Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Historical Paper − Room 015 (Independence Academy) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2001 MO Katie Seever South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks The Berlin Wall: A World Apart 09:15 2002 MO Kyle Rall Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Monroe Doctrine 09:30 2003 MO Parker Summers Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee A Never Ending Story: The Bittersweet Belfast Agreement 09:45 2004 MO Joshua Reeves Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee The Cuban Missile Crisis: Launch of International Relations 10:00 2005 MO Grace Brown Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee The Outer Space Treaty: Unity and Discord in the Final Frontier 10:15 2006 MO Beth Hemenway South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Ending the Korean War: An Uneasy Peace 10:30 2007 MO Elizabeth Soper Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee Here's Looking at You, America: Debate in Film 10:45 2008 MO Alex Burnham Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Debate of Implementation: Brown v. Board of Education 11:00 2009 MO Brooks Blank Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee The Mother of All Bombs: Nuclear Weapons 11:15 2010 MO Johnna Stewart Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly The Diplomacy of Adolf Hitler: Demonic Successes, Thankful Failures, and Lasting Effects 11:30 2011 MO Taylor Green Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Roe v Wade & the Debate over Abortion 11:45 2012 MO Austin Salmon Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee Upholding Democracy: The 22nd Amendment Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Historical Paper − Room 016 (Independence Academy) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2013 MO Mackenzie Tree Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee Freedom of Religion: Independence to Believe 09:15 2014 MO Tony Privitera Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Lyndon Johnson and The Debate Over Communism 09:30 2015 MO Zachary Brewer Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee Shia v. Sunni: Fight for the Right Islam 09:45 2016 MO Gabe Ries Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Debate to Destroy: The Decision to Drop the Bomb 10:00 2017 MO Richard Adger Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee The Lincoln−Douglas Debates: Debates that Defined a Nation 10:15 2018 MO Tanner Bird Rockhurst High School Scott Reagan Civil War Leader 10:30 2019 MO Laurel Silcott Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly The Cuban Missile Crisis: The World on the Brink of Nuclear Disaster 10:45 2020 MO Henry Hilliard Rockhurst High School Scott Reagan Kennedy/Nixon Debates 11:00 2021 MO Isaac Brown Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly The PMRC and Music Censorship: Limiting Music Choice Since 1985 11:15 2022 MO Emily Spittler South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Hong Kong: The Dynamic Transfer of Sovereignty 11:30 2023 MO Clay Wagar Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Right to Privacy: A Compendium Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Historical Paper − Room 017 (Independence Academy) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2024 MO Jordan Donner Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee An Atomic Answer: Green, Radioactive, and Controversial 09:15 2025 MO Jessica Wawiorka Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee Roe v. Wade: Women's Rights, Families' Losses, and the Battleground in Between 09:30 2026 MO John Barry Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee The Clean Air Act: Erasing Emissions 09:45 2027 MO DeJuan Kinchelow Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Roe v. Wade 10:00 2028 MO Kaitlin Windsor Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee It's All in Your Head: Depression and Adolescence 10:15 2029 MO Matthew Gude Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The 36 Day Election 10:30 2030 MO Amanda Fuller Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee Medical Marijuana: A New "High" for Pharmacies 10:45 2031 MO Brett Huber Rockhurst High School Scott Reagan Battle of Mogadishu: Blackhawk Down 11:00 2032 MO Lauren Wrigley South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Coming Home: Israel the Jewish Sanctuary 11:15 2033 MO Wyatt Jacobson Liberty North High School Kimberly Brownlee A Bridge Connecting the Oceans: Building the Panama Canal 11:30 2034 MO Blase Capelli Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Roe v. Wade: A Debate of Choice Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Individual Exhibits − Senior Individual Exhibits Group A (Truman Library Whistlestop Room) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2101 MO Arianna Smidt Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Crusades 09:15 2102 MO Sam Crawford Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Kansas−Nebraska Act: An Act of Irony 09:30 2103 MO Kit Gaulden Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Jazz: Uprisings and Outrage from America's Past Time 09:45 2104 MO Brock Hightower Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Atomic Bomb: The Decision that Changed the World 10:00 2105 MO Ali Tomlin Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Underground Railroad 10:15 2106 MO Taryn Miller Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski John F. Kennedy Assassination 10:30 2107 MO Ashley Hoff Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Missouri Compromise: Debate and Diplomacy on the Issue of Slavery 10:45 2108 MO Michael Medina Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore To Bomb or Not to Bomb? 11:00 2109 MO Julie Shalley Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Indian Removal Act and Andrew Jackson 11:15 2110 MO Marron Harris Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Keynesian Economics 11:30 2111 MO Taylor Welch Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Little Rock Nine Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Individual Exhibits − Senior Individual Exhibits Group B (Truman Library Whistlestop Room) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2112 MO Alex Verbrugge Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan 09:15 2113 MO Bret Beebe Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly The Mormon Ultimatum: Missouri Executive Order 44 09:30 2114 MO Megan Walker Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Florence Nightingale & the Debate over Women's Role in Military and Nursing 09:45 2115 MO Joel Steyer Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Indian Removal Act of 1830 10:00 2116 MO Lauren Manion Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Catherine the Great; Enlightened Despotism in Europe 10:15 2117 MO Dominic Malnar Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Professionalism vs. Amateurism in the Olympic Games 10:30 2118 MO Vishwa Patel Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Brown v Board of Education 10:45 2119 MO Damian Malnar Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Bitter Struggle Towards the Sticker 11:00 2120 MO Cody Robinson Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Cuban Missile Crisis 11:15 2121 MO Jody Goers Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Debate and Diplomacy: Successes, Failures, & Consequences of the Vietnam Draft Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Group Exhibits − Senior Group Exhibits A (Truman Library Whistlestop Room) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2201 MO Logan Sterling & Samantha Maloney Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Little Rock Nine 09:15 2202 MO Shelby Jones & Katherine McNeal Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Debate and Diplomacy: Order Number 11 09:30 2203 MO Drew Hartley & Eric Rothmier Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Alamo & the Texas Revolution 09:45 2204 MO Nathan Podjenski & Chris White Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski JFK Assassination 10:00 2205 MO Alyssa Hicks & Olivia Gholson Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Debate Over Pearl Harbor 10:15 2206 MO Danielle Messick & Brianne Dye Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Vietnam War and Draft: Successes, Failures, and Consequences 10:30 2207 MO Megan Lindemann & Briana Comer Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Dred Scott: Debate, Diplomacy in American History 10:45 2208 MO Eli Wallace & Remi Rocha South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Gay Rights: Coming out in History 11:00 2209 MO Ethan Ford & Hailey Kuhn Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Jews v Romans at Masada 11:15 2210 MO Anna Brooks & Savanna Rasmussen Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Group Exhibits − Senior Group Exhibits B (Truman Library Whistlestop Room) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2211 MO Jonathan Thompson & Trevor Remington South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks The Red Scare: The Anti−Communist Controversy 09:15 2212 MO Jessica Montgomery & Julia Montgomery Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Indian Boarding Schools 09:30 2213 MO Nick Jenness & Jackson Triplett Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Saving an American Legacy: The College Football Injury Crisis of 1905 09:45 2214 MO Austin Wakeman & Christian Balmer Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The American Militia Movement 10:00 2215 MO Tyler Casey & Ashton Rhodes Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Battle of Gettysburg 10:15 2216 MO Kean Horgan & David Stober Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Irish Republican Army: Terrorist or Freedom fighters 10:30 2217 MO Jessica Gomez & Santina Leone Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Haymarket Riot and Knights of Labor 10:45 2218 MO Jordan Williams & Tyler Ray Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski TVA & WPA: A Debate over the New Deal 11:00 2219 MO Kirsti Owings & Kassandra Whitworth Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Jazz 11:15 2220 MO Patricia Pampolina & Megan Armstrong United States and Soviet Diplomacy and the U−2 Incident Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Individual Documentary − Room 018 (Independence Academy) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 11:15 2301 MO Amanda Stroud Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Desegregation of Baseball 11:30 2302 MO Haley Ferguson Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Like a Fire Bell in the Night: The Missouri Controversy and Compromise 11:45 2303 MO Anna Juarez Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Mexican Immigration to US 12:00 2304 MO Brigid Burroughs Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly The Noble Experiment: A Spotlight on the Moonshine Days 12:15 2305 MO Nicole Hosack Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The 1960's and 70's: America's Journey through Counter Culture 12:30 2306 MO Eric Jurgeson Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Nation Building Under Siege: The Mission that Changed Foreign Policy 12:45 2307 MO Sean Hembree Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski I Am an American Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Group Documentary − Room 018 (Independence Academy) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2401 MO Taylor McDaniel & Rachael Padley Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Stonewall Riots and the Gay rights movement 09:15 2402 MO Shayna Roush & Jessica Myers Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Debate over Rock & Roll 09:30 2403 MO Samantha Tallant, Kate Wohler & Grace Bunton Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Kansas City Schools Desegregation: It's Not What You Expected 09:45 2404 MO Zac Hardwick & Landon Wike Rockhurst High School Scott Reagan Two paths to freedonm: Martin Luther King vs Malcolm X 10:00 2405 MO Katelyn Brown & Allie Boese Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly He Loosened the Bricks: How Ronald Reagan's Diplomacy Moved the World 10:15 2406 MO Payton Reid & Jakoby Swanson South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks The Persian Gulf War: Meddling with the Middle East 10:30 2407 MO Ryan Hrinya, James Stites & Tommy Webster Pembroke Hill School Dan O'Connell Amistad: The First Civil Rights' Case 10:45 2408 MO Casey Jones, Tanner Prendergast & J.D. Stehwien Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Dropping the Diplomacy: The Hiroshima Bombing 11:00 2409 MO Hunter Meacham & Emerson Hodes Rockhurst High School Scott Reagan Negro Leagues Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Individual Performance − WHDC Press Room (Truman Library) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 11:30 2501 MO Dani Robinson Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Not a Slave Anymore 11:45 2502 MO Haley Brown Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly "Rights of Man?" or Human Rights: The United Nations Human Rights Commission 12:00 2503 MO Riya Mehta Pembroke Hill School Dan O'Connell The Forgotten War 12:15 2504 MO Zoe Honeck Pembroke Hill School Dan O'Connell The Missouri Compromise of 1820: The Great Debate 12:30 2505 MO Chris Morgan South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks The Dred Scott Decision: Bravery Against Slavery Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Group Performance − Room 002 (Independence Academy) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 11:30 2601 MO Meranda Dooley & Katie Corum South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Sedition Act of 1918: The Obsession With Supression 11:45 2602 MO Jordan Kaster & Kamuela Dietiker Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Treaty of Versailles Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Individual Website − WHDC Room F (Truman Library) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2701 MO Josh Banago Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Nixon to China: The Week That Changed the World 09:15 2702 MO Jaeger Zwygart Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Debate over Socrates' Teachings 09:30 2703 MO Kyle Rieger Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Brown vs. Board of Education: Earl Warren's Case 09:45 2704 MO Leslie Pierce Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Child Labor in England 10:00 2705 MO Joel Seaton Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Brown vs. Board of Education 10:15 2706 MO Tommy Zidar Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Wagner Act: Revolutionizing the Unions 10:30 2707 MO Alex Bales Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Cuban Missile Crisis: Decide or Bust 10:45 2708 MO Abby Schott Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Hollywood Revealed: A Century of Censorship 11:00 2709 MO George Lester Rockhurst High School Scott Reagan Scopes Monkey Trial 11:15 2710 MO Alex Johnson Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Lincoln Douglas Debates 11:30 2711 MO David Crow South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Brown vs. Board of Education: The Fight Against America, For America Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Individual Website − WHDC Room G (Truman Library) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2712 MO Ryan McAnany Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Bleeding Kansas: Unpopular Sovereignty 09:15 2713 MO Robert Hayden White Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Debate over the Constitution 09:30 2714 MO Andrew Kramer Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Atomic Bomb: The Dawn of Nuclear Warfare 09:45 2715 MO Kathy Fisher South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Exorcisms: The Fight for Acceptance 10:00 2716 MO Brooks Kimmis Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Conflicts and Effects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 10:15 2717 MO Briek Pauwels Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The 18th Amendment 10:30 2718 MO Nicholas Nelson Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Two Countries, 444 Days, One Diplomatic Rupture 10:45 2719 MO Zoe Pixler Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Striking a Chord in History: The Debate of Explicit Labels 11:00 2720 MO Matt McAuliffe Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Scopes Monkey Trial: A Debate of Religion and Science 11:15 2721 MO Zach Linberg Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Martin Luther & the Protestant Reformation 11:30 2722 MO Garrett Ruskamp Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Closest Call in History Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Individual Website − WHDC Room H (Truman Library) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2723 MO Andrew Hatfield Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Deliberation of the Founding Fathers 09:15 2724 MO Daniel Ohlhausen Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly The Borders of Immigration 09:30 2725 MO Will Seabaugh Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Gov vs. PATCO 09:45 2726 MO Jordan Clark South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Gun Control: The Second Amendment Under Fire 10:00 2727 MO Glen Bradley Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Hetch Hetchy: Conservation versus Preservation 10:15 2728 MO Jessica Van Horn Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski The Energy Crisis 10:30 2729 MO Brian Fosselman Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Hawaiian Heist: The American Acquisition of Hawaii 10:45 2730 MO Murron Paeth Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Capital Punishment: Death in the Palm of Our Hands 11:00 2731 MO Ross Byers Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Failure of Diplomacy in the War of 1812 11:15 2732 MO Charlie Laird Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore The Reagan−Gorbachev 1985 Geneva Summit 11:30 2733 MO Jazmine Goodlow Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 11:45 2734 MO Reagan Ginther Rockhurst High School Chris Elmore Yalta: The Big Three Debate the Future of the World Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Group Website − Institute Office (Truman Library) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2801 MO Marissa Nickles & Celeste Cruz Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Truman Fires MacArthur 09:15 2802 MO Kelsey Barnes, Madison Bullock & Erin Martin South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Animal Experimentation: Hurting and Healing 09:30 2803 MO Van Nguyen & Kyle Finley Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski My Lai Massacre 09:45 2804 MO Jordan Dollar & Hillary Moore Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Lincoln & Douglas and the Debate over Slavery 10:00 2805 MO Kylie Stottlemyre & Cole Jones Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Ku Klux Klan 10:15 2806 MO Tyler Richards & Connor Deiparine Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly Webster−Hayne Debate: Establishing Dominance as a Government 10:30 2807 MO Darian Emmett, Josh Ritter & Josh Sparks Liberty Junior High School Inga Nordstrom−Kelly The Mormon War: Cause and Effect of Missouri Executive Order 44 10:45 2808 MO Jordan Nazario, Paul Spring, Matthew Luczak & Trenton Little South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Magna Carta: Creating an Empire 11:00 2809 MO Halley Fowler & Haley Lewis Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Brown v Bd of Education 11:15 2810 MO Nick Martin & Jordan Scheel Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Black Death 11:30 2811 MO Donnie Andrick & Bailey Elliott Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Jesse James Senior Round 1 Competition Schedule for Senior (9−12) Group Website − WHDC Education Office (Truman Library) Time Entry State Students School, Teacher(s) Title 09:00 2812 MO Jackson Weeks & Steven Wood Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Nuremburg Trials 09:15 2813 MO Trevor Burger & Ian Bush Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Child labor in Victorian Europe 09:30 2814 MO Rebekah Lowrey & Kristen Parsons Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Aboriginal Children Slavery 09:45 2815 MO Jayla Coleman & Alexis Pulliam Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Mikhail Gorbachev: Glasnost and Perestroika 10:00 2816 MO Kyle Knudsen & Ben Parker South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Brown Vs. The Board Of Education: Better Education for African Americans 10:15 2817 MO Rachel Green & Brett Watkins Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Guerrilla Warfare in Missouri During the Civil War 10:30 2818 MO Bria Nunes & Zach Pearce Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Executive Order 9981 10:45 2819 MO Zac Clark & Logan Summers Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Three Mile Island and the Debate over Nuclear Energy 11:00 2820 MO Selina Marshall & Hannah Logan Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 11:15 2821 MO Taylor Carmer & Kelsi O'Neill Blue Springs High School Dacia Rzchowski Title IX and Equality in Women's Sports 11:30 2822 MO Sarah Bonnot & Maddie Bowlin South Valley Junior High School Carrie Sparks Birth Control: The Power of Choice