News Release
April 2, 2007
Students Receive History Day Honors
Denver History Day was held at Hamilton Middle School on March 17. The following students received honors at the competition and will represent Denver Public Schools at the Colorado History Day competition on April 28 at the University of Colorado in Boulder:
JUNIOR DIVISION
Junior Papers
- 1st Place - Sally Selim, "The Cuban Missile Crisis: Tragedy of a Nuclear Threat, Triumph of Overcoming It" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Camara Powell, "Vincent van Gogh: A Triumph Throughout a Tragedy" (Hamilton Middle School)
Junior Individual Exhibit
- 1st Place - Sarah Pierce, "Galileo: He Triumphantly Saw Through Theory and Grasped the Facts" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Nicole Sidor, "'They're All Gone': Triumph and Tragedy at the 1972 Olympics" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - Evan Smith-Acuna, "Lives of American Women Working in the Factories During World War II" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 4th Place - Elizabeth Marsh, "Risky Business" (Hamilton Middle School)
Junior Group Exhibit
- 1st Place - Anil Arora, Patrick Tapp, Michael Wakefield; "From the Ashes Rises the Phoenix of the Workers and Their Rights: The Ludlow Massacre" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Cari Sadler, Alaina Pendleton, Sasha Bruce; "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Triumphant Tragedy" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - Breann Pugnetti, Chloe Thomas; "Recruited, Rejected, Accepted: Chinese Immigrants in the American Society" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 4th Place - Giselle Rudnick, Bryce Rudnick; "Say It Ain't So, Joe" (Hamilton Middle School)
Junior Individual Performance
- 1st Place - Sam Miller, "Benedict Arnold: Triumph and Treason" (Denver School of the Arts)
Junior Group Performance
- 1st Place - Peyton Lucey, Jaime Midgyett, Juliana Pullis, Kristina Aasheim, Matthew Lewis; "Rosie the Riveter: 'We Can Do It'" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Madison Hubert, Elizabeth Lee; "Boom and Bust: The Triumph and Tragedy of Baby Doe Tabor" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Karina LaGuardia, Sam Van Wetter, Hannah Recht, Amanda Brockbank, Samantha Davis, "Are You, Or Have You Ever Been a Member of the Communist Party?: The Trial of the Hollywood Ten" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 4th Place - Emma Whitehead, Sarah Hammond, Emily Lyon, Sydney France, Lauryn Romaine; "Nellie Bly: Reporter, Feminist and So Much More" (Denver School of the Arts)
Junior Individual Documentary
- 1st Place - Huan Manton, "The Nanjing Massacre" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Amel Topic, "Tito: Triumph in the Balkans" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 3rd Place - Dominic Fante, "'Die Juden Haben Waffen!'" (Hamilton Middle School)
Junior Group Documentary
- 1st Place - Abby Kumagai, Andie Doak, Blake Goldstein, Carina Stavish; "The Flash That Shook the World: The Atomic Bomb" (Hamilton Middle School)
- 2nd Place - Alexandra Guy, Francesca Clifford; "A Chance for Hope: Emily Griffith and the Opportunity School" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Calla Winchell, Cordelia Finley, Hava Rosenberg, Robyn Ukockis; "Yankee Doodle Gals: Triumph in Aviation" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 4th Place - Jamie Engel, Emily Paton, Angie Neslin; "The Price of Grass: Land Grab on LaSierra in Colorado" (Hamilton Middle School)
SENIOR DIVISION
Senior Papers
- 1st Place - Kathleen Shea, "Conquering the Invincible: Triumphs and Tragedies at Stalingrad" (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Katie Whitnah, "'Chicago Shall Rise Again': The Second City Is Reborn From Its Ashes" (George Washington High School)
- 3rd Place - Connor Phillips, "Robert Kennedy and the Cuba Affair: Triumph and Tragedy" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Ella Peterson, "This Is No Peace: Israel's Triumph in the Six Day War and the Tragedy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (George Washington High School)
Senior Individual Exhibit
- 1st Place - Emmily Pierce, "'Bound for Canaan!': The Triumphant Underground Railroad" (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Rebecca Chazin, "From Emancipation to Jim Crowe: Triumph and Tragedy in Mississippi" (George Washington High School)
- 3rd Place - Tsion Teklu, "Unternehmen Barbarossa" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Paloma Jiminez, "Rachel Carson: Triumphant Founder of the Modern Ecology Movement" (George Washington High School)
Senior Group Exhibit
- 1st Place - Chris Ghincea, Alexander Ghincea, Joe Chehouri, Zander Louden; "Giving Communism a Human Face: Prague Spring, Triumph and Tragedy on the Road to Freedom" (George Washington High School)
- 2nd Place - Meghan Kleinsteiber, Schuyler Gibson; "Hitler's Triumph, Germany's Tragedy, 1932-1939" (George Washington High School)
- 3rd Place - Kalyn Tung, Christine Stewart; "'Suffering the Winds of Change': The Chinese Cultural Revolution Under Mao Zedong" (George Washington High School)
- 4th Place - Sophia Moore, Emily Berger, Jennifer Berger; "Éirinn go Brách: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Irish War of Independence" (George Washington High School)
Senior Individual Performance
- 1st Place - Joanna Foote, "The Meiji Restoration: Triumph of Cultural Identity, Tragedy of Militarism" (George Washington High School)
Senior Group Performance
- 1st Place - Kristian Cowden, Maggie Thulson, Clare Barrett, Emily Barrett, Gwenllian Kern-Allely; "The Misnomer of An Gorta Mor" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Claire Carson, Brittany Vicars, Wyatt Manoble, Anthony Marcantoni; "The Rise and Fall of the Tabors" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Shane Franklin, Eboni Coleman, Keyausha Adams, Jon Shockness, Aaron Gaston, "Five Points: Triumph in the Heart of the Black Community" (Denver School of the Arts)
Senior Individual Documentary
- 1st Place - Shannon Desmond, "3 Lives for Mississippi: Tragedy Strikes in a Triumphant Movement" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Che Reyes, "United 232, Triumph and Tragedy in Sioux City" (George Washington High School)
- 3rd Place - Brian Sulley, "Richard Halliburton: A Life of Triumph Ends in Tragedy" (George Washington High School)
Senior Group Documentary
- 1st Place - Kevin Bell, Julia Yeckes, Ryan Fraser; "Exposing the Exploiters: Lewis Hine - The Visual Spokesman for Social Welfare" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 2nd Place - Sarah Johnson, Katie Aldworth, Tracy Fielder, Jake Lackner; "Triumphing Over Tragedy: The 1973 Wounded Knee Takeover" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 3rd Place - Sarah Goode, Lila Creighton; "National Jewish Hospital: A Haven of Hope" (Denver School of the Arts)
- 4th Place - Nick Creighton, Kevin Mahoney; "Tragedy of the Place That No One Knew" (Denver School of the Arts)
In addition, the first annual Denver Public Schools NHD Geography Awards, given for the best use of geographical resources, were presented to:
- Junior Division - Huan Manton, "The Nanjing Massacre" (Denver School of the Arts)
- Senior Division - Sophia Moore, Emily Berger, Jennifer Berger; "Éirinn go Brách: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Irish War of Independence" (George Washington High School)
For more information, please contact Becky Muggli, Project Coordinator, Denver Public Schools Gifted & Talented Department, at 720-423-8274.