Nine Decorah Middle School students have qualified for the State Finals of the National History Day, to be held in Des Moines on May 5th.
The students and their projects are:
Individual Exhibit
Tracy Kimber: Stonewall Inn Riots
Historical Paper
Luke Stock: Manhattan Project
Group Documentaries
Victoria Miller and Rylea Ranum: An Eye for an Eye
Individual Documentary
Carina Yee: Children's Aid Society
Group Exhibits
Jaden Anderson and Kalee Bigler: Loving v Virginia
Maggy Hovden and Sonja Sacquitne: Orphan Train: Riding the Rails to a New Life
Other regional participants and their projects included:
Individual Exhibits
Jerod Redenius: Scottsboro Boys: Rights to a Fair Trial
Kameron Sikkink: Jackie Robinson
Tom Knoke: Curt Flood
Zach Heine: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rachel Grimstad: Underground Railroad
Ayden Gossman: Operation Desert Storm
Alex Nesset: Birmingham 1963
Michael Bruening: SMU Football
Jarod Phillips: The First Adoption Agency
Anna Hanson: Temple Grandin
Torrian Hermanson: Justice? Prejudice?
Shaina Bakken: Fort Atkinson
Group Exhibits
Klara Thompson and Kaylee Knight: Geneva Convention
Kacie Henry and Sierra Duncan: Salem Witch Trials
Nick Kuehner and Nate Darling: Prohibition
Individual Documentaries
Cortney Holm: Eunice Kennedy Shriver: Changing Lives
Brannan Hogan: Roberto Clemente: Swinging for Rights
Erik Fadness: Chemical Weapons During WWI
Ian Smith: Cuban Missile Crisis
Michael Cook: Norman Borlaug
Rachelle Sullivan: Jane Addams and Hull House
Nathan Larson: Jessie Owens: More Than a Medal
Carston Krieg: Desegregation of Armed Forces
Group Documentaries
Maddy and Lindsey McEnaney: Roe v Wade
Caelynne Stevens and Sydney Byrnes: The Right to Fight: Women at War
Avery Dugger, Dan Willie, and Josh Nierengarten: The Berlin Airlift
Individual Performances
Abby Trewin: Harvey Milk
Vita Domnenko: Alice Paul
Individual Websites
Micala Folkedahl: Paralympics
Kiley Patrikus: Grace Hopper
James Paulson: Agricultural Adjustment
Dawson Holkesvik: Freedom Riders
Joe Nottestad: Japanese-American Internment
Group Websites
Lexie Engelhardt, Lakin Engen, and Amelia Folkedahl: Babe Didrikson
Hayley Steine and Megan Pope: Protesting the Vietnam War
Lucas Sweet and Keegan Jensen: Miranda v Arizona
Also moving on to state in the senior division are the following high school students:
Group Performance
Gara Lonning, Naomi Davidson, Kalle Solberg, Katelyn Yee, and Linnea Carlson: Night of Terror: The Battle for the Ballot