Colorado Springs Pikes Peak Regional History Day Competition Results
Junior Division
1 Junior Group Documentary Sydney Howell: Kaylee Long “Fighting for Equal Rights: Women's Suffrage Movement in America” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
2 Junior Group Documentary William Bergmann: Lance Anderson “The Black Panther Party: A Movement for Color and Courage” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
3 Junior Group Documentary Xavier Pethtel: Karusso Rosales “The Winter War: Breakout of Barbarossa” Sabin Middle School
4 Junior Group Documentary Ben Parker: Oliver Hayes “The Undeclared War” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
1 Junior Group Exhibit Clara Park: Gianna Guarnera “Unethical Eugenics: The Angel of Death” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
2 Junior Group Exhibit Jeremiah Craig: Maddie Cump, Kendall Gouner “The 1936 Olympics: How America Changed the Games” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
3 Junior Group Exhibit Morgan Scarsbrook: Hannah Hermann “The Conflicts and Compromises of the Creation of the U.S. Constitution” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
4 Junior Group Exhibit Katrina Weiskircher: Analeigh Haines, Mia Bickerstaff “The Battle of Hastings” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
1 Junior Group Performance Alyssa Murphy: Kathryn Gross, Emme Thompson “"To War or Not to War, That is the Quasi-tion"” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
2 Junior Group Performance Sadie Nelson: Taylor Gorbett, Tahiyanna McFall “Rosa Park's Refusal To Compromise her ideas” Falcon Middle School
3 Junior Group Performance Aiden Gaugh: Chloe Luis, Abrianna Gonder “Conflict and Compromise: Abraham Lincoln and Slavery” Falcon Middle School
1 Junior Group Website Ryan Keller: Tyler Campbell “French and Indian War: The Trailhead to the American Revolution” Falcon Middle School
2 Junior Group Website Anthony Stackle: Caisen Bowers, Danielle Bernhart “Emancipation Proclamation” Divine Redeemer
1 Junior Individual Documentary Jack Shimon: “Burma's Uprising of 1988: A Country is Only as Strong as Its Leaders” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
2 Junior Individual Documentary Rachael Johnson: “The Great Emu War: A War Against Giant Birds” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
3 Junior Individual Documentary Connor McDermott: “Propaganda's Affect in the Cold War” Divine Redeemer
1 Junior Individual Exhibit Brandt Bane: “The Paris Peace Accords: Conflict Caused by Compromise” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
2 Junior Individual Exhibit Ella Reed: “The Road to School Integration” The Classical Academy
3 Junior Individual Exhibit John Cinnamon: “The Birth of a Nation” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
4 Junior Individual Exhibit Chandler Wilburn: “A Miracle in the Holy Land: Conflict and Compromise in the Six-Day War” The Classical Academy
1 Junior Individual Performance Thomas Fry: “Freezing Point: How Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev Ended the Cold War” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
2 Junior Individual Performance Adyline Poirson: “The Christmas Truce of 1914: An Unforeseen Compromise during WWI” The Classical Academy
3 Junior Individual Performance Amelia Chavez: “Sojourner Truth; a Friend of a Friend” North Middle School
4 Junior Individual Performance Ansleigh Groth: “Mary Queen of Scots: Her Life” North Middle School
1 Junior Individual Website Rylee Gagliardi: “Conflicts and Compromisrs of Tuberculosis Patients Moving to Colorado” Falcon Middle School
2 Junior Individual Website Gary Cameron: “Hadrian's Wall: Conflict Leads to Compromise” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
3 Junior Individual Website Erick White: “Nuts!: How Holding Bastogne Changed the Course of History” Sabin Middle School
4 Junior Individual Website Jacob Limb: “Technology in the Cold War” Divine Redeemer
1 Junior Paper Ben Ladau: “The Debates that Changed the View on the Physical Universe” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
2 Junior Paper Chay Buchholz-Guerrero: “Cuban Missile Crisis” North Middle School
3 Junior Paper Elena Phillips: 1005 “The Antarctic Treaty” Lewis-Palmer Middle School
4 Junior Paper Denise Rodriguez: “Cinco De Mayo” Divine Redeemer
Senior Division
1 Senior Group Documentary Maren Busath: Caroline Bushnell, Brenna Locke “The Salem Witch Trials: A Black Mark on American History” Palmer Ridge High School
2 Senior Group Documentary Cole Jackson: Paige Alsup “The Compromise of 1850: A Final Attempt for Peace” Palmer Ridge High School
3 Senior Group Documentary Benjamin DuLaney: Ashton Epstein “Chemical Weaponry World War One” Lewis-Palmer High School
4 Senior Group Documentary Emily Ropeter: Dean Manhire, Alex McCoy, Will Kroeker “WWI: Christmas Truce” Liberty High School
1 Senior Group Exhibit Christa Vogt: Alexandra Alvarado, Emma Michaux, Megan Engesser, Rachel Ingram “Jesse Owens” Colorado Springs Christian School
2 Senior Group Exhibit Tyler Crow: Haley Carlson “Granada Relocation Center: Betrayal and Resolution of Japanese-American Civil Rights in Camp Amache” Lewis-Palmer High School
3 Senior Group Exhibit Mary Means: Meagan Pattillo “The Ludlow Massacre” Palmer Ridge High School
4 Senior Group Exhibit Johan Barstad: Benjamin Biegler “The Blockade of Charleston Bay” Colorado Springs Christian School
1 Senior Group Performance Margy Schueler: Ellie Schueler “The Compromise of 1790: The Dinner Table Bargain” Palmer High School
2 Senior Group Performance Rachel Xu: Kriz Van Der Merwe, Daniella Ferrante, Miranda Hauke, Braden Arnold “The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902” Palmer Ridge High School
1 Senior Group Website Chloe Robyn: Amanda Munger “Conflict on the Water: Exxon Valdez and Hazardous Waste Afloat” Liberty High School
2 Senior Group Website Riley Jones: Tessa Rothwell “Bloody Mary: The Catholic Queen Who Refused to Compromis” Palmer Ridge High School
3 Senior Group Website Emma Kerr: Sydney Chytka “Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World” Palmer Ridge High School
4 Senior Group Website Benjamin Sosa: Dominic Garza, Andrew Swankowski “Undermining Hitler: The Polish Resistance” Palmer High School
1 Senior Individual Documentary Ty’esha Lockyer: “The Disney Strike of 1941” Colorado Springs Christian School
2 Senior Individual Documentary Evan Crocker: “The El Salvadoran Civil War” Lewis-Palmer High School
3 Senior Individual Documentary Aadi Nashikkar: “Ignored Genocide: Conflict and Compromise Leading to the Liberation War and the Birth of Bangladesh” The Colorado Springs School
3 Senior Individual Documentary Madeline Kunstle: “Rwanda: 100 Days of Horror” The Colorado Springs School
1 Senior Individual Exhibit Dorsey Bailey: “Lewis Hine: A Creative Solution to Child Labor” Lewis-Palmer High School
2 Senior Individual Exhibit Parker Johnson: “The War of the Bucket” Palmer Ridge High School
3 Senior Individual Exhibit Nathan Allen: “French and Indian war” Lewis-Palmer High School
4 Senior Individual Exhibit Marina Gustafson: “The Salem Witch Trials” Lewis-Palmer High School
1 Senior Individual Performance Zoe Knutsen: “Roosevelt's Hail Mary: Presidential Interference Saves American Football” Palmer Ridge High School
1 Senior Individual Website Rally Thiessen: “The Abnormal Ambassadors: How Three Young Girls Tranformed Women’s Education In Japan” Lewis-Palmer High School
2 Senior Individual Website Boone Blake: “Reagan and Gorbachev's Cold War Compromises” Palmer Ridge High School
3 Senior Individual Website Doan Tran: “The Vietnam War and Its Compromise” Colorado Springs Christian School
4 Senior Individual Website Heather Hatch: “Norway's Resistance to Nazi Germany” The Colorado Springs School
1 Senior Paper Cat Klomp: “The Treaty Of Versailles” Lewis-Palmer High School
2 Senior Paper Jackson Ferguson: “Oregon Territory Dispute: British and American Conflict and Compromise” Lewis-Palmer High School
3 Senior Paper Selena Mendez: “Margaret Sanger and Her Fight for Birth Control” Palmer High School
4 Senior Paper Aidan Euler: “King Leopold II and Horrors of the Congo Free State” Palmer Ridge High School