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National Contest Winners 2010

Team Washington performed spectacularly well at the 2010 National History Day contest, with 15 students either placing in the top 14 in the country or winning a special award. As if that weren't enough, Sequim Middle School's Tricia Billes was named the 2010 PBS Teacher of Merit, one of the highest national honors bestowed on a history teacher!

Second

Nathan Maris, International Community School, Senior Individual Documentary,

Third

Abby Burlingame and Ceri Riley, International Community School, Senior Group Performance

Sixth

Sarah Sadlier, Charles Wright Academy, Senior Individual Exhibit

James Reis and Wesley Gilchrist, Sequim Middle School, Junior Group Exhibit

Seventh

Heni Barnes, Coupeville Middle School, Junior Individual Documentary

Ana Kirichuk and Jessica Jin, International Community School, Senior Web Site

Eleventh

Kalin Goss, Junior Individual Documentary, Northshore Junior High

Samantha Larson, Senior Individual Documentary, Kentwood High School

Twelfth

Cassie Bliley, Brittany Beaudoin & Hayley McCarthy, Wy'East Middle School, Junior Group Performance

Junior Outstanding State Award

Heni Barnes, Coupeville Middle School

Senior Outstanding State Award

Ana Kirichuk and Jessica Jin, International Community School

Immigration History Award

Maddy Schei and Emily Najar, Stanwood High School

Naval History Award

Maddy Schei and Emily Najar, Stanwood High School

Legacy Award

Nathan Maris, International Community School


Washington State Contest Winners 2010

1st place:

Kalin Goss, Junior Individual Documentary, Modern Art - Visual Statement of Belief, Bothell, WA, Northshore Junior High

Annalisa Castelli, Ryan Vogt & Alison Cantarano, Junior Group Documentary, Apollo 11: Bringing Space Into Reach, Everett, WA, Explorer Middle School

Maia Lewis, Junior Individual Exhibit, The Great Seattle Fire 1889: An Opportunity to Innovate, Seattle, WA, Lake Washington Girls Middle School,

Wesley Gilchrist & James Reis, Junior Group Exhibit, Lessons of Failure: The Impact and Innovation of the Bridges of the Narrows, Sequim, WA, Sequim Middle School

Sara Durrant, Junior Individual Performance, The Invention of Red Moon: Impacting American Science and Forever Changing Technology in the World, Prosser, WA, Housel Middle School

Brittany Beaudoin, Cassie Bliley & Hayley McCarthy, Junior Group Performance, Sesame Street: A New Chalkboard for Education, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Peter Berge, Junior Historical Paper, Poisons That Heal, Bothell, WA, Canyon Park Junior High School

Madison Snaric, Junior Website, Galileo and the Telescope, Vancouver, WA, Frontier Middle School

Nathan Maris, Senior Individual Documentary, Blood Plasma: Dr. Charles Drew's Innovation and Its Impact on Trauma Medicine, Kirkland, WA, International Community School

Anand Raghuraman, Tian Kisch & Raluca Ifrim, Senior Group Documentary, The Transcontinental Railroad: Uniting the States of America, Redmond, WA, Redmond High School

Sarah Sadlier, Senior Individual Exhibit, The Marine Chronometer: An Innovative Solution to the Longitude Problem, Tacoma, WA, Charles Wright Academy

Rebecca Raible & Heather Biehl, Senior Group Exhibit, Empowering the People: The Bonneville Power Administration, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

Jordan Sperl, Senior Individual Performance, Constitutional Innovation: A Grand Idea and a Lasting Influence on the United States of America, Prosser, WA, Prosser High School

Abby Burlingame & Ceridwen Riley, Senior Group Performance, H4: John Harrison's Steadfast Determination to Conquer Space with Time, Kirkland, WA, International Community School

Lynette Bye, Senior Historical Paper, A Firm Foundation: Portland Cement Paves the Way to Innovation, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School,

Jessica Jin & Anastasiya Kirichuk, Senior Website, The Defibrillator: Revolutionizing the Pulse of Medical Innovation One Beat at a Time, Kirkland, WA, International Community School,

2nd place:

Heni Barnes, Junior Individual Documentary, A Wayward Journey: Innovation in Transportation Leads to the U.S. Interstate Highway System, Coupeville, WA, Coupeville Middle School

Dawson D'Almeida & Jackson King, Junior Group Documentary, The 747, the Innovation that Changed the Economics of Air Travel and Air Transport, Bringing People and Cultures Together, Coupeville, WA, Coupeville Middle School

Bill Koenig, Junior Individual Exhibit, Changing the Face of War: The Longbow, Sequim, WA, Sequim Middle School

Stephanie Ogden & Emily Gilbertson, Junior Group Exhibit, Nuclear Boom, Kent, WA, Mattson Middle School

Sam Kesala, Junior Individual Performance, The Hybrid Corn Seed: Impact on Agriculture and Economy, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Romessa Ahmed, Shika Kalevor & Neesha Godbole, Junior Group Performance, Employer Based Health Insurance: The Accident that Changed America, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Christopher Wiley, Junior Historical Paper, The Combine Harvester: Innovating Modern Wheat Farming, Impacting the Way the World Thinks About Bread, Prosser, WA, Housel Middle School

Megan Messer, Junior Website, AZT: Stopping a Killer, Woodinville, WA, Timbercrest Junior High

Samantha Larson, Senior Individual Documentary, The Final Frontier: Star Trek, an Innovation, Kent, WA, Kentwood High School

Anna Bailey & Kelsey Miranda, Senior Group Documentary, From Private to Public: Failures to Adapt the Black Ball Line Results in the Innovative Washington State Ferry System, Coupeville, WA, Coupeville High School

Mikail Dash-Green, Senior Individual Exhibit, How Bicycles Changed the World, Poulsbo, WA, West Sound Academy

Madalyn Schei & Emily Najar, Senior Group Exhibit, The Iron Chink, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

Justine Morris, Senior Individual Performance, Propoganda and Its Use in Nazi Germany Against the Jews, Port Orchard, WA, Marcus Whitman Junior High

Braydon Smith, Alana Peters & Amanda Russell, Senior Group Performance, Radio: An Innovation of Information, Prosser, WA, Prosser High School

Jacob Ziontz, Senior Historical Paper, Far Reaching Rights: An Era of Innovation in Treaty Law in Washington State that Impacted the Rights of Aborigines Worldwide, Shoreline, WA, Shorewood High School

Austin Biehl, Adam Knott & Connor Martin, Senior Website, The Polio Vaccine: Eradicating the Paralyzing Fear of the 20th Century, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

3rd place:

Josef Benzaoui, Junior Individual Documentary, The Douglas DC-3: Innovation in Aviation, Kirkland, WA, International Community School

Nathan Sjoholm, Bahari Watkins & Luis Puga, Junior Group Documentary, Dynamite: The Industrial Explosion, Renton, WA, McKnight Middle School

Madeline Bradley, Junior Individual Exhibit, Anesthesia: A New Era of Painless Surgery, Port Angeles, WA, Stevens Middle School

Kaylee Holleman & Claire Miller, Junior Group Exhibit, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: 145 Years of Compassion, Redmond, WA, Sunrise Elementary

Andrew Christianson, Junior Individual Performance, The Innovation of Aviation: Rapid Change Globle Impact, Stanwood, WA, Christianson Home School

Katie Kibota & Annie Song, Junior Group Performance, Broadway: Breaking Social Barriers Show by Show, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Jonathan Qu, Junior Historical Paper, The Germ Theory of Disease, Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High

Joshua Ervin, Junior Website, Satellites: Revolutionizing Communication by Linking the World, Redmond, WA, Sunrise Elementary

Kevin Yen, Senior Individual Documentary, J. Harlen Bretz: A Scientific Innovation, The World's Greatest Flood, Mead, WA, Mt. Spokane High School

Henry Chipman & Colby Lea, Senior Group Documentary, Sulfonamide, Bainbridge Island, WA, Bainbridge High School

Ashlyn Teather, Senior Individual Exhibit, National Parks: The Radical Idea to Preserve and Protect, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

Emma Kuhlmann & Samantha Shotwell, Senior Group Exhibit, The Protestant Reformation, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Katelyn Wynn, Senior Individual Performance, The Innovation of Higher Education for Women: A Struggle to Gain the Right to Learn, Coupeville, WA, Coupeville High School

Emily Kreifels, Boyd Wolking & Jared Sell, Senior Group Performance, Nuclear Energy: An Innovation that Radiates through History, Silverdale, WA, Klahowya Secondary School

Hillary Smith, Senior Historical Paper, A Chemist in the Kitchen: Ellen Swallow Richards' Innovative Applications of Science and their Impact on Home and Society, Sequim, WA, Sequim High School

Madison Welsh & Emiko Yamada, Senior Website, Barcodes: A Revolution in Data Capture, Shoreline, WA, Shorewood High School

4th place:

Maggie Altenhof-Long, Junior Individual Documentary, DDT: Man's Miracle, Nature's Bane, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Brian Cullinan & Julian Bacon, Junior Group Documentary, Jet Planes: Taking Off to the Future, Bothell, WA, Northshore Junior High

Meghana Noonavath, Junior Individual Exhibit, The Women's Suffrage Movement in the U.S.: Foundations of Equality, Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High

Drew Larsen & Randy Iwafuchi, Junior Group Exhibit, Atomic Bomb: Innovation to Obligation, Bothell, WA, Northshore Junior High

Quinn Rain, Junior Individual Performance, The Discovery of Anesthesia: Opening the Doors to Modern Surgery, Poulsbo, WA, West Sound Academy

Rachel Roberts & Aishwarya Nirmal, Junior Group Performance, "The 1949 Geneva Convention: An Innovation in Humanity", Kirkland, WA, International Community School

Brenden Wong, Junior Historical Paper, The X-ray: Viewing the Skeleton of History, Bothell, WA, Northshore Junior High

McKay Ashton & Taylor Gant, Junior Website, The Innovation of the Jet Engine: Impacting the Skies and Changing the World, Prosser, WA, Housel Middle School

Madeleine Folkerts, Senior Individual Documentary, A New Era of Musicality: Jimi Hendrix's Innovations of Music, Port Orchard, WA, Marcus Whitman Junior High

Tara Balakrishnan, Maya Balakrishnan, Edward Zhang & Sarah Du, Senior Group Documentary, Our Land: Preserving the American Wilderness, Redmond, WA, Redmond High School

Tomara Swanson, Senior Individual Exhibit, Red Bull: A Must or Bust, Tacoma, WA, Academy Northwest-Summit

Omar Baradi, Olukemi Olorunniwo & Seth Tegrotenhuis, Senior Group Exhibit, Communism: An Innovation in Thinking, Richland, WA, Delta High School

Megan Cook, Senior Individual Performance, Musical Theatre: Innovation with Social Influence, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Felica Edwards & Kirstin Bare, Senior Group Performance, Greenpeace: Innovation in Direct Action, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Nicole Tidwell, Senior Historical Paper, Margaret Sanger’s Magic Pill, Seattle, WA, Seattle Preparatory School

Devika Agrawal, Senior Website, Blood Groups - The Innovation That Changed The Face of Medicine, Tacoma, WA, Charles Wright Academy

5th place:

Megan Maronde, Junior Individual Documentary, The Kenny Method: Changing the Lives of Polio Victims and Impacting the Future of Rehabilitation Medicine, Oak Harbor, WA, Homeconnection

Joe Howard, Sam Howard & Ben Howard, Junior Group Documentary, The Bar Code, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Erin Lee, Junior Individual Exhibit, The Green Revolution: Saving Lives, But At What Cost?, Redmond, WA, Sunrise Elementary

Karen Ai & Elaine Wang, Junior Group Exhibit, Confucianism: Building Social Norms and Stability, Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High

Devon Bortfeld, Junior Individual Performance, "OKLAHOMA!: Impacting the Standards of Broadway Musicals", Kirkland, WA, International Community School

Madison Derksema, Darby Lowney & Olivia Mansker-Stoker, Junior Group Performance, The Shot to a Killer: The Smallpox Vaccine, Poulsbo, WA, Poulsbo Middle School

Emily Leland, Junior Historical Paper, Transition between Heliocentric and Geocentric Views, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Jonathan Aiken, Junior Website, Radar: The Silent Detector, Redmond, WA, Sunrise Elementary

Adrianna Royal, Senior Individual Documentary, Heritage and Vigilance: The Innovative History of the National Archives and Records Administration, Oak Harbor, WA, Homeconnection

Krystal Reitan & Stevie-Jean Luke, Senior Group Documentary, Disaster, Development, Discovery: The Titanic, Richland, WA, Delta High School

Rebecca Erickson, Senior Individual Exhibit, Braille, Shoreline, WA, Shorewood High School

Tyler Brewer & Maddison Bray, Senior Group Exhibit, Affirmative Action, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Julia Yen, Senior Individual Performance, Jack the Dripper, Mead, WA, Mt. Spokane High School

Lindsey House & Joann Silcio, Senior Group Performance, Equal Rights Amendment, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Langdon Wright, Senior Historical Paper, Penicillin, Marysville, WA, Academy Northwest - Marysville

Kyle Blackburn & Max Osnes, Senior Website, Germ Theory: Louis Pasteur's Innovation to Prevent Disease, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

6th place:

Karina Rayl, Junior Individual Documentary, Yosemite Land Grant, Battle Ground, WA, Cam Jr./Sr. High

Alexa Benjamin & Gillian McCormick, Junior Group Documentary, National Parks: An Innovation in Conservation, Kingston, WA, Kingston Middle School

Tessa Jones, Junior Individual Exhibit, Common Sense: Innovative Words That Sparked Revolution, Bellingham, WA, Whatcom Day Academy

Jonathan Feng & Jason Yu, Junior Group Exhibit, Nuclear Energy, Vancouver, WA, Shahala Middle School

Alyssa Foster, Junior Individual Performance, The Ancient Dr. Seuss: Shakespeare's Influence on the English Language, Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High

Anton De Leon, Zack Packer, Hannah Parish & Nikki Sharma, Junior Group Performance, Magna Carta: Charter for Change, Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High

Clara Wheeler, Junior Historical Paper, The Berlin Wall: Two Sides, One Story, Bellingham, WA, Whatcom Day Academy

Pravi Garcha & Mackenna Newmarch, Junior Website, Innovation of the Phonograph: Recording History, Kent, WA, Mattson Middle School

Trevor Cronin, Senior Individual Documentary, The Stolen Generation: The Story of the Australian Aboriginal Children, Shoreline, WA, Shorewood High School

Amy Yang & Sierra Wollen, Senior Group Documentary, The Telephone, Kent, WA, Kentridge High School

Kylie Thomas, Senior Individual Exhibit, The Wobblies: Paving a New Road for Workers of the World, Port Orchard, WA, Marcus Whitman Junior High

Morgan Belieu, Caila Fautenberry & Jaclyn Parton, Senior Group Exhibit, Title IX, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Dumit Malacon, Senior Individual Performance, Thomas Edison: Incandescence, Kent, WA, Kentridge High School

Stormy Ross & Shelby Sewright, Senior Group Performance, Zionism: Impact and Change in the Middle East, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Nicholas Wang, Senior Historical Paper, National Parks and Conservation: An American Innovation , Seattle, WA, Seattle Preparatory School

Paige Rinnert, Senior Website, Life Changing Innovations in Diabetes Care, Woodinville, WA, Leota Junior High

Animal Welfare Award

Kaylee Holleman & Claire Miller, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: 145 Years of Compassion, Redmond, WA, Sunrise Elementary

British/Irish History Award

Alyssa Foster, The Ancient Dr. Seuss: Shakespeare's Influence on the English Language, Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High

Dane Anderson, Longitude: The man and the invention that put us on the map, Richland, WA, Delta High School

Burke Museum Natural History and Culture Award

Tara Balakrishnan, Maya Balakrishnan, Edward Zhang & Sarah Du, Our Land: Preserving the American Wilderness, Redmond, WA, Redmond High School

Chinese or Chinese-American History Award

Anand Raghuraman, Tian Kisch & Raluca Ifrim, The Transcontinental Railroad: Uniting the States of America, Redmond, WA, Redmond High School

Colonial History Award

Tessa Jones, Common Sense: Innovative Words That Sparked Revolution, Bellingham, WA, Whatcom Day Academy

Jordan Sperl, Constitutional Innovation: A Grand Idea and a Lasting Influence on the United States of America, Prosser, WA, Prosser High School

E Clampus Vitus Award

Alexa Benjamin & Gillian McCormick, National Parks: An Innovation in Conservation, Kingston, WA, Kingston Middle School

First Gentleman's Award

Josef Benzaoui, The Douglas DC-3: Innovation in Aviation, Kirkland, WA, International Community School

Henry Chipman & Colby Lea, Sulfonamide, Bainbridge Island, WA, Bainbridge High School

HistoryLink.org Award

Christopher Wiley, The Combine Harvester: Innovating Modern Wheat Farming, Impacting the Way the World Thinks About Bread, Prosser, WA, Housel Middle School

Jacob Ziontz, Far Reaching Rights: An Era of Innovation in Treaty Law in Washington State that Impacted the Rights of Aborigines Worldwide, Shoreline, WA, Shorewood High School

National Archives and Records Administration Award

Adrianna Royal, Heritage and Vigilance: The Innovative History of the National Archives and Records Administration, Oak Harbor, WA, Homeconnection

National Park Service Award

Juan Rodriguez & Chad Hanus, The Whitman Massacre: An Innovation in Indian-White Relationships, Richland, WA, Delta High School

Ashlyn Teather, National Parks: The Radical Idea to Preserve and Protect, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

Preservation of Archaeological and Historic Properties in Washington State Award

Reed Middleman, National Parks: Roots of Land Preservation, Vancouver, WA, Wyeast Middle School

Jessica Maley, Elizabeth Richards, Rebecca McDonell & Annelise Osterberg, Pike Place Public Market, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

State Archivist's Award

Brian Donohue, Skyler Martens, Dominic Peretti & Zach Zilke, The Invention of Television and Its Impact Around the World, Burien, WA, John F. Kennedy Catholic High School

Tyler Brewer & Maddison Bray, Affirmative Action, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

Virginia Morris Award

Rebecca Raible & Heather Biehl, Empowering the People: The Bonneville Power Administration, Stanwood, WA, Stanwood High School

Voyages of Discovery Award

Rachel Mason, The Treasure Fleet: Not for God, Gold, or Glory, Graham, WA, Graham-Kapowsin High School

Washington State Archives Regional/Local Research Award

Katharine Butler & Kiley Pugh, Gertie's Wild Ride: the Birth and Rebith of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Poulsbo, WA, Poulsbo Middle School

Saraya Taylor, The Centralia Massacre, Mead, WA, Mt. Spokane High School

Washington State Historical Society Award

Brian Cullinan & Julian Bacon, Jet Planes: Taking Off to the Future, Bothell, WA, Northshore Junior High

Samuel Harvey & Samuel Wilkes, A Grand Innovation: Grand Coulee Dam, Mead, WA, Mt. Spokane High School

Women's History Award

Meghana Noonavath, The Women's Suffrage Movement in the U.S.: Foundations of Equality, Redmond, WA, Redmond Junior High

Emily Kreifels, Boyd Wolking & Jared Sell, Nuclear Energy: An Innovation that Radiates through History, Silverdale, WA, Klahowya Secondary School

Women's History Consortium Award

Hillary Smith, A Chemist in the Kitchen: Ellen Swallow Richards' Innovative Applications of Science and their Impact on Home and Society, Sequim, WA, Sequim High School

Lindsey House & Joann Silcio, Equal Rights Amendment, Spanaway, WA, Bethel High School

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