2017 Senior Winners - Senator John Heinz History Center

National History Day Regional Competition 2017
Senior Division Results
Individual Websites:
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1st
Entry Title
That's Crude: The Stand of
Edwin Drake that Changed
the World
Student (s)
Elizabeth
Breckenridge
School
Belle
Vernon
Area High
School
Teacher
Ross
Farmer
2nd
Citizens Rise: The Blairsville
Slave Rescue of 1858
Caitlynn Anderson
Belle
Vernon
Area High
School
Ross
Farmer
Entry Title
Special Operations
Executive: Heroes
Undercover
Student (s)
Victoria Zerbach
Maya Watters
Maura Hill
School
Riverview
High School
Teacher
Ken
Kubistek
American Penal Reform:
Opposing and Ameliorating
the Malpractice Known as
American Jailing
Ethan Snyder
Christoph Hudack
Luke Spinola
Riverview
High School
Ken
Kubistek
3rd
Group Websites:
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1st
2nd
3rd
National History Day Regional Competition 2017
Senior Division Results
Individual Documentaries:
Award
Entry Title
Student (s)
Standing Against the Tide:
Jacob Davis
Pontiac's Conspiracy and the
Stand Against English
Encroachment
School
Belle
Vernon
Area High
School
Teacher
Ross
Farmer
A Stand for the Soldier: Dr.
Jonathan Letterman and the
Birth of Modern Battlefield
Care
Tim Hudak
Belle
Vernon
Area High
School
Ross
Farmer
Ali Becomes the "Greatest"
by Taking a Stand
Julie McGreevy
St. Joseph
High School
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
Entry Title
Silencing Students:
Dissention, Democracy, and
Death at Tiananmen Square
Student (s)
Jack Harden
Nicholas O'Toole
Ian Burton
School
Riverview
High School
Teacher
Ken
Kubistek
2nd
No More "Steel"ing Our
Rights: The Homestead
Strike of 1892
Celaine Hornsby
Summer Girson
Megan Dell
Riverview
High School
Ken
Kubistek
3rd
In the Beat of the Moment:
Taking a Stand Against
American Conformity
Leah Grady
St. Joseph
Stephanie Edwards High School
1st
2nd
Group Documentaries:
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1st
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
National History Day Regional Competition 2017
Senior Division Results
Individual Exhibits:
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Entry Title
Eleanor Roosevelt: Standing
Up as the Conscience of
Mankind
Student (s)
Alaina Nypaver
School
Peters
Township
High School
Teacher
Josh Elders
2nd
Restoring Confidence in
Europe: America and the
Marshall Plan
Ryley Danielson
St. Joseph
High School
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
3rd
Storming of the Bastille
Beatrix Stickney
St. Joseph
High School
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
1st
Entry Title
Student (s)
How the Horrors of Hate Led Gillian Gaynor
to the Evolution of Ethics
Marina Pietz
School
Riverview
High School
Teacher
Ken
Kubistek
2nd
Wash Your Hands!
Julia Singleton
Maddy LoBianco
Joey Ciniello
Grant Bendis
St. Joseph
High School
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
3rd
"New Possibilities and the
Abigail Pierson
Courage to Advocate Them:" Frances Troiano
Jane Addams Takes a Stand Nya Johnson
for Peace
St. Joseph
High School
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
1st
Group Exhibits:
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National History Day Regional Competition 2017
Senior Division Results
Individual Performance:
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1st
2nd
3rd
Entry Title
Student (s)
Taking a Stand in the Boston Ethan Schroeder
Massacre: The Crown
against Insurgence, the
Colonists against Tyranny,
and the Courts against
Injustice
Bound to Have Blood:
Allison Wygonik
Newspapers and the Nez
Perce Wars
School
St. Joseph
High School
Teacher
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
St. Joseph
High School
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
Benjamin Davis: A Black
Pilot's Stand
Mitchell Zock
St. Joseph
High School
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
Student (s)
Scout Best
Addie Best
School
Teacher
Hidden Hills Jody Best
Homeschool
Group Performance:
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1st
2nd
3rd
Entry Title
Mr. President, We Protest!
Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and
the Struggle for Suffrage
The Lowell Mill Girls: Taking Grace Ison
a Stand Against Unjust
Leah Ford
Working Conditions and
Rachel Aber
Igniting a Revolution
Riverview
High School
Ken
Kubistek
National History Day Regional Competition 2017
Senior Division Results
Historical Papers:
Award
1st
2nd
3rd
Entry Title
Taking a Stand on One Leg:
Virginia Hall's Fight against
Intolerance, Fascism, and
Bigotry
Student (s)
Isabelle Schroeder
School
St. Joseph
High School
Teacher
Rosanne
Pucciarelli
Johnstown Flood and the
American Red Cross: Clara
Barton’s Stand in Making a
Beleaguered Town SelfSufficient
Clara Zetkin: The Road to
Gaining Rights
Aleya McMinn
Belle
Vernon
Area High
School
Ross
Farmer
Jocelyn Messia
Riverview
High School
Ken
Kubistek