Six Decorah Middle School 8th graders qualify for Iowa's National History Day

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Six Decorah Middle School eighth grade students have qualified for state competition of National History Day.  The state competition will be held in Des Moines on May 6th.

The students and their projects are:

Individual Exhibit
Lydia Kleckner: "Dorthea Lange: Defining the Great Depression"

Historical Paper
Sylvia Betteridge: "Wounded Knee: The Final Surrender"

Group Documentary
Brenna Betts and Kasey Thompson: "Kathrine Switzer: Running for Change"

Group Website
Abigail Hudson and Madelyn Jermier: "Babe Didrikson Zaharias: America's Golden Athlete"

Also moving on to state in the senior division are:

Group Exhibit
Leigh Balderrama and Kieran Okerstrom: "The Human Genome Project"

Group Documentary
Lydia Hayes, Clara Kittleson, and Aidan Spencer: "St. Olaf: A Small College with a Big Voice"

Other regional participants and their projects include:

Exhibits
Elizabeth Smith: "John Deere"
Marissa Foels: "Clara Barton: Red Cross"
Maria Lea: "The Triangle Factory Fire"
McKinley Lillegraven: "Orphan Train: Tracks to a Better Life"
Eric Smedsrud: "Tuskegee Airmen 'Flying to Freedom'"

Group Exhibits
Zach Devore, Shania Kelly, and Lexie Leuenberger: "Jessie Owens"
Claudia Cowie, Isabel Iverson, and Kally Peterson: "McDonald's: Marketing to Youth"

Individual Documentaries
Helen Johnson: "The 1987 Iowa Groundwater Protection Act: Turning the Tides in Iowa"
Anna Spencer: "Candy Cigarettes: Not So Sweet"

Group Documentary
Kelli Holm and Makinzie Monroe: "Trail of Tears"

Individual Websites
Ben Leschensky: "Celebrities with Disease: Lou Gehrig and ALS"
Anne Gullekson: "The Manhattan Project: How a Test Changed the World"

Group Website
Ali Graves and Ellyson Shelton: "Salem Witch Trials"