CSC hosts virtual History Day

Eleven CSC employees served as judges, in addition to 10 community members. Judging coordinator and CSC Project Coordinator Kate Pope said she was pleased with the variety and quality of entries, and she appreciated the judges taking time to review the students’ projects.

The entries are archived at the following website: https://ne-wdc.nhd.org/app/showcase. To view the entries, enter the following key: 3c0b970c-acba-4170-967e-80098595c245.

Individual results are below.

Documentary

Senior Individual Documentary: 1, Grace Hopper: Computer Communicator by Tyler Kaus, Chadron Senior High School.

Junior Group Documentary: 1, Wounded Knee by Colton Made and Rhett Flack, Crawford High School; 2, Dorothea Lange by Jennalee Pinnt and Paige Slingsby, Chadron Middle School.

Senior Group Documentary: 1, FDR and His Fireside Chats by Lawrence Miller, Madison Oliverius, Stephanie Edmunds, and Tayley Streeks, Bayard Secondary School.

Junior Individual Documentary: 1, Nazi Propaganda in Film by Jaelyn Brown, Chadron Middle School; 2, Music Used in the Underground Railroad by Emmerson Landreth, Chadron Middle School; 3, War Runners by Fayt Anderson, Crawford High School.

Exhibit

Junior Individual Exhibit: 1, Carrier Pigeons by Hunter Owens, Crawford High School; 2, A Rancher’s Code by Matthew Lien, Chadron Middle School; 3, Morse Code by Carson Gibbons, Crawford High School.

Senior Individual Exhibit: Elizabeth Freidman by Alexa Tollman, Crawford High School.

Senior Group Exhibit: 1, The Night Witches by Kamden Victory and Tylea Underwood, Crawford High School.

Junior Group Exhibit: 1, Kennedy-Nixon Debate: Turning Point for Presidential Elections by Baxter Reece, Loural McCoy, Preston Kreman, and Weston Shaefer, Harrison Elementary School; 2, Papa Flash the Man Who Stopped Time by Angelina Twobulls, Jaiden Lucas, Payton Horan, and Tianna Clark, Crawford High School; 3, Sacagawea by Emma Norman and Kember Mittan, Crawford High School.

Performance

Junior Group Performance: 1, Navajo Code Talkers, Kendall Victory and Keslyn Vogel, Crawford High School.

Websites

Junior Individual Website: 1, Lewis Hine and his Pictures by Jose Obando, Chadron Middle School; 2, Thomas Edison by Cyrus Walter, Crawford High School.

Junior Group Website: 1, Bill Mauldin by Landen Oldaker, Logen Oldaker, and Taylor Kreman, Harrison Elementary School; 2, Methods of Signal during WWI by Eliu Paopao and Wesley Margetts, Chadron Middle School; 3, Fort Laramie Treaty by Dalton Norman and Ty Anders, Crawford High School.

Senior Individual Website: 1, Katyn Massacre: Communication that Prevented Justice by Thomas Kaus, Chadron Senior High School; 2, The Battle of the Chosin River Valley by Blake Hinman, Chadron Senior High School; 3, The Manhattan Project, Blaine Tewahade, Chadron Senior High School.

Senior Group Website: Communicating with Photography by Allison Owens and Kiera Brennan, Crawford High School.

Paper

Junior Individual Paper: 1, Nazi Germany by Sadona Summers, Crawford High School; 2, The Radio by Ethan Brown, Crawford High School.

Senior Individual Paper: 1, Propaganda: Creel Commission and the Swaying of a Nation by Hannah Rudloff, Sioux County High School; 2, Failed Communication Paved the Way for Student Safety by Maralee Rischling, Chadron Middle School; 3, Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator by Julie Skavdahl, Sioux County High School.

Special Awards

Great Plains Award – Wounded Knee, Junior Group Documentary, Colton Mader and Rhett Flack, Crawford High School.

Military Award – Elizabeth Friedman, Senior Individual Exhibit, Alexa Tollman, Crawford High School.

—CSC College Relations