News Release
April 18, 2006
Denver Public Schools Sends 66 Entries To Colorado State History Day Competition Saturday, April 29
Denver Public Schools will send 66 entries to the Colorado History Day competition at the University of Colorado in Boulder on Saturday, April 29. The winners below were chosen at the city competition April 8. The top entries from the state competition will advance to the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland in June.
Junior Paper
- 1st Place - Elliot Mamet, "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Taking a Stand in the Senate (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Julia Sigman, "If the Shoe Doesn't Fit, Must We Change the Foot?" - Gloria Steinem (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - Gina Basse, "The Shame of America: Lincoln Steffens' Story" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 4th Place - Amel Topic, "Paul Revere and the Stand of the Midnight Ride for Liberty" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 5th Place - Quincey Kippley, "Queen Liliuokalani, Taking a Stand in History" (Place Middle School)
Junior Individual Exhibit
- 1st Place - Aerick Francis, "Sitting Down to Take a Stand: The Greensboro Lunchcounter Sit-ins" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Alex Gustafson, Sojourner Truth: Taking a Stand for Women's Rights and the Cruelty of Slavery" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - Emmily Pierce, "Rosa Parks: She Took a Stand by Sitting Down" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 4th Place - Ralph Stage, "Martin Luther King's Stand for Equality" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 5th Place - Patrick Tapp, "Tuskagee Airmen: Taking a Stand by Fighting an Enemy Not German" (Hamilton Middle School)
Junior Group Exhibit
- 1st Place - Sarah Black, Jane Culkin, Heather Yin: "Standing Up Against Child Labor: Through the Lens of Lewis Hine" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Natalie Lays, Maddie Winslow, Christie Collins, "Susan B. Anthony: Daring to Stand Up for Women's Rights - Failure is Impossible" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - Olivia Edwards, Faryn Tobler; "We Do Love This Land: John Ross and His Stand Against Cherokee Oppression" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 4th Place - Ben Johnson, Matthew Webb, Jason Yin; "The Gunpowder Plot: A Stand That Made a Bang in History" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 5th Place - Ruby Dorchester, Maura Mckay, Alemi Tsutsui, Kylie Zahl; "Executive Order 9066: Behind Barbed Wire" (Denver School of the Arts)
Junior Individual Performance
- 1st Place - William Cravy, "James Otis: Taking a Stand for the Natural Rights of Man" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Sarah Pierce, "A Movement for Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. Takes a Stand for Civil Rights" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - Carina Stavish, "Brown v. Board of Education" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 4th Place - Kyle Wright, "How Martin Luther King Jr. Took a Stand" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 5th Place - Elizabeth March, "Elizabeth Garrett Anderson" (Hamilton Middle School)
Junior Group Performance
- 1st Place - Eboni Coleman, Nora Sullivan, Nick Thorne, Will Toaspern; "A House Divided: Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Nyasha James Davis, Tia Owens, Shannon Patilla, Kara Powell, Phillip Jenkins; "Fannie Lou Hamer Takes the Stand" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Amanda Brockbank, Hannah Brookman, Zoe Leanza, Liz Lee, Mei Mei Pollitt, "The Women Who Carved America: Four Great American Women Who Took a Stand in History" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 4th Place - Erika Roybal, Sydney Kramcha, Alex Pohl; "Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Changed a Nation" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 5th Place - Aura Cruz, Emily Gould, Syndee Masias, Julian Ramirez, Mateo Rocha; "Dolores Huerta: Behind Every Great Man..." (Denver School of the Arts)
Junior Individual Documentary
- 1st Place - Nate Skeen, "Autumn Alexander Skeen: Child Passenger Safety and Anton's Law" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Eric Morrison, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Singing to Take a Stand Against War" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - David Nowick, "Battle of the Little Bighorn: The Indian Perspective" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 4th Place - Ian Bishop, "Molly Brown: Taking a Stand for Women and Children Across the Globe" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 5th Place - Dominic Fante, "Hold the Line at All Costs!" - A Story of Joshua Chamberlain" (Hamilton Middle School)
Junior Group Documentary
- 1st Place - Kevin Mahoney, Kathryn McCright, Nick Creighton, Zach Price; "Corky's Crusade: Taking a Stand Against Treatment of Chicanos in Denver" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Brodie Pugh, Nora Broyles, Alexandra Guy, Francesca Clifford; "The Hollywood Ten and Their Stand for the Right of Expression" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Huan Manton, Calla Winchell; "The Vietnam Veterans Against the Vietnam War" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 4th Place - Tim Peck, Michael McCoy; "United: Taking a Stand for Farm Workers" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 5th Place - Aujah Alexander, Veronica Roybal; "Rachel B. Noel: Standing Strong - The Integration of Denver Public Schools" (Park Hill School)
Senior Papers
- 1st Place - Max Brennan, "The White Rose Society: A Selfless Sacrifice: (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Pierre Biscaye, "Czar Alexander I: Taking a Stand Against a Napoleonic Europe" (George Washington High School)
- 3rd Place - Elias Thomas, "Standing Up to a Giant: King Albert of Belgium and his Stand Against the German Army in WWI" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Caitlin Opperman, "A Light in the Darkness: Morris Dees, Joseph J. Levin, Jr., and the Southern Poverty Law Centre's Stand to Combat Hate" (George Washington High School)
- 5th Place - Sam Handler, "Standing Against Prejudice from North to South: Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment" (George Washington High School)
Senior Individual Exhibit
- 1st Place - Katya Thronweber, "Taking a Courageous Stand for a Better Education" (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Rebecca Clark, "Picasso's Guernica: One Man's Stand Against the Horror of War" (George Washington High School)
- 3rd Place - Heather McCaffery, "Constance Markievicz: The Anglican Countess for the Irish Free State" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Mindy Gidan, " Mordecai Anielweicz and the Warsaw Uprising" (George Washington High School)
- 5th Place - Meghan KleinSteibler, "Divided We Stand: The Judges of Roe v. Wade" (George Washington High School)
Senior Group Exhibit
- 1st Place - Christine Stewart, Kalyn Tung; "Seeing the Skies, Finding the Truth: Galileo Galilei's Stand for the Stars" (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Cara Ostrom, Katie Whitnah; "The Women's Christian Temperance Union: 'For God, For Home, For Native Land"' (George Washington High School)
- 3rd Place - Adrianna Alterman, Lissa Brandl; "A Way with Words: Joseph Brodsky's Stand Against the Soviet Regime" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Schuyler Gibson, Erica Martinez, Vidya Pugazhenthi; "The Poor People's Campaign: Ralph D. Abernathy's Crusade for Equality" (George Washington High School)
- 5th Place - Deanna Chavez, Denene Martinez; "The Crusade for Justice: Taking a Stand Against Racial Inequality" (George Washington High School)
Senior Individual Performance
- 1st Place - Joanna Foote, "The Taiping Rebellion: Taking a Stand for Justice and Against the Corruption of the Manchy Dynasty" (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Erik Brockbank, "Put Your Bodies Upon the Gears: Mario Savio and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Jerrond Popham, "With Liberty and Justice for All: Korematsu v. United States" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Danielle Peck: "Susan B. Anthony: Taking a Stand for Women's Right to Vote" (George Washington High School)
- 5th Place - Kristian Cowden, " The Leakey Sisters" (Denver School of the Arts)
Senior Group Performance
- 1st Place - Alexander Ghincea, Christian Ghincea; "Do Not Be Afraid: Pope John Paul II Taking a Stand for Truth, Human Dignity and Social Justice" (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Clare Barrett, Emily Barrett, Magdalen Thulson, Gwenllian Kern-Allely; "Women in the Revolutionary War" (Denver School of the Arts)
Senior Individual Documentary
- 1st Place - Ryan Brown, "A Small Voice, But a Strong Voice: Governor Ralph Carr and the Japanese Americans" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Katie Braun, "The Bonus Army" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Emily Sigman, "I Did Not Forget You: Simon Wiesenthal's Stand For Justice" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Ira Mitchell, Taking the First Step in Reaching a Thousand: The Story of the American Indian Movement" (DPS Online High School)
Senior Group Documentary
- 1st Place - Tracy Fielder, Riley Price, Shannon Desmond; "Just Children: The Victims of the Pennhurst and Fernald State Schools" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Sam Clifford, Xiao Lu; "Gentleman Poisoners: Behind the Machines of Packingtown" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Kevin Bell, Katie Aldworth, Jake Lackner; "Enough of Blood and Tears: Yitzhak Rabin's Struggle for Peace" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 4th Place - Jordan Bernhardt, Brett Eagle, Jesse Gordon-Blake; "Standing Without Hope: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" (George Washington High School)
- 5th Place - Avery Colomb, Gabe Stein, Aaron Bernhardt; "The Uprising: Hungary's Stand for Freedom" (George Washington High School)
For more information, contact Becky Muggli at 720-423-8274 or Becky_Muggli@dpsk12.org.