Junior Individual Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Cook County Middle School
Alfred Nobel: A Spark of Inspiration
Leif Anderson
Wayzata West Middle School
Harry Truman and the Bombing of the Century
Luke Van Horn
Holy Rosary School
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Theological Resistance Against the
Matthew Scribner
Honorable Mention
Nazis
Buffalo Middle School
The Legacy of the Five-Dollar Day: Ford's Leadership in the
Luke McGorry
Rise of the Middle Class
Oak Grove Middle School
Alice Paul
Maia Erbes
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Rachel Carson: Her Quest to Expose the Harm of DDT
Carmen Crutchfield
St. Thomas Academy
From Glider to Flyer: The 12 Seconds that Changed the
Dylan Etzwiler
World
North Branch Middle School
Theodore Roosevelt the Conservationist
Rebecca Perales
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Building of His Legacy
Sawyer Johnson
Olson Middle School-
Nikola Tesla: Electrifying His Time
Zachary Boldenow
Salk Middle School
Michael Jackson - King of Pop
Ryan Benson
Ramsey Middle School -
The Legacy of Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Lucia Telleria
Bloomington
Minneapolis
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Individual Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Winona Middle School
Vote for Eleanor: a Proven Leader
Marissa Lindaman
Sunrise Park Middle School
Daisy Bates
Samantha Larson
Sunrise Park Middle School
Charles Everett Koop
Thomas Comstock
Cyber Village Academy
Gene Roddenberry - Becoming the Leader of Science Fiction
Mackenna Kaufer
and Leaving a Legacy for the Final Frontier
Cyber Village Academy
Seward and the Alaska Purchase
Niko Scholtz
Maternity of Mary-St. Andrew
Leadership and Legacy of Dorothy Day: Reaching Out to the
JunFen Freihammer
Marginalized
Chatfield Public Schools
Billie Jean King
Mollie Henry
Anwatin Middle School
The Fight for the Amazons
Juan Pablo Guillen
Keewaydin Cmty. School
Cesar Chavez: Activist Leader Who Fought For Equality for
Kary Ventura
Farm Workers in the United States
Wayzata West Middle School
Jesse Owens Leadership toward Equality: Break the Color
Ian Taraszewski
Barrier at the Olympics
Carondelet Catholic School
Zapped: Nikola Tesla: Leadership in AC Currents
Owen Cody
Carondelet Catholic School
Marie Curie: An Exemplary Physicist and Ambassador for
Eleanor Dolan
Science
Highland Park Middle School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway
Annika Mechelke
Junior Individual Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Ramsey Middle School - St. Paul
The Legacy of Trail Blazer Nellie Bly
Annika Dunkel
Seward Montessori School
"Mr. Environment"
Sophie Hansen
Susan B. Anthony Middle School
Amelia Earhart: Led the Way for Modern Women's
Mia Ruchie
Professions
Lighthouse
Saladdin- Liberating Jerusalem on the Best Arabian Night
Sana Wazwaz
St. Mark’s School
James Bevel: Leader of the 1963 Children's March
Isabel Basurto Poferl
Lake Harriet Community School
Joan Ganz Cooney: A Leader in Educational Television
Ellie Smith
Sunrise Park Middle School
Theodore Roosevelt and Foreign Policy Leadership in Latin
James Williams
1st
America
2nd
Seward Montessori School
Lois Gibbs: Leader at Love Canal
Sophia Manolis
Murray Middle School
Thrust the Warlords Back... Torpedo Squadron Eight at
Jillian Brenner
3rd
Midway
4th
Ramsey Middle School Minneapolis
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Jonas Salk, Creator of the Polio Vaccine
Elle Miller
Junior Individual Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Lake Harriet Community School
Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Interstate Highway System
Trey Gustafson
5th
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Group Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Susan B. Anthony Leading Us to the Vote
Mackenzie Allen, Janey Sowada, Kate
Honorable Mention
Wayzata West Middle School
Ainsworth
Chaska Middle School East
Princess Diana: A Royal Leader
Jenna Barsness, Brooke Kriesel
Open World Learning
Leonard Peltier
Noah Miller, Tony Rivera
Delano Middle School
Henry Ford: His Effect on the World
Ben Bersie, Brett Bolzer
Hawley Elementary School
Apollo II
Evan Myran, Matthew Nelson
Ordean East Middle School
Marie Curie
Sydney Olson, Katrina Lindgren,
Community
Emma Johnson
Olson Middle School-
Immigration, Assimilation and the Inception of Social Work:
Bloomington
Jane Addams and the Hull House
Lewiston Altura Interm. School
Bob Kierlin: The Creation of Fastenal
Elyse Cooke, Adaire Criner
Sam Bronk, Garrett Meisch, Gable
Speltz
Stewartville Middle School
Nikola Tesla: Electrifying the World with a New Current
Meghan Kosmala, Makayla Kennedy
System
Stewartville Middle School
Walt Disney: "If you can dream it, you can do it."
Olivia Otto, Emilee Otto, Nick Otto
Ramsey Middle School -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Hailey LaSalle, Anna Melnyk
Minneapolis
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Group Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Lake Harriet Community School
Ida B Wells: Fighting Injustice
Emma Miller, Olivia Waguespack
Pioneer Ridge Middle School
Helen Keller: Educating the Blind
Shannon Blake, Angela Rose
Lake Harriet Community School
Chasing the Clouds Away: Joan Ganz Cooney and the Making Katie Hurcomb, Maddy Gagliardiof Sesame Street
Grabau
Holy Rosary School
Alice Paul: Women's Rights Leader
Angelina Dodge, Kaitlyn Perlinger
Sunrise Park Middle School
Walt Disney
Andrew Kolb, Logan Tanttu, Paige
Tanttu
Kennedy Secondary School
Swinging the Bat to Knock Out Segregation
Amelia Buckmeier, Alexis Ouren
Salk Middle School
Irena Sendler: Behind the Walls
Katherine Buhl, Annica Carr
Salk Middle School
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
Samantha Ballenger, Victoria
Schwieters
Maternity of Mary-St. Andrew
The Return of Steve Jobs: His Leadership and Legacy
Mae Hyser, Libby Korby
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Becoming Fuhrer: Hitler's Rise to Power
Lucia Richardson, Aurora Hinze
Anwatin Middle School
Hernan Cortes: A Legacy of Conquest
Mateo Peralta, Bryan Arroyo
Keewaydin Cmty. School
Margaret Bourke-White: Leading Photography to War
Jordan McCabe, Molly Rose
Wayzata West Middle School
Little Rock Nine, Integration of Central High
Anna St. Martin, Grace Kerbeshian,
Abby Prodahl
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Group Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Central Middle School (WBL)
Henry Ford's Assembly Line: Changing the World
Ethan Andrekus, Kirby Masso
Fisher Public School
Impossible to Remain Silent: The Legacy of Duluth Lynching
Jenna Vasek, Ellie Schmitz, Brenna
Radi, Jory Vasek, Ella Reitmeier
Susan B. Anthony Middle School
A Leader for Rights: Fannie Lou Hamer
Elsa Palmieri, Ella Duepner, Ainsley
Watson
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Joseph Kony: Child Soldiers and the LRA
Elizabeth Zelles, Samantha Daddi
Sunrise Park Middle School
Eleanor Roosevelt & the Universal Declaration of Human
Megan Sulej, Allison Zarling
1st
Rights
2nd
Keewaydin Cmty. School
Leading in Medical Education: The Legacy of the Mayo Model
Kathleen Grube, Emma Crosby,
Megan Sumera
3rd
Calvin Christian School - Blaine
James J. Hill: All Aboard! As the Empire Builder Opens the
Jack Zaic, Mitchell Zaic
Northwest!
4th
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Pierre Coubertin and the Revival of the Olympic Games
Elise Trail-Johnson, Isabella Gorg
Sunrise Park Middle School
Dorothea Dix
Carly Evgen, Samantha Weidner
5th
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Individual Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Minnewaska Area High School
Reverand L. D. Kramer: Trailblazer in Elderly Care
Julia Hoffmann
Jackson County Central High
“Soldiers Never Die”: Leading in Honor … A Legacy of
Katelynn Dorschner
School
Memory
Chanhassen High School
Oscar Romero, Voice of the Voiceless
Katherine Frye
Marshall School (High School) -
John Marshall and Marbury v. Madison
Brent Larson
Madiba
Ben Earl-Moseley
Highland Park Senior High
Hatred Ingrained: Nazism's Legacy of Homophobic
Elsa Cournoyer
School
Leadership, Yesterday and Today
Highland Park Senior High
The Baltic Legacy: Surviving Stalin's Oppression
Elaea Purmalietis
Chatfield Public Schools
What America Craves
Ashley Hanson
Red Lake High School
Roger Jourdain
Violet May
North Lakes Academy
Jacob Riis
Emma Sosa
DeLaSalle High School
Rosalind Franklin: Challenging the Structure of Life
Julian Spencer
Honorable Mention
Duluth
Highland Park Senior High
School
School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Individual Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Marshall School (High School) -
Christian Barnard: The First Man to Replace a Broken Heart
Annika Hall
Bagley Jr. Sr. High School
National Geographic
Emily Hanson
Rogers High School
"An Eye for an Eye" The Leadership and Legacy of
Maxwell Brown
Duluth
1st
Hammurabi
2nd
Mayo High School
Soaring to Success: Innovations from Mayo Clinic Aero
Emily Nichols
Medical Unit
3rd
Chatfield Public Schools
Oren Gregg
Abby Hopp
Washington Secondary Complex
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Leading an Environmental
Sabrina Vang
4th
Movement
5th
Southwest Junior High School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
The Sister Kenny Legacy
Lily Pope
Senior Group Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Mankato West High School
Francis Galton: A Journey Through Eugenics
Alyssa Pham, Javeriah Chughtai
Mankato West High School
William Wilberforce and the Abolition: A Reformation to
Laura Hankins, Gabrielle Bowyer
Honorable Mention
Transform the World
Zimmerman Middle/High School
Catherine the Great
Jordynn Hargrove, Emily Ehrich
Menahga Public
John Deere
Laura Shepersky, Logan Schoon
North Community High School
Thurgood Marshall
Lequient Travis, Ke'von Mathis
Cretin-Derham Hall High School
Walter Mondale: Vice President
Hailey Ryan, Hannah Calton
Washington Secondary Complex
The Battle at Dien Bien Phu: Ho Chi Minh and the French
Vicky Yang, Krystal Duong
Defeat
Washington Secondary Complex
Crazy Horse: Leadership & Legacy of an Oglala Warrior
Pa Houa Her, Gaogee Yang
Harding High School
Saw Ba Oo Gyi and the Karen Civil War in Burman 1949
Lay Bay Paw, Kiki Paw, Gken Nay
-2015
Mao
Becker High School
The March on Washington: Martin Luther King Jr.
Alora Nelson, Vanessa Gilles
DeLaSalle High School
Paul 'Bear' Bryant
Matthew Mullin, Nick Weber, Sam
Hoyt, Michael Wageman, Sol Probosz
St. Louis Park High School
Curb Your (Pan-Arab) Enthusiasm
David Hope, Owen Shoger, Aaron
Goodman
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Group Exhibit
School
Title
Student(s)
Foley High School
Elizabeth Blackwell: Changing the Face of Medicine
Emily Cash, Taylor Mondloch
Marshall School (High School) -
Charles de Gaulle: Leadership and Legacy in Foreign Policy
Andrew Kneepkens, Erik Shirley
The Rainbow Family
Sarah Kleinschmidt, Rachel Brown,
1st
Duluth
2nd
DeLaSalle High School
Julia Conway
3rd
Highland Park Senior High
Gandhi: the Salt March
School
Jasmine Wurl, Christina Vang,
Neesha Moore
4th
Highland Park Senior High
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"
Alice Andrastek, Grace Aerts
Chuck McDew and SNCC
Mahommed Moses, Deaira Gresham
School
5th
Cretin-Derham Hall High School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Individual Performance
School
Title
Student(s)
Marian Anderson and the Freedom Concert: Challenging
Emily Mulhern
Honorable Mention
Seward Montessori School
Bigotry with Genius and Dignity
Buffalo Middle School
Letters of a Spanish Leader: How Hernan Cortez Made a
Patrick Stonecipher
Legacy and Conquered the New World
Open World Learning
Sal Castro: Leading Students Out of School and into a Better
Community
Education
St. John’s Preparatory School
Ministry in the North: A Benedictine Legacy on the Red Lake
Sam Kellar-Long
Adrienne Gefre
Reservation
Oak Grove Middle School
Dr. C. Walton Lillehei: The Father of Open Heart Surgery
Siobhan Dietz
Salk Middle School
Vladimir Lenin and the Rise of Russian Communism
Camryn Heinen
Oak Grove Middle School
Rachel Carson: The Mother of the Modern Environmental
Ruth Claycomb
Movement
Holy Rosary School
Mary Kay Ash: The Woman Who Can
Jenna Meyer
Salk Middle School
First President and Revolutionary Leader Emilio Aguinaldo
Ethan Del Sol
and the Philippine-American War
Central Middle School (WBL)
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Abby Kelley Foster
Julia Thomalla
Junior Individual Performance
School
Title
Student(s)
Caritas Academy (Homeschool)
Sister Kenny: The Australian Bush Nurse Who Challenged
Monica Clarke
1st
the Doctors
2nd
Lake Harriet Community School
Leadership and Legacy in Social Reform: Dorothea Dix and
Rachel Springer
the Massachusetts Memorial
3rd
Highland Park Middle School
Sister Elizabeth Kenny: A Lion for a Day That Lasted a
Tess Albert-Staunning
Lifetime
4th
Sunrise Park Middle School
Nicholas Steno
Mariana Dopkins
Central Middle School (WBL)
Susan B. Anthony: The Legacy of One Vote
Chloe Schwieger
5th
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Group Performance
School
Title
Student(s)
Murray Middle School
Sister Kenny
Fiona Blank, Anna Gaudio
Winterquist Elementary
Shinichi Suzuki
Lilly Mae Rud, Maiya Klaphake
Calvin Christian School - Blaine
Nellie Griswald Francis: Crusader for Anti-Lynching
George Wust, Caleb Modder
Hawley Elementary School
Maud Hart Lovelace: A Leader in Children's Literature
Maddy Mumm, Maya Kruger, Jayden
Honorable Mention
Schenck
Ordean East Middle School
A Legacy in the Sky: Jacqueline Cochran and Nancy Love
Jacqueline Black, Abbigail Hagen,
Grace Hollander
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Franklin And Eleanor Roosevelt: President and First Lady of
Lydia Rosenberg, Soren Eversoll
the World
Stewartville Middle School
People Change
Kendall Clausen, Mckenna Pickett
St. Thomas More
Tea With Three Suffragettes
Catherine McCafferty, Ella Dickinson,
Frannie Miller
Kenwood Trail Middle School
Defying the Father of Lies: Sophie Scholl and the Leaflets of
Amy Mason, Danielle Wilcox
Resistance
Salk Middle School
Oskar Schindler and His Leadership During the Holocaust
Hanna Dorff, Kelsey King, Alaina
Rossum, Sophie Leither
Chaska Middle School West
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
It Worked: Oppenheimer, Fern, Szilard and the Manhattan
Brian Pitz, Nate Nicholson, Carson
Project
Funk
Junior Group Performance
School
Title
Student(s)
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Safe from Harm: The First Domestic Abuse Shelter in
Claire Weissman, Rosalie Kurtz,
America
Caroline Schuster, Emily Cerkvenik
Fridley Middle School
Father of Anne: Changing the Holocaust Forever
Carter Rettke, Harrison Blum
Lakes International Language
Redefining Medicine: The Legacy of the Mayo Brothers
Aria Norcross, Strom Norcross
Leading Thousands to Walk: Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the
Isabelle Carlson, Cosette Isakson,
Legacy of Her Radical Movement Therapy
Preston Alleman
Clair Patterson's Crusade
Ryan Pedersen, Collin Sibik, Paul
1st
Academy
2nd
CHOF School
3rd
Central Middle School (WBL)
Moris, Isaac Maruyama
4th
Open World Learning
Clair C. Patterson: The Geochemist that Lead the Movement
Community
Against Tetraethyl Lead
Little Cobb Academy
Robert E. Lee: the Leadership and Education Legacy of a
Quinn Christensen, Logan Doran
5th
Losing Confederate General
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Aidan Oldenburg, David Clobes
Senior Individual Performance
School
Title
Student(s)
Honorable Mention
Marshall School (High School) -
Col. Gustaf Mannerheim: A Legacy of Military Leadership and Andrew Jarocki
Duluth
Political Diplomacy
CHOF School
J.R.R. Tolkien: Leading the World of Literature Through the
Daniel Schutz
Legacy of Middle-Earth
South High School
Woody Guthrie: Leading Through Music, Leaving a Legacy
Zachary Anderson
Fisher Public School
Hidden Leadership
Ashley Helgeson
Northland Jr./Sr. High School
Catherine the Great: The Enlightened Despot
Hannah Myers
DeLaSalle High School
Alan Lomax
Annie Dubner
North Community High School
Leadership and Legacy of the Morrill Hall Takeover
Faith Barron
North Lakes Academy
Shooting for Equality: Annie Oakley
Hayley "Mae" Welsch
Schaeffer Academy
"See America First:" The Leadership and Legacy of Stephen
Emily Harris
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Mather
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Group Performance
School
Title
Student(s)
John Ford: Not the Guy Who Made Cars
Abigail Hofer, Abby Wilson, Kate
Honorable Mention
Schaeffer Academy
Beech
1st
CHOF School
The CCC Helps Led the Way to Economic Recovery: The
Jacob Bluhm, Thomas Bluhm, Dillon
Legacy of Roosevelt's Tree army
Alleman, Lily Palenschat, Lauren
Strandlund
2nd
Homeschool-John Paul II
Canopy of Hope: Leadership & Legacy of Wangari Maathai
Angelica Nelson, Sara Schluender
CHOF School
Wilson's and Smith's Alcoholics Anonymous: Leading
Kiana Alleman, Summer Eckman,
Millions to a Legacy of Hope
Tim Rohlf, Shayne Okerstrom,
3rd
Hunter Johnston
4th
Duluth East
The Legacy of Reform After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Flannery Glisczinski, Elle Christian,
Fire
John Kroska
Jackson County Central High
"An Element for all People:" Marie Curie's Leadership and
Tara Porter, Emily Stubbe, Kristin
School
Legacy
Stoltenberg
5th
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Paper
School
Title
Student(s)
Chaska Middle School West
Sandra Day O'Connor: Voting Constitution over Conscience
Laure Briol
Salk Middle School
Leading a Nation: President Jimmy Carter and the Iran
Courtney Bissen
Honorable Mention
Hostage Crisis
Kenwood Trail Middle School
Thirteen Days on the Edge of Annihilation: President
Jennifer Bass
Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Highland Park Middle School
The Stone Wall Riots: From a Bar Raid Comes a Gay Rights
Frances Atmore
Movement
Sunrise Park Middle School
Eleanor Roosevelt: Leadership and Legacy with the Universal
Elaine Franta
Declaration of Human Rights
Barton Open School
Theodore Wirth: Bold Leadership and His Enduring Legacy in
Nathaniel Mersy
the Minneapolis Park System
St. Mark’s School
Shaping the Pathways for Women: Sarojini Naidu and her
Annine Cunningham
Successful Mission to Integrate Females in Politics
1st
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Declaring War on the Tobacco Industry: Leadership and
Carly St. Martin-Norburg
Legacy of State of Minnesota v. Philip Morris
2nd
Salk Middle School
The Legacy of Lois Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co.: Changing
The Definition of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Isabella Krueger
Junior Paper
School
Title
Student(s)
Lake Harriet Community School
Ida B. Wells: The Voice of the Hanging Tree
Sonia Carroll
Kenwood Trail Middle School
Uncovering Mysteries of the Deep: Marie Tharp and her
Annika Hurd
3rd
4th
Remarkable Discovery
5th
Chaska Middle School East
Giving Vaccination a Shot: Edward Jenner, the Cowpox
Inoculation, and the Eradication of Smallpox Worldwide
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Elaine Li
Junior Group Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
Chaska Middle School East
Sir Nicholas Winton: Children's Passage to Freedom
Sydney Wisdorf, Rachel Peterson
Chaska Middle School East
Don't Iron While the Strike is Hot: Betty Friedan and the
Anna Monarski, Taylor Marske
Honorable Mention
Women's Strike for Equality
Holy Rosary School
Dorothea Dix and the Asylum Reform Movement
Michelle Kriske, Mikala Pfahl
Calvin Christian School - Blaine
Monuments Fine Arts and Archives: Commanders of Battle
Emily Moin, Cassandra Jarmuzek
for the Retrieval of Stolen Culture
Open World Learning
Ann Bancroft: Her Trip to the Two Poles and How She
Helena Squires Mosher, Lily
Community
Inspired Others
Hennessee
Open World Learning
The Leadership of Joseph Stalin and the Gulag Camps
Fiona Shyne, Seda Farnham
Peter Ueberroth & The Legacy of the 1984 Olympic Games
Laura Weil, Emma Haugstad
Pioneer Ridge Middle School
Nikola Tesla: The Inventor Who Powered the World
Tanner Brady, Luke Ferderer
Holy Rosary School
Percy Julian and his Synthesis of Cortisone
Anna Chelseth, Elizabeth Jarocki
Keewaydin Cmty. School
The Decline of the Negro Leagues: Jackie Robinson's Legacy
Aaron Phillips, Adonis Blatcher, TJ
on Baseball
Martin
Community
Ramsey Middle School Minneapolis
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Group Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
Nellie Stone Johnson Community
Mexican Revolution
Gisell Ayala Corral, Nayeli Hernandez
School
Limas, Alicia Ciriaco Cruz, Jennifer
Moreno Vizcarra
Highland Park Middle School
Photo 51: A Legacy in Question
Oliver Paleen, Zack Glaser
Highland Park Middle School
A Great City Does Not Build Itself
Lily Osmond, Anna Schmidt
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Eunice Kennedy Shriver: Establishing Societal Acceptance of
Hanna Saveraid, Marybelle Kim
1st
the Mentally Handicapped through the Special Olympics
2nd
Sunrise Park Middle School
Lewis Hine
Eliza Angellis, Lydia Jungmann
Buffalo Middle School
Branch Rickey's Home Run for Humanity
Logan Miller, Zach Barden
Ramsey Middle School -
Jim Henson: Paving the Way to Children's Television
Cole McQuinn, Rory Kliewer
Madame C.J. Walker: Self-Made Millionaire
Sherecca Williams, Nashea Yang,
3rd
4th
Minneapolis
5th
Nellie Stone Johnson Community
School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Christell Mitchell
Junior Group Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
Minnewaska Area High School
http://60918758.nhd.weebly.com/ General George S. Patton
Zack Evans, Jacob Juetten
Murray Middle School
http://52093417.nhd.weebly.com/ Leader & Legacy: Eva
Audrey Power-Theisen, Janey Post
Honorable Mention
McDonald Velesh & The Rise of Labor Journalism
Ramsey Middle School - St. Paul
http://38627780.nhd.weebly.com/ Marine Mills
Maddy Oakes, Harriet Slaats
Chaska Middle School East
http://88847120.nhd.weebly.com/ Ric O'Barry: The Keeper
Justine Stellmaker, Kendall Benson
of the Cove
Seward Montessori School
http://74531166.nhd.weebly.com/ Hubert Humphrey: How a Astrid Berger, Chloe Persigehl-Flak
Risky Speech Helped Change America
Chaska Middle School West
http://48572465.nhd.weebly.com/ Charles Lindbergh's
Justin Bach, Andrew Neuman, Gabe
Transatlantic Flight: Leadership and Legacy in Aviation
Friedbauer, Ben Gersh
Ramsey Middle School -
http://91320834.nhd.weebly.com/ The Manhattan Project
Charles Klage, Eli Knaus
Minneapolis
Under the Leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kenwood Trail Middle School
http://11672206.nhd.weebly.com/ The White Mouse is
Molly Rapp, Rhubee Affeldt
Wanted: Nancy Wake
Capitol Hill Magnet School
Capitol Hill Magnet School
http://57373150.nhd.weebly.com/ Motown: Creating a New
Morgan Jones, Ethan Saudfort-
Era of Music
Marchese
http://22053754.nhd.weebly.com/ Nelson Mandela and the
Carrol Williams, Damauria Walker
Fight for Equality in South Africa
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Group Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
Wayzata West Middle School
http://79617050.nhd.weebly.com/ Lewis Hine: Picturing a
Sierra Chen, Hannah Johnson
Better Place for Children
Central Middle School (WBL)
http://73543032.nhd.weebly.com/ Brother Can You Spare a
Brady O'Brien, Michael Turley
Dime
Field Middle School
http://91289241.nhd.weebly.com/ Napoleon: Little Man, Big
Wilson Psotka, Xander Freeman
Legacy
1st
Central Middle School (WBL)
http://43963432.nhd.weebly.com/ Julia Child: The French
Riley Gent, Kate Hall
Chef
2nd
Chaska Middle School West
http://13871840.nhd.weebly.com/ The Fight for Black
Shea Kerry, Natalie Plant
Consciousness: Steve Biko and Donald Woods
3rd
Barton Open School
http://25465542.nhd.weebly.com/ Daisy Bates and the Little Sarah Shepard, Penelope Specker
Rock Nine
4th
Barton Open School
http://72776659.nhd.weebly.com/ Helen Keller: A Legacy
Lien Tran, Isadora Benson
and Voice for Change
5th
Salk Middle School
http://82229601.nhd.weebly.com/ The Manhattan Project:
L. Groves & R. Oppenheimer's Influence in Ending WWII
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Benjamin Greni, Jazmyn Gray
Junior Individual Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
Ramsey Middle School - St. Paul
General Matthew B. Ridgeway: A Legacy of Leadership
Soren Malm
Olson Middle School-
Adolph Hitler and the Leadership Principle
Aaron George
Minnewaska Area High School
"Leaders of the Early American Labor Movement"
Sam Peters
Chaska Middle School West
Nikola Tesla: Energy for the Modern World
Isaac Brecht
Calvin Christian School - Blaine
Charles A. Pillsbury: Revolutionizing the Milling Process while Caleb Kroeze
Honorable Mention
Bloomington
Leading the Milling Industry
Northfield Middle School
WASP and their Unknown Legacy
Samuel Temple
Friedell Middle School
Albert Einstein: Redefining Leadership and Merging Scientific
Hemanth Asirvatham
and Societal Legacy
Oak Grove Middle School
Arthur Ashe's Impact: Racial Equality on and off the Tennis
Mimi Rye
Courts
Salk Middle School
Jane Gray Swisshelm: Justice in Journalism
Meghan Bentz
Salk Middle School
Charles Lindbergh and the Transatlantic Flight
Bennett Jordan
Salk Middle School
The Beatles: The Globalization of Entertainment Through the
Kiera Larson
British Invasion
Carondelet Catholic School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Elvis Presley: Bringing Two Races Together Rock and Roll
Victoria Brimacomb
Junior Individual Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
Friends School of Minnesota
The Woman Behind the Doll: Ruth Handler's Leadership in
Isabel Dieperink
Creating the Legacy of Barbie
1st
Chaska Middle School East
Roger Bannister: Racing the Impossible
Kyra Sandness
Capitol Hill Magnet School
"Hallelujah I'm Travelin'": The Legacy of the Freedom Riders
Riaz Kelly
Open World Learning
The Leadership of Sigurd F. Olson
Theo Sage-Martinson
Rosebud: Orson Wells Directing Citizen Kane and
Trinity Anderson
2nd
3rd
Community
4th
Wayzata West Middle School
Revolutionizing Cinematography
5th
Oak Grove Middle School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Clair Patterson's Battle Against Lead
Ryan Meany
Junior Individual Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
http://89182974.nhd.weebly.com/ Everything's Relative:
Glen Erickson
Honorable Mention
Friedell Middle School
How Albert Einstein Led us to a Brighter Future
Friends School of Minnesota
http://43176502.nhd.weebly.com/ The Complex Political
Henry Jacobs
Legacies of Mikhail Gorbachev and his Leadership in the
Soviet Union
Olson Middle School-
http://59913631.nhd.weebly.com/ Theodore Roosevelt: A
Bloomington
Leader in Conservation
Friedell Middle School
http://19790501.nhd.weebly.com/ Gratia Countryman: The
Zachary Marotz
Harper Daire
Little Librarian That Did
Highland Park Middle School
http://56963479.nhd.weebly.com/ Sister Kenny: Leadership
Liv Rosten
in a Time of Crisis
Holy Rosary School
http://95800461.nhd.weebly.com/ Samuel Snivley and the
Emma Watson
Creation of Skyline Parkway
Salk Middle School
http://13289551.nhd.weebly.com/ Tahirih and the
Tess Trombley
Conference of the Badasht
Salk Middle School
http://39753546.nhd.weebly.com/ Mahatma Gandhi
Amulya Maripally
Salk Middle School
http://90950634.nhd.weebly.com/ Great Stalin: The
Alexis Wagenfeld
Leadership and Legacy of Joseph Stalin, the Great Terror,
and the Cult of Personality
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Junior Individual Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
Wayzata West Middle School
http://50713353.nhd.weebly.com/ Jonas Salk and the Polio
Emma Reed
Vaccine
Capitol Hill Magnet School
http://61400412.nhd.weebly.com/ A Legacy of Healing: The
Cali Rivera
Doctors Mayo
Barton Open School
http://26109098.nhd.weebly.com/ "Failure is Impossible":
Grace Prince
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Leading the
Way to Women's Rights
Central Middle School (WBL)
http://37550609.nhd.weebly.com/ Rosie the Riveter:
Kaitlyn Maher
Women in the Workforce
1st
Brooklyn Center Junior High
http://75023599.nhd.weebly.com/ Edward Jenner
Andy Wong
Susan B. Anthony Middle School
http://38550923.nhd.weebly.com/ Beate Gordon and
Elsa Bieger
2nd
Women's Rights in Japan
3rd
Math and Science Academy
http://75057058.nhd.weebly.com/ Eunice Kennedy Shriver:
Manashree Padiyath
The Founder of Special Olympics
4th
Wayzata West Middle School
http://17617381.nhd.weebly.com/ Earl Bakken: Leadership
through Wires
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Anni Wickman
Junior Individual Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
Salk Middle School
http://66183606.nhd.weebly.com/ Jewish Labor Committee
Jadon Purcell
5th
Makes a Difference
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Paper
School
Title
Student(s)
The Mayo Brothers: Operating on Ideals
Sarah Hirsch
Blake School
A Year in Travel
Bennett Mattson
North Lakes Academy
Paradise on Earth? The Legacy of the Jonestown Massacre
Will Tiedeman
Highland Park Senior High
Elizabeth Blackwell: Blazing the Path for Female Doctors
Blessie Mande
Summitt of Success
Lauren Whalen
Highland Park Senior High
These Dead Girls Cry Aloud: Leadership and Legacy in the
April Bannister
School
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
St. Louis Park High School
A Great Shift: Egyptian Foreign Policy Under Anwar Sadat
Samuel Orloff
Blake School
Betty Ford: A Leader for Women's Rights in Medicine
Grace Seeley
Highland Park Senior High
The Common Sense of Common Sense: The Impact of
Claire Davis
School
Thomas Paine's Revolutionary Pamphlet on the Formation of
Honorable Mention
White Bear Lake High School North Campus
School
White Bear Lake High School North Campus
1st
2nd
3rd
the American Government
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Paper
School
Title
Student(s)
Minnewaska Area High School
J. R. R. Tolkien: His Unexpected Journey
Anna Haus
Mankato West High School
Augusto Pinochet: The Realities of the Free Market in Chile
Naomi Maureen Lopez
4th
5th
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Group Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
Open World Learning
Oscar Romero: Martyr for the People, the Archbishop's
Eli Sage-Martinson, Sam Dale-Gau,
Community
Leadership and Legacy in the Salvadoran Church
Bjorn Holm, Simon Dungan-Seaver
St. Thomas Academy
The Legend of Late Night: The Leadership and Legacy of
Joe Henderson, Chase Nielsen,
Johnny Carson
Hunter Nielsen
Berry Gordy's Motown Records Legacy: Leading the Way to
Cullen Okerstrom, Micheil Johnston
Honorable Mention
CHOF School
Recording the "Sound of Young America"
Fridley High School
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: The Uprising that Rocked
Miranda Olson, Jasmine Pierce
the Communist World
Washington Secondary Complex
Walter Mondale's Leadership Role at the 1964 Democratic
Sheng Thao, Kalyna Xiong
National Convention: A Lasting Legacy in Party Politics
Creekside Christian Homeschool
A Cure for Pity: Dr. Gillette and the Founding of the Gillette
Patience Griswold, Gideon Griswold
Children's Hospital
South High School
John Muir
Marco Dregni, Joe Forest, Ayub
Mohamud
DeLaSalle High School
Bayard Rustin: Organizing Equality
Yajaira Martinez, Maleko LattinMcCrary
St. Louis Park High School
The End of the Cold War: Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald
Jayne Stevenson, Anna Roethler,
Reagan
Lauren vonEschen, Marcie James,
Emily Doss
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Group Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
DeLaSalle High School
Joseph Goebbels: The Man Who Shaped a Nation
Paul Hupp, Patrick McCarthy, Nate
Wachowiak
1st
Open World Learning
Ella Baker: A Legacy of Grassroots Leadership
Siena Leone-Getten, Paying Lor
Fault Lines: The Legacy of Partition
Zachariah Sippy, Jordan Kaplan,
Community
2nd
Southwest High School
Ethan Kadet
3rd
DeLaSalle High School
Don Haskins
Jake Hanson, Jenson Draper,
Zachary Fimon
4th
South High School
"What good are gay rights if we're all dead": The Impact of
Grace Palmer, Frances Matejcek,
AIDS on the LGBT equality movement
Becky Norling-Ruggles
Wahl for Justice; Justice for All
Katie Meeker, Liz Hisey, Demery
5th
Chatfield Public Schools
Little
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Group Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
http://96978303.nhd.weebly.com/ Felix Longoria's Legacy:
Nathaly Carchi, John Bueno
Honorable Mention
Wellstone International HS
Sparking Dr. Hector Garcia's Leadership
Wellstone International HS
http://24893527.nhd.weebly.com Tuskegee Airmen: Black
Hani Omar, Obsa Mohammed, Hodan
Wings Take To The Sky
Mohamed, Sakariye Jama, Ahmed
Abdo
Marshall School (High School) -
http://83331955.nhd.weebly.com/ The White Rose: The
Duluth
Silent, Yet Deadly Fight for National Freedom in Repressed
Emily Jackson, Taylor Kmiech
Germany
Highland Park Senior High
http://19542611.nhd.weebly.com/ The IRA Hunger Strike of
Declan Flynn, Paul Idstrom, Riley
School
1981
Henderson
Highland Park Senior High
http://35636111.nhd.weebly.com/ Girl Scouts: A Legacy of
Ellie Egbert, Lydia Treichel
School
Building Leaders
Becker High School
http://43925587.nhd.weebly.com/ The Wright Brothers
Ellie Schwartz, Georgia Thom
South High School
http://57295051.nhd.weebly.com/ John Brown's Raid on
Townes Nelson, Cyrus Nordhougen,
Harpers Ferry
Fatimzahra Ajaraam
St. Louis Park High School
St. Louis Park High School
http://98725920.nhd.weebly.com/ Dragutin Dimitrijević and Eric Hickstein, Nathan Kempf, Owen
the Black Hand
Geier
http://70862200.nhd.weebly.com/ Sun Tzu and the Art of
Jesse Schwartz, Ronen Pink
War
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Group Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
DeLaSalle High School
http://58262931.nhd.weebly.com/ Returning Integrity to the Patrick Duffy, Keenan Moore
Game
1st
Mankato West High School
http://66218635.nhd.weebly.com/ Wayne Wheeler
Deven Michels, Aisha Chughtai
DeLaSalle High School
http://38415334.nhd.weebly.com/ Charles Fremont Dight:
Marie Loye, Katie Elfstrand, Meara
The Eugenics Movement in Minnesota
Cline
http://48264840.nhd.weebly.com/ Sister Kenny:
Ariana Lopez, Nhi Tran
2nd
3rd
Mankato West High School
Challenging Traditional Polio Treatment
4th
Washington Secondary Complex
http://96565258.nhd.weebly.com/ Dorothea Dix's Letter to
Yeng Thao, Chia Xiong
the Massachusetts Legislature in 1843, Working to Lead
Positive Change for the Mentally Ill
5th
St. Thomas Academy
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
http://47101531.nhd.weebly.com/ Defender of Democracy:
Billy Sullivan, John Ingebritsen,
George Marshall, Jr.
Daniel Gehrz
Senior Individual Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
North Lakes Academy
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Legacy of Atomic Weapons
Evan Nei
Schaeffer Academy
The Little Doctor: William Worrall Mayo; Small Stature,
Emily Homme
Honorable Mention
Large Impact
St. Thomas Academy
Dick Clark: Rock and Roll for Everyone
Noah Kloster
Highland Park Senior High
Gordon Moore and his Writing of Moore's Law
Archer Gallivan
Stalin and the Industrialization of a Nation
Liam Morrissey
Washington Secondary Complex
Charlie Chaplin: The Voice of Silent Film
Ryan Loehlein
Becker High School
John Muir: Protecting Native Though the Power of Word
Evan Schafer
South High School
L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology
Alexander Otte
North Lakes Academy
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
Hannah Hanson
Edison High School
Nellie Bly
Emilie Zibble
Century High School - MP
Save Our Children: The Unintended Legacy of the Nation's
Maddie Pavek
School
Highland Park Senior High
School
1st
First Anti-Gay Rights Movement
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Individual Documentary
School
Title
Student(s)
Highland Park Senior High
Ida B. Wells: Leader of the Anti-Lynching Crusade
Lauren Mendoza
Marie Curie: The Birth of Radiology
Noelle Craveiro
Chatfield Public Schools
Floyd B. Olson
Levi Roline
Cretin-Derham Hall High School
Crystal Lee Sutton: The Real Norma Rae
Marina Tschida
2nd
School
3rd
Highland Park Senior High
School
4th
5th
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Senior Individual Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
http://93735292.nhd.weebly.com/ Danny Thomas: The
Miranda Skinner
Honorable Mention
Central High School
Legacy of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Thomas Academy
http://28736280.nhd.weebly.com/ A Pioneering Voice:
Greg Sercombe
Edward R. Murrow
Calvin Christian High School-
http://86011197.nhd.weebly.com/ Starving to Make a
Fridley
Difference
South High School
http://62035280.nhd.weebly.com Martha Harper: The
Mollie Kelderman
Veronica Hayes
Creation of the Franchise
Mankato West High School
http://13306747.nhd.weebly.com/ Father of the Green
Megan Holub
Revolution
Kennedy Senior High School
http://19328140.nhd.weebly.com/ The Life Changing Code:
Isaac Johnson
A Story of Indian Relations
DeLaSalle High School
http://98110441.nhd.weebly.com/ The Gruen Effect: What
Natasha Johnston-Brugger
are you Shopping for?
Chanhassen High School
http://56447405.nhd.weebly.com/ Winston Churchill: Master Daniel Pharis
Orator
Becker High School
http://77850106.nhd.weebly.com/ The Cat in the Hat Fights
Kaitlyn Novitsky
Back
Hermantown High School
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
http://97766168.nhd.weebly.com/ Ancel Keys
Chuka Udejiofor
Senior Individual Web Site
School
Title
Student(s)
DeLaSalle High School
http://20090800.nhd.weebly.com/ Abolishing the Ottoman
Ben Mandler
1st
Caliphate
2nd
St. John’s Preparatory School
http://25621162.nhd.weebly.com/ Josip Broz Tito and
Amelia Broman
Yugoslavia: Maintaining an Independent Communist State
3rd
Marshall School (High School) -
http://34534356.nhd.weebly.com/ The English
Duluth
Reformation: King Henry VIII's Power Struggle
Marshall School (High School) -
http://19976712.nhd.weebly.com/ Desmond Tutu: A Bishop
Duluth
to End Apartheid
DeLaSalle High School
http://58897791.nhd.weebly.com/ His Red Nation: Little
Farley Hammond
4th
Rachel DeWitte
5th
Crow & the U.S.-Dakota War
Minnesota History Day 4 May 2015
Evie Samuelson