
Bay Port High
School
(Howard/Suamico)
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Alternate 2
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Alternate 3
The Stonewall Riots: Standing Allison Heckert
Up for Standing Out
Senior Group Finalist
Website
Finalist
Christina Yang
Caitlin Barkow
Southwest High
School (Green
Bay)
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Betty Friedan: In the Fight for Brooke Lotto, Abigail
Bay Port High
Women's Rights
Parsons, Rachel Hoffman School
(Howard/Suamico)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Caitlin Piotrowski,
Southwest High
Fire
Isabella McNaughton,
School (Green
Alexia Siegle, Jenna
Bay)
Tackmier
Finalist
Megan Halambeck and
Nixon's War on Drugs: Taking Horeb Mahmood
a Stand in History
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
John Muir: Taking a Stand
Ingrid Hansen, Regan
Allen, Rachel Cutlan
Southwest High
School (Green
Bay)
Alternate 1
Silent Spring's Silent
Beginning
Tili Moua, Marialuisa
Hernandez
Southwest High
School (Green
Bay)
Senior Paper
Senior
Individual
Performance
Senior Group
Performance
Alternate 2
The Holocaust and Nuremberg Tommy Alston , Olivia
Trials Affects on the Modern Fernstaedt
World Today
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Joseph Stalin: Creating a
Superpower
Emily Huffcutt
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Governor Orval Faubus:
Mason Messner
Taking a Stand for Segregation
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Joseph Stalin- Taking a Stand
Through Genocide
Ben Peloquin
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Finalist
Chiune Sugihara: A Real Life
Hero
Victoria Harvel
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Alternate 1
Martin Luther King Jr:
Karigann Wood
Leadership for All Generations
Bay Port High
School (HowardSuamico)
Finalist
We're Not Gonna Take It: Dee Grace Toebe
Snyder vs. the PMRC
Algoma High
School
Finalist
The Juvenile Justice System:
An Unjust Cycle in History
D.C. Everest
Senior High
School
Haley Cveykus, Jordan
Sazama, Felysity Cha,
Alex Radke
BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARDS
Division
Category
Project Title
Junior
Individual
Exhibit
Senior
Senior Group Aldo Leopold: Redefining
Documentary Mans’ Relationship with the
Land
Student Name
Frank Lloyd Wright: Taking a Jackson Boersma
Stand in Architecture
Jacob Halfman and
Jonathan Tesch
School
D.C Everest Junior
High
Seymour
Community High
School