The following DPS winners who competed in the Denver History Day competition on March 27 will advance to the Colorado History Day competition at the University of Colorado, Boulder on Saturday, April 24. The top entries from the state competition will advance to the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland from June 12 to 17.
 
Students in the Denver competition competed in one of seven entry categories: historical papers, individual or group documentaries, individual or group performances, or individual or group exhibits.
 
Junior Paper:

• 1st Place - Cara Ostrom, Hamilton Middle School, "Encounters With Chimpanzees: Jane Goodall's Research of our Closest Relatives"
• 2nd Place - Aubrey Bertram, Hamilton Middle School, "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Exploring the Human Effect on Human Nature"
• 3rd Place - Torin Francis, Denver School of the Arts, "Herodotus: Exploration, Encounter and Exchange - Short Stories"
• 4th Place - Matthew Valeta, Hamilton Middle School, "Exploring the Space Race: To Infinity and Beyond"
• 5th Place - Connor Williams, Hamilton Middle School, "David's Weeping Star: The Jewish Encounter With the 19th and 20th Century Russian Pograms"

Junior Individual Documentary

• 1st Place - Kathryn Braun, Denver School of the Arts, "Australian Aborigine: The Devastating Encounter With the English"
• 2nd Place - Zach Kimbrough, Hamilton Middle School, "The Wright Flyer"
• 3rd Place - Elliott Collins, Hamilton Middle School "The Making of Carlsbad National Park: Pathway to Cave Exploration and Conservation"
• 4th Place - Rebecca Newman, Hamilton Middle School, "Into the Depths of the Blue: Encounters and Exchanges Created by the Aqua Lung"
• 5th Place - Ciara Graves, Hamilton Middle School, "Jane Goodall: The Chimpanzee Lady"

Junior Group Documentary

• 1st Place - Shannon Desmond, Carter Isberg, Casey Wilkes; Denver School of the Arts; "The Harlem Renaissance, A New Negro"
• 2nd Place - Katie Aldworth, Grete Gansauer, Jake Lackner; Denver School of the Arts; "Apollo: Race to the Moon"
• 3rd Place - Mas Cabell-Kluch, Brent Gaisford; Hamilton Middle School; "The Manhattan Project"
• 4th Place - Jessica Laub, Julie Zorilla; Denver School of the Arts; "Polio: A World Known  Fear"
• 5th Place - Stephen Dyer, Dylan Gill, Riley Price; Denver School of the Arts; "Like Tigers Trapped: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto"

Junior Individual Performance

• 1st Place - Hannah Barnes, Denver School of the Arts, "A Musical Journey - Lewis and Clark"
• 2nd Place - Erik Brockbank, Denver School of the Arts, "Galileo Galilei: Exploring the Boundaries of Science and Faith"
• 3rd Place - Joanna Foote, Morey Middle School, "Apollo 11: Exploring the Next Frontier"
• 4th Place - Elliot Reaven, Hamilton Middle School, "McCarthy and the Witch Hunt"
• 5th Place - Alexandria Salazar, Hamilton Middle School, "European Exploration and Desecration of Egyptian Tombs and Mummies"

Junior Group Performance

• 1st Place - Miesha Gantz, Akil Lugman, Belinda Lutz, Angela Murray, Jon Shockness; Denver School of the Arts; "The Harlem Renaissance: Not an Event, But a Process"
• 2nd Place - Alex Ghincea, Chris Ghincea; Hamilton Middle School; "Building the Super Bomb: An Analysis of the Development of Nuclear Weapons in the Historical Context of the Cold War"
• 3rd Place - Chloe Amaro, Elizabeth Bennett, David Crager, Taylor Hartman, Trevor LeFarge; Denver School of the Arts; "Dusted Out"
• 4th Place - Amy Easley, Katelynn Merkin, Marissa Ritchen, Abigail Temple; Denver School of the Arts; "December 7, 1941: A Day That Will Live in Infamy"
• 5th Place - Alexandria LeeNatali, Stephanie Satler, Christina Uribe; Hamilton Middle School; "Sigmund Freud: Exploration of the Mind"

Junior Individual Exhibit

• 1st Place - Conrad Quade, Hamilton Middle School, "Hernando Cortez and the Exploration of the Aztec"
• 2nd Place - Colin Lupe, Denver School of the Arts, "The Woodstock Experience: A Moment of Peace Ends a Decade of Turmoil"
• 3rd Place - Philip Karlberg, Hamilton Middle School, "The Jet Engine"
• 4th Place - Aubrey Pierce, Hamilton Middle School, "The Remarkable Life of Corrie ten Boom"
• 5th Place - Monterey Buchanan, Hamilton Middle School, "Long Live the King: Encountering Elvis Presley in the Age of Youth and Leisure"

Junior Group Exhibit

• 1st Place - Adrian Greenholz, Lindsey Idelberg, Lauren Martinez; Hamilton Middle School; "Exploring America: Russian-Jewish Immigration 1890-1924"
• 2nd Place - Alex Gelernter, Christopher Grant; Hamilton Middle School; "The Meiji Restoration: An Exploration of Japanese Governments"
• 3rd Place - Paresa Farshid Now, Jillian Geib, Heidi Jung; Hamilton Middle School; "Marie Curie: Exploration of Radioactivity"
• 4th Place - Christine Stewart, Kalyn Tung; Hamilton Middle School; "Sand Banjou Ügüi Bayartaj Ajaamuu Yuan: The Silk Road During the Yuan Dynasty"
• 5th Place - Emilie Abbott, Christina Danek; Hamilton Middle School; "Jacques Chouteau: Exploring the Silent World"

Senior Paper

• 1st Place - John Stanford, George Washington High School, "The Crusades: A Catalyst for Exploration, Encounter and Exchange"
• 2nd Place - Mia Crager, George Washington High School, "Aid From the Foreign Devils: Encounter and Exchange Between China and the West Surrounding the Boxer Rebellion"
• 3rd Place - Michael Kleen, George Washington High School, "Early Chinese Exploration and Encounters With the World"
• 4th Place - Karla Fleckenstein, George Washington High School, "Terror in the West: Encounters and Exchanges of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Denver"
• 5th Place - Laura King, George Washington High School, "A Deadly Encounter: Encountering a New Disease and Its Impact Upon America in the 1980s"

Senior Individual Documentary

• 1st Place - Ryan Brown, Denver School of the Arts, "Barred From the Heavens"
• 2nd Place - Tyler Bray, George Washington High School, "The Marshall Plan: The Exchange of the Century"
• 3rd Place - Natalia Spampinato, George Washington High School, "Exploration and Ice: Encountering the South Pole"
• 4th Place - Ian Smith, George Washington High School, "Exploration in the Field of Medicine: Alexander Fleming Encounters Penicillin"

Senior Group Documentary

• 1st Place - Logan Brown, Patrick Chilelli, John Hughes, Danny Schimmel; George Washington High School; "Encounters With Nuclear Exchange"
• 2nd Place - Christopher Chavez, Scott Frank, Scott Gibson; George Washington High School; "Jazz: Taking the Train"
• 3rd Place - Alex Quinones, Matt Waysdorf; Denver School of the Arts; "Patton and the March Across Europe"
• 4th Place - Emma Crow-Willard, Ryan Seewald; George Washington High School; "Chaco Canyon: Ancient Astronomers and Their Trade Centers, Exploration and Exchange in History"
• 5th Place - Joshua Gonzales, Tara Sanders; Denver School of the Arts; "Central American Refugees: A Secret War"

Senior Individual Performance

• 1st Place - Kara Miller, Denver School of the Arts, "A Great Idea, A Burning Faith: Exploring a World Without Government"
• 2nd Place - James Laff, George Washington High School, "John Sidney Barrymore: Breaking Down the Fourth Wall"
• 3rd Place - Solange Eddy, George Washington High School, "Malcolm X's Africa: From Civil Rights to Human Rights"
• 4th Place - Andrew Foote, George Washington High School, "Galileo Galilei: Exploring the Heavens, Encountering Resistance"
• 5th Place - Cara Feldcamp, Denver School of the Arts, "Doc Susie: Woman Doctor in the Mountain West"

Senior Group Performance

• 1st Place - Allison Buss, Katie Morrison, Rachael Smith; George Washington High School; "The Dawes Act: The Knot in the Rope Between White Man and Indian"
• 2nd Place - Kelsey Isberg, Chanté Karimkhani, Fred Kolouch, Jessica Serowski, Brigitte Siller; Denver School of the Arts; "The Woodstock Era: Three Days of Peace, Weeks of Wrath, Years of Hope"
• 3rd Place - Amy Bowinsk, Jenna Reece, Evan Roby; George Washington High School; "A Grimm's Tale"

Senior Individual Exhibit

• 1st Place - Sarah Takimoto, George Washington High School, "Blueprint for the Future: Advancements in Colorectal Cancer"
• 2nd Place - Amma Marfowaa-Nuako, George Washington High School, "The Gone: The Slave Trade on the Gold Coast of Africa"
• 3rd Place - Erica Wormley, George Washington High School, "99% Perspiration, 1% Inspiration"
• 4th Place - Lincoln Collins, George Washington High School, "The Genius of Archimedes: Exploration to Eureka!"
• 5th Place - Rebecca Wiener, George Washington High School, "Society Meets Modern Feminism"

Senior Group Exhibit

• 1st Place - Rachel Ackermann, Julia Milwid, Leia Thomas; George Washington High School; "A Paralyzing Fear: The Search for the Polio Vaccine"
• 2nd Place - Shannon Brink, Katherine Lofgren, Wagma Mommandi; George Washington High School; "Conquering Everest: Exploration, Encounter,  Exchange in History"
• 3rd Place - Joan Park, Jennifer Sze; George Washington High School; "Exploration on Ice: Confronting the North Pole"
• 4th Place - Enoch Arthur-Asmah, Brett Roads, Adrienne Russman; George Washington High School; "The Polygraph: An Exploration Into the Human Mind and Encounter With New Technology"
• 5th Place - Ilea Bain, Lauren Kashuk; George Washington High School; "The Queen's Pirate: Encounters, Explorations and Exchanges in History"

For information, contact the Public Information Office at 720-423-3414.