Kentucky Historical Society
KHS Announces 2012 District 6 Kentucky History Day Winners

FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 5, 2012) — Students from Campbell, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison, Kenton and Pendleton counties presented academic projects at the Kentucky Junior Historical Society 2012 Kentucky History Day District 6 contest at Northern Kentucky University in Covington on Saturday, March 24.

Kentucky History Day is part of National History Day, an annual, year-long program designed to promote teaching and learning history in America’s schools. Students in sixth through 12^th grades analyze the historical significance of certain topics and present conclusions in dramatic performances, imaginative exhibits, multimedia documentaries, websites and research papers. The theme for this year’s contest is “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.”

“Recent studies have confirmed that students who participate in National History Day outperform their non-participating peers in all subjects, not just history. They are better-prepared for college, are better writers and researchers and more confident in their abilities. Also, by researching the past, they become enthusiastic about history and its relevance to their lives today,” said Cheryl Caskey, KHS student programs coordinator.

Eight schools, six counties and 180 students participated in the District 6 contest in hopes of advancing to the state contest April 28 at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort. The top three students in each category received a medal, while all finishers in the top five received recognition and will advance to the state competition.

Winner(s) listed by name, project title, school, place and category:

Campbell County

Ben Reynolds; “Christmas Truce.” Highlands High School. Fourth place (tie), senior paper.

Harrison Swayne; “Video Games: A Revolution in the Making.” Highlands High School. First place, senior individual website.

Rocco Pangallo, Fischer Cook; “The War of the Worlds 1938.” Highlands High School. Third place, senior group website.

Allison Camm; “‘Classy’ Vaudeville.” Highlands High School. First place, senior individual performance.

Rebecca Thome, Madeline Anderson; “Harlem Renaissance.” Highlands High School. First place, senior group performance.

Max Freyberger; “Indian Independence: A New Kind of Revolution.” Highlands High School. First place, senior individual documentary.

Fayette County

Bethany Boggs; “From Olive Branches to Quill Pens: How Our Country Came to Be.” Winburn Middle School. Second place, junior paper.

Will Andrews; “The Death of a Leviathan: The Rise of Carriers Over Battleships in WWII.” Winburn Middle School. Third place, junior paper.

Aislinn Langley; “Welcome to the Jungle: Chicago’s Meatpacking Industry.” Winburn Middle School. Fifth place, junior paper.

Kathleen Yang; “Turn of the Tide: The Emancipation Proclamation of the Civil War.” Winburn Middle School. Seventh place, junior paper.

Kayla Beebout; “A Woman’s Work is Never Done: How the Lowell Mill Girls Contributed to Early Labor Reforms.” Winburn Middle School. First place, junior individual documentary.

Joanna Slusarewicz; “Respectfully Submitted, Dorothea Dix.” Winburn Middle School. Second place, junior individual documentary.

Jacob Ferguson; “It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times: The Bloody French Revolution.” Winburn Middle School. Third place, junior individual documentary.

Amelia Rogers, David Rader; “How Madeline McDowell Breckinridge’s Southern Insight & Heritage Affected the Women’s Suffrage Revolution.” EJ Hayes Middle School. First place, junior group documentary.

Ben Givens, Kevin Liao; “The French Revolution: A Civil War Caused by the French Financial Crisis.” Winburn Middle School. Third place, junior group documentary.

Anya Slepyan, Cameron Walton; “Skeletons in the Art: Danse Macabre & the Black Death.” Winburn Middle School. Fourth place, junior group documentary.

Kai Nicholls, Faith Morrison; “Revolution Gone Awry: The Khmer Rouge.” Winburn Middle School. Fifth place, junior group documentary.

Ramzi Hamdalla; “The French Revolution National Assembly 1789-1791.” Winburn Middle School. First place, junior individual exhibit.

Adil Yusuf; “Up In Flames: The True Story of the Hindenburg.” Winburn Middle School. Second place, junior individual exhibit.

Jasmine Liu; “Made In China: China’s Economic Reform.” Winburn Middle School. Third place, junior individual exhibit.

Shelby Amato; “Powerful Peace.” Winburn Middle School. Fourth place, junior individual exhibit.

Malvika Singhal; “Shay’s Rebellion: Illegal or a Necessity for Prosperity.” Winburn Middle School. Fifth place, junior individual exhibit.

Chelsea Carr; “John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry Sparked the Civil War.” Winburn Middle School. Sixth place, junior individual exhibit.

Dasha Kolyaskina, Nikki Southall; “The Attack from Within: The Sonderkommando Uprising of 1944.” Winburn Middle School. First place, junior group exhibit.

Avery Brown, Lucas Soard, Joshua Strange; “Let Me Be Brave.” Winburn Middle School. Second place, junior group exhibit.

CJ Labianca, Zachary Ross; “Royal Blood.” Winburn Middle School. Third place, junior group exhibit.

Janet Guo, Ji-Hae Kim, Samantha McGehee; “War on the 38th: The Struggle for Power in Korea.” Winburn Middle School. Fourth place, junior group exhibit.

Cici Mao, Kelly Chen; “From World Power to 15 Nation States: The Fall of the Soviet Union.” Winburn Middle School. Fifth place, junior group exhibit.

Ananth Miller-Murthy, Sameer Ahmed, Andrew Lee; “Man vs. Microbe: The Germ Theory of Disease.” Winburn Middle School. Sixth place, junior group exhibit.

Zsombor Gal, Nikita Jacobs; “What’s in the Clouds?: The Chernobyl Disaster of 1986.” Winburn Middle School. Seventh place, junior group exhibit.

Madison Wheeler; “Better than 1775 or 1812: British Invade the 1960s.” Winburn Middle School. First place, junior individual website.

Ella Jensen; “Mary Breckinridge: Frontier Nursing Service.” Winburn Middle School. Second place, junior individual website.

Natalie Fields; “Bloody Monday: The Riots That Changed Louisville.” Winburn Middle School. Third place, junior individual website.

Karina Henson; “America’s Attempt at Imperialism: William Howard Taft and His Work in the Philippines.” Winburn Middle School. Fourth place, junior individual website.

Hye Jee Kim; “Sometimes Democracy Must be Bathed in Blood: The Kwangiu Uprising.” Winburn Middle School. Fifth place, junior individual website.

Ronit Kar, Ben Xie, Nisarg Patil, Gavin Sullivan; “A More Powerful Force.” Winburn Middle School. First place, junior group website.

Daryn Smith, Meenakshi Singhal; “Charles Darwin.” Winburn Middle School. Second place, junior group website.

Angelina Shi, Olivia McCrary; “Cultural Revolution.” Winburn Middle School. Fourth place, junior group website.

Akhil Kesaraju, Rohith Kesaraju; “Building of Atomic Bomb.” Winburn Middle School. Fifth place, junior group website.

Nathan Russell; “Marvin Miller.” Homeschool. First place, senior paper.

Matthew Russell; “Integrated Circuit.” Homeschool. Fourth place (tie), senior paper.

Franklin County

Rishabh Kapoor; “Charles Darwin: The Man Who Questioned the Unquestionable.” Elkhorn Middle School. First place, junior paper.

Amera Iqbal; “Dorothea Dix and the Asylum Movement.” Elkhorn Middle School. Fourth place, junior paper.

Saisindhu Marella; “Uniting the East and West: The Two Diverse Regions.” Elkhorn Middle School. Sixth place, junior paper.

Rebecca Penn; “Niedergeschlagen (Depressed).” Elkhorn Middle School. First place, junior individual performance.

Nikitha Rajendran; “Defending Our Homeland: The Legacy of the Manhattan Project.” Elkhorn Middle School. Fourth place, junior individual documentary.

Harrison County

Jared Thomas, Joshua Graves; “How the Internet Was Made.” Harrison County Middle School. Second place, junior group documentary.

Brennan Riddell, Ross Smith; “The Gaming Revolution.” Harrison County Middle School. Third place, junior group website.

Kenton County

Katie Whitehouse; “Tennis Court Oath”. Notre Dame Academy. Second place, senior paper.

Abigail Wittmer; “Treaty of Versailles.” Notre Dame Academy. Third place, senior paper.

Ansley Sheridan; “German Revolution of 1918.” Notre Dame Academy. Fourth place (tie), senior paper.

Paige Drees; “Coca-Cola Reform.” Notre Dame Academy. Second place, senior individual website.

Peri Crush; “Independence by Salt.” Notre Dame Academy. Third place, senior individual website.

Alli Darpel, Abby Roebker, Maddie Rose, Molly Mayer, Ellie Fathman; “Germ Theory: Revolution in Medicine.” Notre Dame Academy. First place, senior group website.

Megan Sullivan, Tessa Farrar, Maddie Tierney; “The Revolution of Contemporary Art.” Notre Dame Academy. Second place, senior group website.

Kassandra Neltner; “The Cube of Influence.” Notre Dame Academy. First place, senior individual exhibit.

Amanda Macke, Maggie Flanagan; “Fashion Flip: Fussy to Flirty.” Notre Dame Academy. First place, senior group exhibit.

Abigail Martin, Laura Finke, Marie Schaefer; “The Polish Worker’s Revolution.” Notre Dame Academy. Second place, senior group exhibit.

Alli Sweitzer, Ana Calvopiña, Emma Jacobs, Bridget Stewart; “The Green Revolution.” Notre Dame Academy. Third place, senior group exhibit.

Hayley Zeis, Lily Weber, Sydney Lenhof; “A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen.” Notre Dame Academy. Fourth place, senior group exhibit.

Stephanie Hacker, Maggie McLeod; “Cosmic Conflicts: Universal Views.” Notre Dame Academy. Fifth place, senior group exhibit.

Caroline Miller, Lexie Steigerwald, Savannah Hemmer; “Pablo Picasso: Revolution in Art.” Notre Dame Academy. First place, senior group documentary.

Jessica Vogt, Erin Nurre, Caroline Krumme, Sara Borchers, Emily Bauttista; “The Invention of the Jet Engine: A Revolution in the World of Aviation.” Notre Dame Academy. Second place, senior group documentary.

Moriah Frommeyer, Sarah Gregory, Ashley Donovan, Anna Bradtmueller, Jane Rudnik; “The Eradication of Smallpox.” Notre Dame Academy. Third place, senior group documentary.

Pendleton County

Evan Hartzel; “Motocross Marvel.” Phillip A. Sharp Middle School. Second place, junior individual paper.

MiKinley Grace Lustenberg, Allison Lenox, Morgan McKinney; “Out With A Flash: How the Camera Affected Art.” Phillip A. Sharp Middle School. First place, junior group performance.

The National History Day program culminates with the national competition at the University of Maryland each June.

For more information about the Kentucky Junior Historical Society, visit www.history.ky.gov/kjhs, or contact Cheryl Caskey at 502-564-1792, ext. 4461 or cheryl.caskey@ky.gov.

-30-