CSU-Pueblo announces 2014 state History Day qualifiers
Release Date: March 05, 2014
Press Release
PUEBLO – For the 20th straight year, the History Department at Colorado State University-Pueblo hosted the Southeastern Colorado History Day and announces the qualifiers to the National History Day in Colorado State Competition at the University of Colorado – Denver on May 3.
Approximately 215 students competed in this event where middle and high school students from southeastern Colorado research and create projects based on an annual theme, Rights and Responsibilities in History on Saturday, March 1 on the CSU-Pueblo campus with special awards presented to students who display excellence based on theme or specifications of awards.
The following special awards were presented to:
Best project that focuses on the 1913-1914 Southern Colorado Mine Wars and/or the Ludlow Massacre, sponsored by the United Mine Workers Association
Paper Category: Rights and Responsibilities of Company Towns Across the United States
Jenette Watkins, Pueblo West High School (PWHS)
Documentary Category: The Ludlow Massacre - The Rights of the Worker vs. the Responsibilities of the Employer
Ian Holmes, Pueblo School for the Arts & Sciences (PSAS)
Website Category: The Ludlow Massacre: Rights of the Miners Invaded
David Lichliter and Jarrett Loughry, PWHS
Best Project Overall: Rights and Responsibilities: The Ludlow Massacre and the Colorado Industrial Plan
Eric Sun, PWHS
Best Addresses/Utilizes the Steelworkers Museum of Industry & Culture sponsored by the Bessemer Historical Society
The Ludlow Massacre: The Rights of the Worker v. The Responsibilities of the Employer
Ian Holmes, PSAS
The Chicano Movement
Max Markuson DiPrince, PSAS
Best Project on Pueblo History sponsored by Historic Pueblo
Colorado State Hospital: The Shift from In-Patient to Out-Patient Care
Logan Castro, Connect
Best Project on Latino History sponsored by CSU-Pueblo Chicano Studies Department
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Struggle for Worker’s Rights
Brielle Bruce, Katelyn Martinez, Ryan Miller, and Brock Roman, Connect
Project on Colorado History sponsored by the El Pueblo Museum & Los Amigos Volunteer Organization
The Chicano Movement
Max Markuson Di Prince, PSAS
Best Project on WWII History sponsored by the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum
The Holocaust: One Man’s Actions Destroys Millions of People’s Rights
Jacob Lewis and James Gavato, Connect
Honorable Mention – Websites
Women’s Finest Hour: WWII Responsibilities
Paige Marsh and Bocote Pottrer, Connect
Honorable Mention – Documentaries
One Man, One Army, The Rights of Millions Stolen: The Killing Fields in Cambodia
Calyx Warren, Connect
Honorable Mention – Exhibits (3)
A Crusader with a Camera: Lewis Hines’ Fight for Rights
Marianna Benitez, Claire Duffee, Hunter Miller, and Cabriel Murdock, Connect
The Freedom Rides: Rides for Equality and Right, Wyatt Hunter, Connect
Salem Witch Trials when People were hanged Along with their Rights, Morgan Flores, Cecilia Montanez, and Lauren Patterson, PWHS
The following students are the winners in the Junior and Senior Divisions – Regional History Day Competition who advance to the state competition the University of Denver on May 4. The top two state qualifiers in each category (about 60 students) are invited to the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland near Washington, D. C. where they will compete with students from across the nation.
Junior Division Paper – Individuals
1st Su Lan Mair, Connect, American by Right, Jewish by Responsibility: How Immigrant Jews Created an Empire
2nd Troy Baski, Connect, The Chinese Experience in America: Striving for Basic Rights Amidst Unfair Legislation
3rd Jaren Rivera, Pueblo School for Arts and Sciences (PSAS), Operation Valkyrie: The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Senior Division Paper – Individuals
1st Eric Sun, PWHS, Rights and Responsibilities: The Ludlow Massacre and the Colorado Industrial Plan
2nd Jenette Watkins, PWHS, Rights and Responsibilities of Company Towns Across the United States
3rd Jacob Sloan, PWHS, Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre: The Workers' Fight for Rights
Junior Division – Documentary – Individual
1st Ian Holmes, PSAS, The Ludlow Massacre - The Rights of the Worker vs. the Responsibilities of the Employer
2nd Sophia Markuson DiPrince, PSAS, The Stonewall Riots: The event that launched the Gay Rights Movement
3rd Isaac Sloan, Connect, The Price of Freedom: Rights Stripped Away During Apartheid in South Africa
Senior Division – Documentary – Individual
1st Tony Sun, PWHS, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: When the United States Handpicked Rights and Responsibilities
2nd Kennedy Taylor, PWHS, The Stonewall Riot: A Seminal Event in the Fight for Gay Right;
3rd No Third Place Given
Junior Division- Documentary – Group
1st Jacob Lewis and James Gavato, Connect, The Holocaust: One Man’s Actions Destroys Millions of People’s Rights
2nd William Carver and Marcus Lucero, Connect, Eastern State Penitentiary: The Right to Isolate, The Responsibility for Change
3rd Michael Nava-Pachelo and Mathew Acosta David, Connect, The Attica Revolution: Fighting for Prisoner Rights
Senior Division- Documentary – Group
1st Reilly Spence and Hannah Taylor, PWHS, Citizens or Prisoners: Camp Amache
2nd Carmen Boren and Shanuia Roberts, PWHS, Rights and Responsibilities of Women’s Rights Activists
3rd Morgan Even, Olivia Fronmueller, and Emily Simpson, PWHS, Lewis Hine: Viewing the Rights and Responsibilities of the American Work Force through a Different Lens
Junior Division – Exhibits - Individual
1st Riley Harding, Connect, John Newton: From Slave Trader to Rights’ Protector
2nd Katharine Meeks, Connect, Downwind from Trinity: Responsibility After Nuclear Testing
3rd Morgan Hager, Connect, A Promise that Couldn’t be Kept: America’s Responsibility to Bikini Island
Senior Division – Exhibits - Individual
1st Megan Price, PWHS, Relocation in WWII: Rights of Japanese Americans
2nd Landon Ure, PWHS, The Sand Creek Massacre Rights and Responsibilities
3rd Evan Ward, PWHS, Child Labor at the Turn of the Century
Junior Division – Exhibits - Group
1st Zachary Kwitek, Owen Massey, Riley McAndres, and Neela Ropp, Connect, Bhopal: Corporation Neglects Human Rights
2nd Delaney Barela, Juliet Chi, Luke Mayes, and Brandon Samora, Connect, Dorothea Dix: Crusader for Mentally Ill Rights
3rd Connor Finley, Brighton Krasovic, Bryce Ying, and Taylor Uhlman, Connect, Rwanda: Mass Genocide Leads to Human Rights Catastrophe
Senior Division – Exhibits – Group
1st Bethany Kwitek and Annemarie Parker, PWHS, Women Take Charge to Obtain Rights and Responsibilities
2nd Cameron Brinkley, Cody Cozzolibno, Alexander Daughtery, and Michael DeNardo,PWHS, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
3rd Taryn Medina and Taylor Swatzki, PWHS, Muckrakers Pave the Way to Citizen’s Rights
Junior Division – Web Page – Individual
1st Ann Whited, Connect, Claiming the Right to Intern the Responsible: Japanese Internment Camps
2nd Juan Sanchez, PSAS, Eugenics and the Rights that were Stolen
3rd Kayla Holloway, PSAS, Women Rights in China
Junior Division – Web Page – Group
1st Bailee Phillips and Alyssa Schreiber, PSAS, Contradictions of Women’s Suffrage
2nd John Arnott and Garrett Kristan, Connect, Responsibilities of the Little Rock Nine in Gaining Civil Rights
3rd Mac Lusero and Trevor Wood, Connect, Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights, the Fight Against Organized Racism
Senior Division – Web Page – Individual
1st Bryce Hill, PWHS, When the “Fags” Fought back – the Stonewall Riots
2nd Destin Bogart, PWHS, Declaration: Process to Independent Rights
Senior Division – Web Page – Group
1st David Lichliter and Jarrett Loughry, PWHS, The Ludlow Massacre: Rights of the Miners Invaded
2nd Makala Flickinger and Hannah Walkero, PWHS, Showdown in the South: Freedom Riders Fight for the Right to Ride
3rd Braxton Bedwell, Sam Cabrera, Luke Erickson, and Ethan Hays, PWHS, Josefe Mengele
Senior Division - Individual Performances
1st Travis Romero, PWHS, In the Eyes of the Demon
2nd Meghan Kinnischtzke, PWHS, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Right to a Fair Trial
Senior Division - Group Performances
1st Sarah Didericksen, Ian Miles, and Katie Storey, PWHS, Women’s Rights
2nd Hanna Douglass, Michael Peters, Brittney Schlup, and Jourdan Snyder, PWHS, The Salem Witch Trials of 1692: Who was Responsible for Taking the Rights of the Accused?
Junior Division - Group Performances
1st Kyla Pettie and Emily Hanenberg, Connect, Responsibility of Maquiladoras to Protect the Right to Life of the Unborn
2nd Alise Gladbach and Alexandra Gutierrez, Connect, Typhoid Mary: Public Health Responsibilities Trump Civil Rights
3rd Ian Byrd, Thea Rodriquez, and Dominique Trujillo, Connect, The First Ten Amendments: A Bill that Forever Protects American Rights Against Tyranny
Approximately 215 students competed in this event where middle and high school students from southeastern Colorado research and create projects based on an annual theme, Rights and Responsibilities in History on Saturday, March 1 on the CSU-Pueblo campus with special awards presented to students who display excellence based on theme or specifications of awards.
The following special awards were presented to:
Best project that focuses on the 1913-1914 Southern Colorado Mine Wars and/or the Ludlow Massacre, sponsored by the United Mine Workers Association
Paper Category: Rights and Responsibilities of Company Towns Across the United States
Jenette Watkins, Pueblo West High School (PWHS)
Documentary Category: The Ludlow Massacre - The Rights of the Worker vs. the Responsibilities of the Employer
Ian Holmes, Pueblo School for the Arts & Sciences (PSAS)
Website Category: The Ludlow Massacre: Rights of the Miners Invaded
David Lichliter and Jarrett Loughry, PWHS
Best Project Overall: Rights and Responsibilities: The Ludlow Massacre and the Colorado Industrial Plan
Eric Sun, PWHS
Best Addresses/Utilizes the Steelworkers Museum of Industry & Culture sponsored by the Bessemer Historical Society
The Ludlow Massacre: The Rights of the Worker v. The Responsibilities of the Employer
Ian Holmes, PSAS
The Chicano Movement
Max Markuson DiPrince, PSAS
Best Project on Pueblo History sponsored by Historic Pueblo
Colorado State Hospital: The Shift from In-Patient to Out-Patient Care
Logan Castro, Connect
Best Project on Latino History sponsored by CSU-Pueblo Chicano Studies Department
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Struggle for Worker’s Rights
Brielle Bruce, Katelyn Martinez, Ryan Miller, and Brock Roman, Connect
Project on Colorado History sponsored by the El Pueblo Museum & Los Amigos Volunteer Organization
The Chicano Movement
Max Markuson Di Prince, PSAS
Best Project on WWII History sponsored by the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum
The Holocaust: One Man’s Actions Destroys Millions of People’s Rights
Jacob Lewis and James Gavato, Connect
Honorable Mention – Websites
Women’s Finest Hour: WWII Responsibilities
Paige Marsh and Bocote Pottrer, Connect
Honorable Mention – Documentaries
One Man, One Army, The Rights of Millions Stolen: The Killing Fields in Cambodia
Calyx Warren, Connect
Honorable Mention – Exhibits (3)
A Crusader with a Camera: Lewis Hines’ Fight for Rights
Marianna Benitez, Claire Duffee, Hunter Miller, and Cabriel Murdock, Connect
The Freedom Rides: Rides for Equality and Right, Wyatt Hunter, Connect
Salem Witch Trials when People were hanged Along with their Rights, Morgan Flores, Cecilia Montanez, and Lauren Patterson, PWHS
The following students are the winners in the Junior and Senior Divisions – Regional History Day Competition who advance to the state competition the University of Denver on May 4. The top two state qualifiers in each category (about 60 students) are invited to the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland near Washington, D. C. where they will compete with students from across the nation.
Junior Division Paper – Individuals
1st Su Lan Mair, Connect, American by Right, Jewish by Responsibility: How Immigrant Jews Created an Empire
2nd Troy Baski, Connect, The Chinese Experience in America: Striving for Basic Rights Amidst Unfair Legislation
3rd Jaren Rivera, Pueblo School for Arts and Sciences (PSAS), Operation Valkyrie: The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Senior Division Paper – Individuals
1st Eric Sun, PWHS, Rights and Responsibilities: The Ludlow Massacre and the Colorado Industrial Plan
2nd Jenette Watkins, PWHS, Rights and Responsibilities of Company Towns Across the United States
3rd Jacob Sloan, PWHS, Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre: The Workers' Fight for Rights
Junior Division – Documentary – Individual
1st Ian Holmes, PSAS, The Ludlow Massacre - The Rights of the Worker vs. the Responsibilities of the Employer
2nd Sophia Markuson DiPrince, PSAS, The Stonewall Riots: The event that launched the Gay Rights Movement
3rd Isaac Sloan, Connect, The Price of Freedom: Rights Stripped Away During Apartheid in South Africa
Senior Division – Documentary – Individual
1st Tony Sun, PWHS, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: When the United States Handpicked Rights and Responsibilities
2nd Kennedy Taylor, PWHS, The Stonewall Riot: A Seminal Event in the Fight for Gay Right;
3rd No Third Place Given
Junior Division- Documentary – Group
1st Jacob Lewis and James Gavato, Connect, The Holocaust: One Man’s Actions Destroys Millions of People’s Rights
2nd William Carver and Marcus Lucero, Connect, Eastern State Penitentiary: The Right to Isolate, The Responsibility for Change
3rd Michael Nava-Pachelo and Mathew Acosta David, Connect, The Attica Revolution: Fighting for Prisoner Rights
Senior Division- Documentary – Group
1st Reilly Spence and Hannah Taylor, PWHS, Citizens or Prisoners: Camp Amache
2nd Carmen Boren and Shanuia Roberts, PWHS, Rights and Responsibilities of Women’s Rights Activists
3rd Morgan Even, Olivia Fronmueller, and Emily Simpson, PWHS, Lewis Hine: Viewing the Rights and Responsibilities of the American Work Force through a Different Lens
Junior Division – Exhibits - Individual
1st Riley Harding, Connect, John Newton: From Slave Trader to Rights’ Protector
2nd Katharine Meeks, Connect, Downwind from Trinity: Responsibility After Nuclear Testing
3rd Morgan Hager, Connect, A Promise that Couldn’t be Kept: America’s Responsibility to Bikini Island
Senior Division – Exhibits - Individual
1st Megan Price, PWHS, Relocation in WWII: Rights of Japanese Americans
2nd Landon Ure, PWHS, The Sand Creek Massacre Rights and Responsibilities
3rd Evan Ward, PWHS, Child Labor at the Turn of the Century
Junior Division – Exhibits - Group
1st Zachary Kwitek, Owen Massey, Riley McAndres, and Neela Ropp, Connect, Bhopal: Corporation Neglects Human Rights
2nd Delaney Barela, Juliet Chi, Luke Mayes, and Brandon Samora, Connect, Dorothea Dix: Crusader for Mentally Ill Rights
3rd Connor Finley, Brighton Krasovic, Bryce Ying, and Taylor Uhlman, Connect, Rwanda: Mass Genocide Leads to Human Rights Catastrophe
Senior Division – Exhibits – Group
1st Bethany Kwitek and Annemarie Parker, PWHS, Women Take Charge to Obtain Rights and Responsibilities
2nd Cameron Brinkley, Cody Cozzolibno, Alexander Daughtery, and Michael DeNardo,PWHS, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
3rd Taryn Medina and Taylor Swatzki, PWHS, Muckrakers Pave the Way to Citizen’s Rights
Junior Division – Web Page – Individual
1st Ann Whited, Connect, Claiming the Right to Intern the Responsible: Japanese Internment Camps
2nd Juan Sanchez, PSAS, Eugenics and the Rights that were Stolen
3rd Kayla Holloway, PSAS, Women Rights in China
Junior Division – Web Page – Group
1st Bailee Phillips and Alyssa Schreiber, PSAS, Contradictions of Women’s Suffrage
2nd John Arnott and Garrett Kristan, Connect, Responsibilities of the Little Rock Nine in Gaining Civil Rights
3rd Mac Lusero and Trevor Wood, Connect, Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights, the Fight Against Organized Racism
Senior Division – Web Page – Individual
1st Bryce Hill, PWHS, When the “Fags” Fought back – the Stonewall Riots
2nd Destin Bogart, PWHS, Declaration: Process to Independent Rights
Senior Division – Web Page – Group
1st David Lichliter and Jarrett Loughry, PWHS, The Ludlow Massacre: Rights of the Miners Invaded
2nd Makala Flickinger and Hannah Walkero, PWHS, Showdown in the South: Freedom Riders Fight for the Right to Ride
3rd Braxton Bedwell, Sam Cabrera, Luke Erickson, and Ethan Hays, PWHS, Josefe Mengele
Senior Division - Individual Performances
1st Travis Romero, PWHS, In the Eyes of the Demon
2nd Meghan Kinnischtzke, PWHS, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Right to a Fair Trial
Senior Division - Group Performances
1st Sarah Didericksen, Ian Miles, and Katie Storey, PWHS, Women’s Rights
2nd Hanna Douglass, Michael Peters, Brittney Schlup, and Jourdan Snyder, PWHS, The Salem Witch Trials of 1692: Who was Responsible for Taking the Rights of the Accused?
Junior Division - Group Performances
1st Kyla Pettie and Emily Hanenberg, Connect, Responsibility of Maquiladoras to Protect the Right to Life of the Unborn
2nd Alise Gladbach and Alexandra Gutierrez, Connect, Typhoid Mary: Public Health Responsibilities Trump Civil Rights
3rd Ian Byrd, Thea Rodriquez, and Dominique Trujillo, Connect, The First Ten Amendments: A Bill that Forever Protects American Rights Against Tyranny
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