Kansas History Day

Junior Historical Papers

First Place: Yunmei Li, "The Great Quake: A Triumphant Tragedy in San Francisco," Marlatt Elementary, Manhattan, teacher Terry Healy, receives $100 Kansas City Area Archivists scholarship.

Second Place: Joanna Epp, "The Titanic: From Ship of the Century to Disaster of the Century," Chisholm Middle, Newton, teacher Marcia Neal.

Junior Individual Exhibits

First Place: Emily Simpson, "From Prairie to Dust to Conservation: The Story of the Soil on the Great Plains," Uniontown Junior High, Uniontown, teacher Sara Jackman, receives $100 Kansas Museums Association scholarship.

Second Place: Nick Gideon, "The 'Defence of Fort McHenry': One Poet's Patriotic Vision," Topeka Collegiate, Topeka, teacher Travis Lamb.

Junior Group Exhibits

First Place: Colby Beardmore and Bailey Evans, "Photographer Lewis W. Hine: Exposing the Dangerous World of Child Labor to Develop Protective Child Labor Laws," Topeka Collegiate, Topeka, teacher Travis Lamb, receives $200 Kansas Historical Society, Inc. scholarship.

Second Place: Lindsay Frank and Anne Stone, "Marie Curie: A Tragic Success," Ottawa Middle School, Ottawa, teacher Keith Entress.

Junior Individual Performances

First Place: Shelby Carpenter, "One Woman's Voice from the Oregon Trail: Abigail Scott Duniway's Traumatic Journey and Triumphant Fight for Women's Suffrage in the New Frontier," Topeka Collegiate, Topeka, teacher Travis Lamb, receives $100 Lawrence-Kaw Valley corral of Westerners scholarship.

Second Place: Taylor Bailey, "Typhoid Trauma," Fort Scott Middle School, Fort Scott, teacher Michelle Brittain.

Junior Group Performances

First Place: Soren Lamb and Nyalia Lui, "Unshackling the Mind of the Oppressed: Biko's Black Consciousness and the Triumphant Downfall of Apartheid," Topeka Collegiate, Topeka, teacher John MacDonald, receives $200 Kansas Historical Society, Inc. scholarship.

Second Place: Lauren Kremer, Rachel Moore, Kara Omo, and Liz Shaub, "Alicia Jurman: Triumphing Over the Tragedy of the Holocaust," Maize Middle School, Maize, teacher Vicki Vernon.

Junior Individual Documentaries

First Place: Kayla DuBois, "Dear Mr. Davis: A Family's Search for the Truth," Washburn Rural Middle School, Topeka, teacher Donna Sanders, receives $100 Kansas Heritage Center scholarship.

Second Place: Elsa Goossen, "'For Us There Is No Return': Mennonite Journeys Out of Russia," Washburn Rural Middle School, Topeka, teacher Donna Sanders.

Junior Group Documentaries

First Place: Phebe Myers, Calvert Pfannenstiel, and Anrai Richards, "'War of all Wars': The Tragedy of Chernobyl, The Triumphant Consequence of Perestroika," Lawrence Central Junior High, Lawrence, teacher Tari Perdue, receives $400 Kansas Council for the Social Studies scholarship.

Second Place: Liza Farr, Alyson Frydman, and Zoe Limesand, "Cold Blooded Murder - The Tragedy of the Soweto Uprising; A Triumph Against the South African Apartheid," Lawrence Central Junior High, Lawrence, teacher Tari Perdue.

Senior Historical Papers

First Place: Elaine Davis, "'The Jungle's Tangled Legacy,'" Seaman High School, Topeka, teacher Susan Sittenauer, receives $100 Kansas Corral of Westerners scholarship.

Second Place: Julie Scherer, "From Practically Unsinkable to the Atlantic's Ocean Floor: R.M.S. Titanic," Wamego High, Wamego, teacher Marcia Fox.

Senior Individual Exhibits

First Place: Stephanie Jian, "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Tragic Triumph for Industrial Democracy," Lawrence High, Lawrence, teacher Mike Ortmann, receives $100 Smoky Hill Museum scholarship.

Second Place: Patrick Hannah, "Lindbergh: Triumph and Tragedy," Lawrence High, Lawrence, teacher Mike Ortmann.

Senior Group Exhibits

First Place: Dillon Artzer, LeAnn Meyer, Morgan Reed, and Jarrod Simons, "A7713," Seaman High School, Topeka, teacher Susan Sittenauer, receives $200 Kansas Corral of Westerners scholarship.

Second Place: Courtney Boyd, Jessica Schoof, and Kylie Shepard, "This Little Light of Mine," Uniontown High School, Uniontown, teacher Norm Conard.

Senior Individual Performances

First Place: Timmia Hearn Feldman, "'You Have No Right To Do As You Like With Me' Harriet Jacobs: Triumph Through Oppression," Lawrence High, Lawrence, teacher Mike Ortmann, receives $100 Kansas Council of the Social Studies scholarship.

Second Place: Rebekah DeMoss, "Triumph and Tragedy in Przemysl," Uniontown High School, Uniontown, teacher Norm Conard.

Senior Group Performances

First Place: Gage McKinnis, Melissa Query, Kaity Smith, Katie Spainhoward, and Travis Stewart, "When Light Pierced the Darkness," Uniontown High School, Uniontown, teacher Norm Conard, receives $200 Kansas Association of Historians scholarship.

Second Place: Alex Boyer and Jon Samp, "Triumph and Tragedy: The Seige of Bastogne," Lawrence High, Lawrence, teacher Mike Ortmann.

Senior Individual Documentaries

First Place: Samuel Huneke, "Democracy in the Heart of Europe: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Czechoslovak Republic," Lawrence High, Lawrence, teacher Mike Ortmann, receives $100 Kansas Historical Society, Inc. scholarship.

Second Place: Sarah Swearer, "Third Time's a Charm: The Triumph of Women's Suffrage in Kansas," Hutchinson High, Hutchinson, teacher Nathan Henry.

Senior Group Documentaries

First Place: Sara Cortese, Hannah Lodwick, and Rosemary O'Malley, "'If in Barbed Wire Things Can Bloom, Why Couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.'" Lawrence Free State High, city, teacher Chuck Law, receives $400 Fort Larned Old Guard, Fort Larned National Historic Site scholarship.

Second Place: Rachel Alexander and Krystal Buchanan, "Orphan Trains: A Place to Belong," Seaman High School, Topeka, teacher Susan Sittenauer.

Bleeding Kansas Heritage Area Award
Hannah Frydman, "'Hopeful for Liberty': Clarina Nichols' Crusade for Women's Rights in Kansas," Lawrence Free State High School, Lawrence, Senior Individual Documentary

Greater Kansas City Area Scholarship Award
Kayla DuBois, "Dear Mr. Davis: A Family's Search for the Truth," Washburn Rural Middle School, Topeka, Junior Individual Documentary