Junior Paper
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1014
Entry Title
Student
School
Ghetto in Greenwich: The Oppression of the LGBT
Community, and the Encounter that Changed
Everything
Charles Rubey
Euclid Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
Revolutionary Rum
Kaylan Wait
Escalante Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
Encountering the "Speckled Monster": How Smallpox
Decimated Native American Cultures
Joli Dou
Connect Charter School
Entry Title
Student
School
Dmitri Mendeleyev and the Periodic Table: Exploring
Elemental Properties
Angel Hoffman
Bear Creek High School
Entry Title
Student
School
A Scientific Metamorphosis: Encounter and Exchange
in Maria Sibylla Merian's Explorations of the Natural
World
Stephanie Reitzig
Niwot High School
Entry Title
Student
School
Bent's Fort: An Outpost for Cultural Exchange and
Exploration of the West
Emma Perkins
Fairview High School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1018
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1024
Senior Paper
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2006
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2017
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2003
Junior Individual Documentary
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1523
Entry Title
Student
School
Transplanting Life: The Story of Kidney Exchange
Lilia Scudamore
Denver School of the
Arts
Entry Title
Student
School
Encountering Racism and Exploring Voting Rights
Through the Selma to Montgomery Marches
Jenna Kristan
Connect Charter School
Entry Title
Student
School
Riveting: American Women and their Role in the
Defense Industry During World War II
Sophia Murray
Summit Middle School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1506
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1502
Senior Individual Documentary
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2510
Entry Title
Student
School
The Silk Road: Encountering the Spread of
Zoroastrianism Throughout the Eurasian World
Brooke Wunder
Bear Creek High School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Mighty Hand of Liberty: America's Imperialist
Encounter with the World
Taylor Boyer
Wiggins High School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Velvet Revolution: The Encounter of the
Totalitarian Regime and the Protesting Public
Maya Hladišová
Fairview High School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2507
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2503
Junior Group Documentary
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1603
Entry Title
Student
School
Birth Control: An Exploration of Women's Rights
Lida Everhart and
Juliana Kindell
Denver School of the
Arts
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1617
Entry Title
Student
School
Blood Stained Parchment: Letter from the Civil War
Hannah Bair and Henry
Larson
Southern Hills Middle
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Exchanging an Era: The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Kaija Koenigberg and
Emily Winn
Denver School of the
Arts
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1611
Senior Group Documentary
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2602
Entry Title
Student
School
Encountering Interventionism: America First and the
Fight to Stay Out of War
Diana Araje, Samantha
Jackson, and Anna
Rokke
Palmer Ridge High
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Breaking Down the Stonewall: An Exploration of Gay
Rights in the United States
Clare Larsen and
Elizabeth McClain
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
A Changing Nation: The American Dream of SelfImprovement
Stacy Hsu, Sam
Schrag, and Zixin
Zhang
Fairview High School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2608
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2601
Junior Individual Exhibit
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1131
Entry Title
Student
School
The "Seeing Eye": Exchanging Disabilities for a
Partnership with Independence
Sherri Wood
Connect Charter School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Black Plague: The Monumental Exchange of
Disease in Europe
Shanlla Remtulla
Denver School of the
Arts
Entry Title
Student
School
Yellowstone for All: Ferdinand Hayden 1871 Hayden
Expedition
Naomi Ammon
Winter Park Christian
School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1114
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1118
Senior Individual Exhibit
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2120
Entry Title
Student
School
Rachel Carson: Exploring the Possibility of a Silent
Spring
Monroe Roush
George Washington
High School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Novelty of Nonsense: The Whimsical Exploration
That Revolutionized Children's Literature
Avery Brogle
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Lobotomy: Walter Freeman's Exploration in
Psychosurgery
Emily Arnett
Denver School of the
Arts
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2118
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2101
Junior Group Exhibit
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1225
Entry Title
Student
School
The Agent Orange Effect
Harrison Gannon and
Meridith Gannon
Monarch K8 School
Entry Title
Student
School
Jim Henson and the Muppet Show: An Exploration of
Puppetry
Anne Hartshorn and
Ella Young
Denver School of the
Arts
Entry Title
Student
School
Exploration of Dog Training Sets Up “Seeing Eye”
Exchange
Morgan Monack, Aria
Pasquin, and Salem
Simerville
Connect Charter School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1223
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1206
Senior Group Exhibit
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2215
Entry Title
Student
School
Unraveling the DNA of History: Rosalind Franklin's
Exporation of Genetic Material
Catherine Henderson
and Eleanor Mackintosh
George Washington
Entry Title
Student
School
An "Exclusive" Encounter: The Denver Anti-Chinese
Riot and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Solomon Bloomfield,
Philip Ding, Jaden
Hoechstetter, and
Arianna
Konstantopoulos
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Atoms for Peace Program: An Exploration in
Peaceful Proliferation
Jojo Rita and Maddie
Rohner
Denver School of the
Arts
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2221
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2208
Junior Individual Performance
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1311
Entry Title
Student
School
Crosstown Traffic: Exploring Jimi Hendrix's Affect on
Music
Owen Smith
Denver School of the
Arts
Entry Title
Student
School
The Transcontinental Railroad: The Race That
Transformed America
Connor Hogan
Ricks Center for Gifted
Children
Entry Title
Student
School
Jonas Salk: Exploration and Eradication of Polio
Through a Fundraising Revolution
Isabella Gibb
Southern Hills Middle
School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1301
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1306
Senior Individual Performance
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2309
Entry Title
Student
School
The Attack on the USS Liberty: An Encounter and
Exchange of Conflict and Compensation
Dafna Margalit
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
On Track to Citizenship: The Exploration, Encounter
and Symbolic Exchange of the 1913 Rodman
Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the North
American Indian
Isabella Bowland
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
Banastre Tarleton: Encountering Adversity, Riding to
Victory
Isaac Matson
Winter Park Christian
School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2307
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2306
Junior Group Performance
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1414
Entry Title
Student
School
How Cartoons Change a Nation: WWII and Isolationism
Encountering the New Ideas of Dr. Seuss
Grant Kellond and Nick
Shehigian
Southern Hills Middle
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Christiaan Barnard’s Exploration of Heart Transplants:
Leads to Positive and Unintended Exchanges
Lauren Gallegos, Katie
Madic, and Matthew
Rivera
Connect Charter School
Entry Title
Student
School
Bent Brothers and How They Helped Shape The
Southwest
James Appel and
Christian Simon
Summit Middle School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1413
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1409
Senior Group Performance
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2410
Entry Title
Student
School
Was Oz Really That Great and Powerful?
Evan Hart, Darby
Hodge, Victoria Luke,
Lindsay Robinett, and
Emma Schwartze
Pueblo West High
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Nixon’s 1972 Visit to China: Exploring Cold War
Compromise, Encountering Normalized Relations, and
Creating a Lasting Legacy of Economic and Political
Exchange
Camryn Daidone, Brynn
Gauthier, Mia Nelson,
and Audrey Roberts
Denver School of the
Arts
Entry Title
Student
School
The Ramifications of Sexual Slavery: The Subjugated
"Comfort Women" of the Japanese Imperial Army
Elizabeth Green and
Abigail Walls
Sargent High School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2409
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2404
Junior Individual Website
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1719
Entry Title
Student
School
Meriwether Lewis - William Clark Expedition and
Discoveries
Ian King
Escalante Middle
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm: Exploring the Power of
Once Upon a Time
Alyssa Lee
Summit Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
Exploring the Works of DNA: How it Lead to the
Encounter of the Human Genome
Anudeep Golla
Southern Hills Middle
School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1728
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1702
Senior Individual Website
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2719
Entry Title
Student
School
Nellie Bly: Writing From the Heart
Calliope Cortright
Summit High School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2713
Entry Title
Student
School
The Barbary War: America's Birth As A Global Power
Ethan Rokke
Palmer Ridge High
School
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2701
Entry Title
Student
School
The End of Apartheid in South Africa: Political
Encounters and Economic Exchange That Led to the
End of a Segregated Nation
John Woodliff-Stanley
George Washington
High School
Junior Group Website
3RD PLACE
Entry #
1816
Entry Title
Student
School
Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, the Race to
the South Pole in the Eternal Silence of the Great White
Desert
Sasha Celico and
Solymar Kneale
Summit Middle Charter
School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Exploration and Adventures of John Wesley Powell
Nina Hufman and
Anaya Martinez
Dolores Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
Medieval Spain: Age of Tolerance
Jack Beardshear, Ross
Combs, Liam Leasure,
and Maximus Risher
McAuliffe International
School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
1809
1ST PLACE
Entry #
1818
Senior Group Website
3RD PLACE
Entry #
2803
Entry Title
Student
School
Glenn Curtiss: Aviation Pioneer
Vinayak Harihar and
Rahul Krishnan
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Ludlow Massacre: Twenty Dead Thousands
Outraged
Alexandra ChavezGonzales, Jessica
Granata, and Paige
Hand
Pueblo West High
School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Desegregation of Denver Public Schools: An
Exploration, Encounter, & Exchange in a Fight for
Equality
Clare Drewes, Jake
Fisher, and Cyrus Haas
George Washington
High School
2ND PLACE
Entry #
2823
1ST PLACE
Entry #
2805
REGIONAL AWARDS
Alamosa
Entry #
1404
Entry Title
Student
School
Current Wars
Daniela Luna Centeno
and Nicole Miller
Ortega Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
In a eHeartbeat: Willem Einthoven
Angela Serwaa-Marfo
North Middle School
Health Sciences and
Technology Campus
Entry Title
Student
School
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: The Secret Rebellion for
the Puebloan Freedom
Vivian Tang and Lili
Thron
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
Eradicating Polio: The Ongoing Struggle
Tess Peterson
Palmer Ridge High
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Into the Dust: Hazel Dailey Witlow's Account of the
Dust Bowl
Zelda Sidener
George Washington
High School
Entry Title
Student
School
Who Explored America First
Tyler Cutrone and
Alexander Olson
Dolores Middle School
Aurora
Entry #
1518
Boulder
Entry #
2210
Colorado Springs
Entry #
2516
Denver Public Schools
Entry #
2308
Dolores
Entry #
1226
Greater Denver Metro
Entry #
1622
Entry Title
Student
School
Exploring the Life of Alan Turing: Father of the Modern
Computer
Sophia LaPree, Britt
Nichols, and Sydney
Patterson
Rocky Heights Middle
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Margaret Mead: The Quintessential Cross-Cultural
Explorer
Tye Brown-Wolf
The Peak School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Soaring Eagle in the Land of the Rising Sun: The
United States' Encounter with Japan
Trevor Dye
Wiggins High School
Entry Title
Student
School
Protecting "La Famiglia": The Exploration and
Encounters of Italians in America
Justin Shure
Connect Charter School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Pax Mongolica
Kian Edmondson
Escalante Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
Armenian Genocide
Brianna Henderson
Ignacio Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
When There's a Will there's a Weigh: The Exploration,
Encounter and Exchange of the Modern Breakfast
Breanne Barrett
Gunnison High School
Mountain
Entry #
2013
Northeast
Entry #
2720
Southeast- Pueblo
Entry #
1718
Southwest- Durango
Entry #
1025
Tribal
Entry #
1107
Western Slope
Entry #
2310
Patricia Behring Teacher Ambassador
Sponsored by Patricia Behring
Leigh Campbell-Hale, Fairview High School
Kristen Lewis, Boulder High School
PATRICIA A. BEHRING COLORADO TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
JUNIOR
Ian Jentz, KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy
SENIOR
Casey Clay, Wiggins High School
Special Awards
Sponsored by our many wonderful cultural partners!
Norma Walker Award (Aurora History Museum)
Best Website, Documentary or Paper on Women in Government
Entry #
2609
Entry Title
Student
School
Herstory: Victoria Woodhull
Samantha TobinFreeman and Sofia
Wallisch
William J Palmer High
School
Best Project Related to Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill Grave and Museum)
Entry #
2307
Entry Title
Student
School
On Track to Citizenship: The Exploration, Encounter
and Symbolic Exchange of the 1913 Rodman
Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the North
American Indian
Isabella Bowland
Fairview High School
Best Paper on Western History (Center of the American West at CU Boulder)
JUNIOR
Entry #
1012
Entry Title
Student
School
Blending Religion and Social Change: How the
Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange of Buddhism in
Boulder Changed it Forever
Maia Parkin
Broomfield Heights
Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
Bent's Fort: An Outpost for Cultural Exchange and
Exploration of the West
Emma Perkins
Fairview High School
SENIOR
Entry #
2003
Charles Redd Award (Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University)
2nd Place: JUNIOR WINNER
Entry #
1305
Entry Title
Student
School
Mountain Men of the American West: Their Historic
Explorations
Caitlin Johnston
Connect Charter School
Entry Title
Student
School
Exchanging an Era: The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Kaija Koenigberg and
Emily Winn
Denver School of the
Arts
Entry Title
Student
School
Bent's Fort: An Outpost for Cultural Exchange and
Exploration of the West
Emma Perkins
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
Cowboys and Vaqueros: Encounter and Exchange on
the Southwest Plains
Austin Dinis, Dillon
Donaghy, Reid Ernst,
Blake Ferris, and
Tucker Teague
Wiggins High School
1st Place: JUNIOR WINNER
Entry #
1611
2nd Place: SENIOR WINNER
Entry #
2003
1st Place: SENIOR WINNER
Entry #
2822
Best Project on Geography (Colorado Geographic Alliance)
JUNIOR
Entry #
1818
Entry Title
Student
School
Medieval Spain: Age of Tolerance
Jack Beardshear, Ross
Combs, Liam Leasure,
and Maximus Risher
McAuliffe International
School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Silk Road: Encountering the Spread of
Zoroastrianism Throughout the Eurasian World
Brooke Wunder
Bear Creek High School
SENIOR
Entry #
2510
Best Project on Suffrage (Colorado League of Women Voters)
Entry #
2702
Entry Title
Student
School
The Kennedy-Nixon Debates of 1960: The First
Televised Presidential Debate
Andrea Lin
Fairview High School
Best Project on Oil and Gas Development (Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development)
Entry #
1104
Entry Title
Student
School
Oil and Gas: Hot Topic?
Hagan Archer
Odyssey School
Denver
Best Use of Primary Sources on a Colorado Topic (Colorado State Archives)
Entry #
2805
Entry Title
Student
School
The Desegregation of Denver Public Schools: An
Exploration, Encounter, & Exchange in a Fight for
Equality
Clare Drewes, Jake
Fisher, and Cyrus Haas
George Washington
High School
Best Use of Primary Sources in a Paper (CU Denver History Department)
JUNIOR WINNER
Entry #
1025
Entry Title
Student
School
The Pax Mongolica
Kian Edmondson
Escalante Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
A Scientific Metamorphosis: Encounter and Exchange
in Maria Sibylla Merian's Explorations of the Natural
World
Stephanie Reitzig
Niwot High School
SENIOR WINNER
Entry #
2017
Best Senior Paper on Colorado History (Denver Westerners Posse)
Entry #
2003
Entry Title
Student
School
Bent's Fort: An Outpost for Cultural Exchange and
Exploration of the West
Emma Perkins
Fairview High School
Best Project on Transportation History (Forney Museum of Transportation)
Entry #
1301
Entry Title
Student
School
The Transcontinental Railroad: The Race That
Transformed America
Connor Hogan
Ricks Center for Gifted
Children
Best Project Based on the American Creed (Frances Wisebart Jacobs Chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution)
JUNIOR
Entry #
1211
Entry Title
Student
School
Revolutionary Secrets
Emily Broecker and
Aimee Zinter
Sierra Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
A Picture into the Unknown: The Artistic Exploration
and Encounters of Dorothea Lange
Emma Olpinski
Pine Creek High School
SENIOR
Entry #
2301
Governor’s Colorado National History Day Hispanic Heritage Award (Governor John
Hickenlooper’s Office)
Entry #
1219
Entry Title
Student
School
El Movimiento: Equality on the Rise!
Itzel Aldrete and
Dominike Lopez
KIPP Sunshine Peak
Academy
Best Group Project on Colorado History (Governor John Hickenlooper’s Office)
JUNIOR HONORABLE MENTION
Entry #
1210
Entry Title
Student
School
Gettysburg of the West
Tyler Kenny and
Matthew McCarthy
Sierra Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
El Movimiento: Equality on the Rise!
Itzel Aldrete and
Dominike Lopez
KIPP Sunshine Peak
Academy
Entry Title
Student
School
The Desegregation of Denver Public Schools: An
Exploration, Encounter, & Exchange in a Fight for
Equality
Clare Drewes, Jake
Fisher, and Cyrus Haas
George Washington
High School
Entry Title
Student
School
An "Exclusive" Encounter: The Denver Anti-Chinese
Riot and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Solomon Bloomfield,
Philip Ding, Jaden
Hoechstetter, and
Arianna
Konstantopoulos
Fairview High School
JUNIOR WINNER
Entry #
1219
SENIOR HONORABLE MENTION
Entry #
2805
SENIOR WINNER
Entry #
2221
Best Project on Interactions at the Governor’s Residence (Governor’s Residence Preservation
Fund)
Entry #
2205
Entry Title
Student
School
Adversaries to Allies: The Effect of Japanese Language
Schools
Joshua Kim, Jesse
Schrag, and Jonathan
Wang
Fairview High School
Best Individual Project on Colorado History (History Colorado Center)
JUNIOR WINNER
Entry #
1713
Entry Title
Student
School
Florence Sabin: Advancing Colorado Health
Anuradha Prakash
Summit Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
Into the Dust: Hazel Dailey Witlow's Account of the
Dust Bowl
Zelda Sidener
George Washington
High School
SENIOR WINNER
Entry #
2308
Best Website or Documentary on Veterans or Military Service (Honor Bell Foundation)
JUNIOR WINNER
Entry #
1711
Entry Title
Student
School
The Explorations and Encounters of Grace Murray
Hopper
Kandice Chandra
Westlake Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Barbary War: America's Birth As A Global Power
Ethan Rokke
Palmer Ridge High
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Medieval Spain: Age of Tolerance
Jack Beardshear, Ross
Combs, Liam Leasure,
and Maximus Risher
McAuliffe International
School
SENIOR WINNER
Entry #
2713
Best Project on Jewish History (Mizel Institute)
Entry #
1818
Molly Brown Legacy Award (The Molly Brown House Museum)
Entry #
2719
Entry Title
Student
School
Nellie Bly: Writing From the Heart
Calliope Cortright
Summit High School
Most Creative Exhibit (The Optimist Club of Denver, Monaco South)
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL WINNER
Entry #
1129
Entry Title
Student
School
Siddharta Gautama Buddha's Journey 'from head to
heart'
Alexander Crété
Aspen Country Day
School
Entry Title
Student
School
Gettysburg of the West
Tyler Kenny and
Matthew McCarthy
Sierra Middle School
Entry Title
Student
School
The Novelty of Nonsense: The Whimsical Exploration
That Revolutionized Children's Literature
Avery Brogle
Fairview High School
Entry Title
Student
School
Hitting the Sails: Viking Exploration, Encountering
Europe
Brynn Crosby and
Shelby Emerling
Bear Creek High School
JUNIOR GROUP WINNER
Entry #
1210
SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WINNER
Entry #
2118
SENIOR GROUP WINNER
Entry #
2217
Best Colorado Themed Documentary Project (Rocky Mountain PBS, Colorado Experience)
Entry #
1519
Entry Title
Student
School
Barr Trail: The Journey to the Top
Leah Goodloe
North Middle School
Best Project Related to the San Luis Valley (Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area)
Entry #
1314
Entry Title
Student
School
Kit Carson and the Exploration of the American West
William Lipke
St. Peter's Lutheran
School
Project with the Best Use of Library of Congress Sources (Teaching with Primary Sources at
Metropolitan State University Denver)
Entry #
2013
Entry Title
Student
School
Margaret Mead: The Quintessential Cross-Cultural
Explorer
Tye Brown-Wolf
The Peak School
Best Project on Technology or Communications History (Telecommunications History Group)
Entry #
1711
Entry Title
Student
School
The Explorations and Encounters of Grace Murray
Hopper
Kandice Chandra
Westlake Middle School
Congratulations to the 2016 NHDC Graduating Seniors
Austin Dinis (Wiggins High School)
Dillon Donaghy (Wiggins High School)
Trevor Dye (Wiggins High School)
Reid Ernst (Wiggins High School)
Blake Ferris (Wiggins High School)
Cidney Fisk (Delta High School)
Cassie Franks (Olathe High School)
Natalie Hardman (Olathe High School)
Naomi Hayner (Delta High School)
Afredo Jimenez (Olathe High School)
Sara Jurca (Delta High School)
Becky Kopetzky (Wiggins High School)
Sierra Lancaster (Palmer Ridge High School)
Devon Murdock (Delta High School)
Ben Rhoton (Hinkley High School)
Sam Schrag (Fairview High School)
Maddy Shepherd (Wiggins High School)
Jordan Solseth (Olathe High School)
Bailey Starritt (Olathe High School)
Tucker Teague (Wiggins High School)