2016 National History Day State Qualifiers and Alternates Western Region Contest University of Wisconsin-­‐La Crosse March 30, 2016 Junior Individual Exhibit Qualification Name(s) Title School State Alex Pellowski Atomic Bomb Holmen Middle School State Lily Powers Indian Boarding Schools Holmen Middle School State Cameron Larson Rachel Carson Holmen Middle School st
1 Alternate Mason Crooks Cuban Missile Crisis Lancaster Middle School nd
2 Alternate Taylor Rahlf Women’s Suffrage Holmen Middle School Junior Group Exhibit State Alivia Beaman, Lauren Kidd The Columbian Exchange Blair-­‐Taylor Middle School State Kalista Rigelsky, Brynn Our Lady of the Angels Holmen Middle School Beer School Fire State Bradley Moren, Landon Frank Lloyd Wright Holmen Middle School Pederson 1st Alternate Zoie Pehler, Jessica Kupka, Kristallnacht: “The Night Arcadia Middle School Chloe Halverson of Broken Glass” nd
2 Alternate Kaylynn Weltzien, James William the Conqueror’s Arcadia Middle School Ziegeweid, Cheyenne Encounter and Exchange Mensch with English Language Senior Individual Exhibit State Josie Hansen Stephen Babcock Bangor High School State Trevor Theurer The Armistice Day Bangor High School Blizzard: A Deadly Encounter 1 State 1st Alternate 2nd Alternate Sawyer Hanson Erika Swartz Colin Nyseth Senior Group Exhibit State Kassandra Drew, Nicole Young State Olivia Stage, Laura Munson, Erin Ericson State Emily Ruchti, Derek Kephart 1st Alternate Courtney Oesterie, Ashlie Lockington Junior Individual Documentary State Vikram Ailiani State Natalie Halderson State Enya Szymanski 1st Alternate Makenzie Stammeryer Junior Group Documentary State Victor Spaeth, Alvin Hsieh State State Josie Leger, Haley Dressler Lauren Patterson, Nikola Tesla All that Remains The Steel Man Onalaska High School Bangor High School Eleva-­‐Strum High School Trail of Tears: Cherokee Nation Cochlear Implants Fennimore High School Lewis and Clark: A Land Explored Spanish Influenza, 1918-­‐
1919 Fennimore High School Success Against All Odds: Exploring How America Built the Panama Canal The Hmong Journey Onalaska Middle School Johann Sebastian Bach: A Musical Legend Lobotomy Eva Schloss: Auschwitz Onalaska Middle School Holmen Middle School Lincoln Middle School Onalaska High School Bangor High School Onalaska Middle School Helen Keller: Advocate for Lincoln Middle School Not Only the Handicapped Charles Loring Brace’s Holmen Middle School Orphans and Trains: Encounter New Laws and Families 2 Catherine Cunnignham Caitlin Zlabek, Brooke Visker nd
2 Alternate Marlie Voight, William Stevens, Levi Magnuson Senior Individual Documentary State Aditya Ailiani 1st Alternate Senior Group Documentary State Katie Chafoulias, Kaylin Lusk, Becca Enos State Kierra Felce Rachael Anderson Annie Skogen, Ally Robinson, Elsa Dabrowski State 1st Alternate Noah Friet, Trent Friet, Dalton Peters nd
2 Alternate Jason Oyen, Blake Cooley, Konner Schroeder, Elliot Haverland Junior Individual Performance State Livi Pappadopoulas State State Chando Horvath Anna Durall Survivor Kwik Trip What is Pokeman? Onalaska Middle School Logan Middle School The Journey of Sugar: Neither Short or Sweet Onalaska High School The Harlem Renaissance: An Encounter and Exchange of African American Culture The Telephone Onalaska High School Eleva-­‐Strum High School Onalaska High School Horace Wells and William T.G. Morton: Exploring Painless Procedures Under the Knife Partisan: The Story of Paul Bangor High School Al Strassman Apollo: Leaping into the Potosi High School Unknown Logging: The Importance of Lumber Exchange in Wisconsin’s History Women’s Suffrage Angelina and Sarah Holmen Middle School Holmen Middle School Lincoln Middle School 3 1st Alternate 2nd Alternate Emily Jessesski Ryan Guest Junior Group Performance State Braidyn Ruetten Naleah Nerby State Jesie Hanson, Marissa Harris State Lauren Boge, McKenna Oettel, Gwen Schroeder, Avery Trohkimoinen Senior Individual Performance Senior Group Performance Junior Paper State Elliott de Boer State Sacia Gilbertson State Hannah Liyanarachchi 1st Alternate Jordan Grider 2nd Alternate Sophia Harshaw Grimke: Exploring New Ideas in Equal Rights Spanish Influenza Edward Jenner and the Smallpox Vaccine Marie Curie and Her Glowing Discoveries Walt Disney Holmen Middle School Holmen Middle School Holmen Middle School Winged Women of WWII West Salem Middle School Lincoln Middle School The Legacy of a Shipwreck: The Dutch Conquest of South Africa Jean Piaget: Changing Education and Psychology by Exploring Children’s Cognition Their Flag and Mine: New Zealand’s Flagstaff War The Cherokee Exchange of Land and Culture The Mistreatment in Onalaska Middle School Holmen Middle School Onalaska Middle School Onalaska Middle School Holmen Middle School 4 Insane Asylums: Exploring the Madness Senior Paper State Victoria Kearns State Mikayla McNally State Nathan Lowrey 1st Alternate Cora Kostuch 2nd Alternate Miles Saylor Junior Individual Website State Benjamin Labuzzetta State Quintin Olson State Evan Baines 1st Alternate Rachel Tully 2nd Alternate Ellery Leirmo Junior Group Website State Oliva Meyers, Lydia Korn State Maddie Heffernan, Ever Brague Infection, Disease, and Weapons: Exploring Biological Warfare in the Ancient World The Brutal Encounter of the Middle Passage Prohibition: New Societal Frontiers Decades of Destruction: The Legacy of Agent Orange’s Encounters The Diffusion of Lacrosse Onalaska High School Apollo-­‐Soyuz Test Project NASCAR Safety NATO and the Warsaw Pact’s Effect of Post WWII Women’s Airforce Service Pilots: Female Flyers of WWII Bruce Lee: The Dragon Holmen Middle School Holmen Middle School Lincoln Middle School Nellie Bly John Smith and the Powhatans: An Exchange that Changed Lives Cashton Middle School Lincoln Middle School Necedah High School Onalaska High School Bangor High School Necedah High School Lincoln Middle School Onalaska Middle School 5 State Adam Quam, Justin Bausch, Jaedon Abraham, Austin Dechant st
1 Alternate Seth Kendrick, Anthony Linneman nd
2 Alternate Kaitlyn Hanson, Ella Bachim Senior Individual Website State Christine Cheung State Andrea Hinitt State Taylor Noga 1st Alternate Jared Everitt 2nd Alternate Bryn Langrehr Senior Group Website State Yining “Tracy” Zhou, Ricky Chen State Julia Hess, Kirah Olson State Eva Marchiando, Katelin Gobel, Brooke Richardson 1st Alternate Gina Hamilton, Andrew Runde, kSarah Wood The Lost Boys of Sudan Holmen Middle School Galileo Galilei: A Life of Discovery Svalbard Fennimore Middle School Logan Middle School Acupuncture: Poking its Way into Modern Medicine Sigmund Freud and His Advantages Towards Modern Psychology An Electrifying Intuition: Nikola Tesla’s Apollo 11 Founding La Crosse Onalaska High School Louis Pasteur: The Exploration of Rabies John Muir and the Exploration of Environmental Conservation The Mississippi River: Logging, Trading, and Advancement The Vaccination and Eradication of Smallpox Onalaska High School Onalaska High School Onalaska High School Fennimore High School Bangor High School Onalaska High School Onalaska High School Onalaska High School 6 2nd Alternate Justin Wiggins, Mercadies LeMoine Apollo 1 Explosion Bangor High School 7