Colorado History Day 2010 Award Winners
Note: First- and second-place winners in each category and division are eligible to represent Colorado at the National History Day competition on June 13-17, 2010 at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. Third-place winners serve as alternates.
Scroll below to see the results:
Junior Individual Documentary:
1st Place: 1520, Einstein's Relativity by Henry Kamp
2nd Place: 1506, The Electric Guitar: Crank It Up! by Nate Bloom
3rd Place: 1500, The Impressionist Revolution by Brianna Jill Neumann
Junior Group Documentary:
1st Place: 1604, Jazz: The Story of America's Innovation by Nate Koch, Haidyn Harvey, and Ben Weinstock
2nd Place:1610, Corn Syrup: The Sweet Tooth Downfall by Hadley Dorn, Sophia Lattes, and Caitie Reck
3rd Place: 1612, The Flying Ambulance: Improving Medical Transportation One Helicopter at a Time by Jack Dorfman, Amie Hixon and Rachel Weiss
Junior Individual Performances:
1st Place: 1314, The Human Jungle: The Innovations of Upton Sinclair in the Meatpacking Industry by Theo Kranidas
2nd Place: 1301, Ernie Pyle: The Soldier's Soldier by Ian Farmer
3rd Place:1309, Rosie the Riveter: The Spark That Ignited The Firer of Women's Independence by Catherine Otero
Junior Group Performances:
1st Place: 1408, The New Deal, Re-shaping America by Nikolas Bridgeforth, Gabrielle Lentini, Jackson Lomis, Oliver Oglesby and Georgia Pullis
2nd Place: 1406, The Wright Stuff: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Those Underdogs by Nathan Barrett, Alex Schlegel and Cody Smith
3rd Place: 1410, I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds: The Innovation of the Atomic Bomb by Gabe Fine, Everett Graham, Andie Lerner, Tenlie Mourning and Madeline Rite
Senior Individual Documentaries:
1st Place: 2508, Communism and the Political Innovation That Defined the 20th Century by Matt Fouracre
2nd Place: 2507, Wilson's League for Peace by Ryan Atallah
3rd Place: Nikola Tessla and the War of the Currents by Nikola Maksimovic
Senior Group Documentaries:
1st Place: 2602, Norman Borlaug and His Revolutionary Shuttle Breeding Technique: An Innovative Solution to Feeding the World by Alexandra Guy, Clarissa Guy and Kaitlyn Kravhill-Voth
2nd Place: 2621, Off the Beaten Path by Enyinna Ogemdi, Francesca Lipinsky, Kayla McClelland and Angie Neslin
3rd Place: 2624, What You Can Do For Your Country: The Peace Corps by Cordelia Finley and Calla Winchell
Senior Individual Performance:
1st Place:2302, The Blues Had a Baby and They Called It Rock and Roll by Sam Miller
2nd Place: 2301, Barbie or Bust: The Innovation of the Modern Woman by Katelynn Barrett
3rd Place: 2308, Innovation of the Power of Ideas: The Liberty of Man by Abigail Godec
Senior Group Performance:
1st Place: 2403, Charles Grandison Finney: Innovations in Religion and Education that Spurred the Fight for Women's Rights by Annie O'Donnell and Ramya Palaniappan
2nd Place: 2405, Insane for Change: Women in the Asylum by Rose Irwin and Regina Johannes
3rd Place: 2402, Denim Through the Years by Rachel Libert and Elise Lovaas
Junior Paper:
1st Place: 1019, A Mixed Legacy: The Atomic Bomb by Jessica Piper
2nd Place: 1020, The Tenth Mountain Division: Turning Wartime Innovation into Peacetime Recreation by Emma Smith
3rd Place: 1002, Desalinization: "Making the Desert Bloom" by Laura Hutchinson
Junior Individual Exhibit:
1st Place: 1125, Mozart: The Peasant's Musician by Eileen Klawitter
2nd Place: 1104, A Loving Partnership: The Innovative Training of Seeing Eye Dogs by Rebecca Myli
3rd Place: 1137, Sears Roebuck Houses by Margaret Eronimous
Junior Group Exhibit:
1st Place: 1217, Skyscrapers--The Sky's the Limit by Rebecca Vickers and Hope Weinstein
2nd Place: 1200, The Civil War Needs Spurs Innovation by Joey Gavato, Vincent Parker, Steven Rastfelli and Ryan Trechter
3rd Place: 1210, Flushed Away: Plumbing and Sanitation by Sugar Gantulga, Ally Kennedy and Jackie Rivas
Junior Web Site:
1st Place: 1723, Secret Warriors: How the Navajo Code Talkers Helped Win World War II and Preserved Their Language by Sebastian McCrimmon
2nd Place: 1716, Curitiba, Brazil: Living Lightly on the Earth by Holly Ketterman and Emily Waggener
3rd Place: 1708, Penicillin by Sarah Tesfai
Senior Paper:
1st Place: 2004, Aaron Copeland: An Imposed Simplicity, the New American Music by Annaka Scheeres
2nd Place: 2010, Street Corner Art: Republican Posters and Vernacular Protest During the Spanish-Civil War by Lara Norgaard
3rd Place: 2013, AC/DC- Not An '80s Hair Band, but Electrical Innovations that Powered the World by Hannah Stekette
Senior Individual Exhibit:
1st Place: 2109, Sound Recording: Mid-Twentieth Century Innovations by Zack Wentz
2nd Place: 2102, Green Revolution: Feeding the World by Kate Rowe
3rd Place: 2112, USS Langley: The Innovation That Changed Naval Warfare by Patrick Tapp
Senior Group Exhibit:
1st Place: 2203, A Cry for Help: Innovation and Change in the Form of Birth Control by Breann Pugnetti and Chloe Thomas
2nd Place: 2213, Galileo's Telescope: A Look into the Future by Jacqueline Enriquez-Sandoval and Maddie Hughes
3rd Place: 2205, Social Equality and Natural Beauty: Central Park by Erin Iyigun and Siran Jiang
Senior Web Site:
1st Place: 2721, The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger by Ala'a Chaker
2nd Place: 2714, Steam Engine: Powering the Industrial Revolution by Tai Chen
3rd Place: 2713, Anesthesia: An Innovation in Medicine and Perspectives on Pain by Nehal Patel