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Press Release
38 DPS Entries Headed To State History Day Competition
Thirty-eight team and individual entries from Denver Public Schools will compete in the Colorado History Day at the University of Colorado April 27.The teams were selected as state qualifiers during the March 3 Denver History Day at Hamilton Middle School.
The 38 individual and group entries in the competition were selected from 290 total entries.
For the competition, students research a topic of their choice based on the theme and prepare entries that may be in the form of historical papers, documentaries (media presentation), live performances, or exhibits. This year's theme is "Frontiers In History - People, Places, Ideas."
Following the state competition, winners will move on to National History Day at the University of Maryland in June. Last year, Denver Public Schools was home to a national winner. The district has also earned many state trophies in previous years.
Here are this year's state qualifiers:
Junior Paper
1st The Scopes "Monkey" Trial: A Frontier Then and Now; John Stanford, Hamilton Middle School
2nd Jackie Robinson - Crossing the Racial Frontier; Ben Temple, Hamilton Middle School
3rd Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine; Daniel Lewis, Hamilton Middle School
Junior Individual Documentary
1st The Vaquero; Chris Apodaca - Baker Middle School
2nd Galileo Galilei: Path-Breaking Scientist; Natalia Spampinato - Hamilton Middle School
Junior Group Documentary
1st Pablo Picasso: Exploring Frontiers of Expression; Jesús Aguirre, Nancy Alferez, Rocio Aranda, Cesar Maldonado, Armando Ponce - Horace Mann Middle School
2nd FDR and the American Way; Emily Reitman, Matt Waysdorf, Michael Williams - Denver School of the Arts
3rd Jackie Robinson: Pioneering the White Baseball Frontier; Tommy Rhine, Arys Subiadur - Baker Middle School
Junior Individual Performance
1st Frontiers in Medicine: Smallpox; John Hughes - Place Middle School
2nd Gandhi - The Fall of Empires; Andrew Foote - Place Middle School
Junior Group Performance
1st The Nez Perce and the Vanishing Land; Daryle Conquering Bear, Danielle Martinez, Christian Orozco, Andrew Ramirez, Ashley Tafoya - Baker Middle School
2nd Elizabeth Blackwell; Joseph Cordova, Rebecca Feder, Meghan Hartvigson, Amelia Martinez, Sarah Sawyer - Baker Middle School
3rd Women Fight Back; Ava Dinges, Chantž Karmikani, Jessica Serowski, Kelsey Bergfelder, Bethany Cornish - Denver School of the Arts
Junior Individual Exhibit
1st America's Conservation Movement; Catherine Norbeck - Hamilton Middle School
2nd Claudius Ptolemy and His Frontier in Geography; Lincoln Collins - Hamilton Middle School
3rd Imperialism: The Spanish-American War and the Birth of an American Empire, Veronica Barrios - Hamilton Middle School
Junior Group Exhibit
1st Passage to Freedom; Shawna Packer, Ana Portillo - Baker Middle School
2nd The Mexican-American War: A War for a Frontier; José Galván, Ivana Peña, Vanessa Peña, Cecilia Pérez, Rubi Rivera - Horace Mann Middle School
3rd The History of Cinema; Emily Penitti, Kellen Seavy - Hamilton Middle School Senior Division
Senior Paper
1st Frontiers of American Democracy: The Pioneering Work of John Locke; Shana Montrose - George Washington High School
2nd Bore Through the Frontier: Colorado's Moffat Tunnel; Michael Graham - George Washington High School
3rd Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince: The Frontier of Power Politics; Aaron Kaplan - George Washington High School
Senior Individual Documentary
1st The Industry of "Cut & Paste;" Joshua Valdez - Denver School of the Arts
2nd Crossing the Border: Frontiers in Human Genetics; Kent Pace - George Washington High School
3rd The Space Frontier: Mercury & Apollo; Chris Richardson - Thomas Jefferson High School
Senior Group Documentary
1st The Serendipitous Frontier; David Shippley, Adrianna Martinez, Israel Gonzales, Maria Navejas, Mayra Lopez - North High School
2nd Cry for Freedom: Fall of the Berlin Wall; David Rickles, Michael Goodman - Thomas Jefferson High School
3rd Human Genome Project: Forging Frontiers in Medicine; Rosie Sherman, Stephan Grove - George Washington High School
Senior Individual Performance
1st Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman of Medicine; Nichole Carter - Denver School of the Arts
Senior Group Performance
1st The Berlin Wall: Frontier in the Advance of Liberty; David Back, Steve Morel - George Washington High School
2nd A Lasting Impression: Impressionism as a Frontier in History; Sara DeGroot, Camilla Chuvarsky - George Washington High School
3rd Curie-osity: The Story of Marie Curie; Tory Schneider, Amy Simpson, Jennifer Gonzales - Denver School of the Arts
Senior Individual Exhibit
1st Breaking Open the Continent; Jakob Moe - George Washington High School
2nd The Wright Flier; Matt Steenrod - George Washington High School
3rd Discovery of Penicillin: Spawning of a New Frontier in Modern Medicine; Bob Yu - George Washington High School
Senior Group Exhibit
1st New Waves of Physics; Jeff Meyer, Eli Stine - George Washington High School
2nd Out of the Closet, Into the Streets: The Stonewall Riots; Katherine Nakazono, Nicole Enomoto, Kathleen Boylan, Ashlee Jensen - George Washington High School
3rd The Microprocessor: Frontier in Technology; Johnny Sze, Trey Reece - George Washington High School