JUNIORS

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Junior Individual Exhibit

First Place

 The Beeps that Built America

Hunter Lackey

Lourdes Central Catholic School, Nebraska City 

Wendi Buggi, Teacher

Second Place

Stonewall Riots of 1969

Vivian Golembiewski

Chadron Middle School, Chadron

Cathy Kaus, Teacher

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Junior Group Exhibit

First Place and National Museum of American History Exhibitor

 Solomon Butcher: Capturing the New Frontier---One Glass Plate at a Time

Miranda Betson and Garett Tollman

Crawford High School, Crawford

Moni Hourt and Nathan Kackmeister, Teachers

Second Place

Horses of Power on the Great Plains

Amelia Betson, Jenna Holmgren, and Skyler Edelman

Crawford High School, Crawford

Nathan Kackmeister and Moni Hourt, Teachers

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Junior Individual Performance

First Place

 Arbor Day: Greener Frontier in Nebraska's Environment

Addilyn Doke

Ainsworth Middle School

Nichole Flynn, Teacher

Second Place

The Pony Express: Delivering a New Frontier to the American Frontier

Brooklyn Guenther

St. Rose of Lima School, Crofton

Ginger Schieffer, Teacher

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Junior Group Performance

First Place

The Orphan Trains: Laying Down Tracks for New Frontiers

Cecilia Wortmann and Kaden Arens 

St. Rose of Lima School, Crofton

Ginger Schieffer, Teacher

Second Place

 The Coffins Rescue

Katie Neuharth and Lauren Loecker

Johnson-Brock Public Schools, Auburn

Mitch Roberts, Teacher

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Junior Individual Documentary

First Place

Federal Highway Act of 1956: Changing the Face of America

Garrett Main

Ralston Middle School, Omaha

Lynn Behounek and Mindy Podraza, Teachers

Second Place

Frontiers in Baseball: Women's Struggle For Their Place in the Lineup

Morgan Gabel

Gabel Learning Lab, Lincoln

Jodi Gabel, Teacher

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Junior Group Documentary

First Place

Jackie Robinson: Frontier of Baseball Integration

Morgan Radenmacher, Emily Peters, and Jenna Heil

Loup City High School, Loup City

Kim Henry, Teacher

Second Place

Crossing Into Space: Frontiers Crossed During the Space Race

Ezley Jones, Xonya Jones, and Hattie Hindley

Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School, Omaha

Rachel Howe, Teacher ​

 

Junior Individual Website

First Place

Farm Machinery

Will Simon

Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca Public Schools, Syracuse

Sarah Burr, Teacher

Second Place

Pikachu Virus: Friends to your End

Cillian Kerrigan

Ralston Middle School, Omaha

Lynn Behounek and Mindy Podraza, Teachers

 

Junior Group Website

First Place

Frontiers in Organized Crime: How Prohibition Shaped the Mafia

Samuel Kahl and Matthew Sorenson

Chadron Middle School, Chadron

Cathy Kaus , Teacher

Second Place

Indian Boarding School: Cultural Destruction on the American Frontier

Kaily Kurtzhals and Grace Augustyn

Loup City High School

Kim Henry, Teacher

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Junior Historical Paper

First Place and Nebraska Press Foundation Award

A New World Brought Into the Light: Christine Jorgensen

Finn Blacketer

Crete Middle School, Crete

Melissa Frans and Janet Jeffries, Teachers

Second Place

Amelia Earhart, the Pioneer of Aviation

Amelia West

Platteview Central Junior High School, Omaha

Andrew Soneson, Teacher

 

SENIORS

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Senior Individual Exhibit

First Place

Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Western Frontier

Lauren Buban

Westside High School, Omaha

Shelby Sedlacek, Teacher

Second Place

Chief Standing Bear: The Ground Breaking Debate for Native American Rights

Jacob Jones

Loup City High School, Loup City

Kim Henry, Teacher

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Senior Group Exhibit

First Place

Hip-Hop: How the Movement Defined Black America

Emma von Scheliha, Mirabelle Hesse, and Kya Branch

Lincoln Southeast High School, Lincoln

Noa Craft and Kyle Beacom, Teachers

Second Place

Alan Turing and the First Artificial Intelligence

Emily Browning and Kate Beran

Mercy High School, Omaha

Brooks Humphreys, Teacher 

 

Senior Group Performance

First Place

The Matchstick Girls

Johannah Bohling, Laney Knippelmeyer, Kinsley Oestmann, and Trinity Grant

Johnson-Brock Public School, Johnson

Daniel Gossman, Teacher

Second Place

Nicodemus: The Frontier of New Beginnings

Chole Gooden, Ryleigh Tidyman, Emma Strand, Annaka Wasenius,

and Jordan Holstein

Arapahoe Public Schools, Arapahoe

Marcia Foley, Teacher

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​Senior Individual Documentary

First Place and Michael Berg Memorial Award

The Carnival that Pioneered the NICU

Cori Barwick

Hastings High School, Hastings

Ann Mays, Teacher

Second Place

How Pathbreaking Native Doctor, Susan La Fiesche Picotte Crossed Frontiers in Nebraska History

Allison Lone Elk

Loup City High School, Loup City

Trysta Asche, Teacher

 

Senior Group Documentary

First Place

The Gold Rush: Shaping Modern California

Lincoln Cosby, Eli Allen, Asher Robinson, Evan Clark, and Jay Schneider

Lincoln Southeast High School

Kyle Beacom and Noa Craft, Teachers

Second Place

The Dark Lady of DNA: A Scientific Frontier 

Tatum Kapustka, Samantha Augustyn, and Landri Loos

Loup City High School, Loup City

Trysta Asch, Teacher 

 

Senior Individual Website

First Place

World War II POW Camps: Enemy on the Home Frontier

Jaymeson Gappa

Loup City High School, Loup City

Kim Henry, Teacher

Second Place

All American Girls Professional Baseball League: Sliding Into

the Male Dominated Frontier

Paige Stanczyk

Loup City High School, Loup City

Kim Henry, Teacher

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Senior Group Website

First Place

Striking a Change in History: Match Girls Strike of 1888

Eva Jaixen and Olivia Fitzgerald

Loup City High School, Loup City

Trysta Asche, Teacher

Second Place

 Bessie Coleman: Defeating Adversity to Create Frontiers in History

Hannah Groth and Rylie Beethe

Johnson-Brock Public School, Johnson

Daniel Gossman, Teacher

 

Senior Historical Paper

First Place and Nebraska Press Foundation Award

 Crossing Frontiers, Both Literal and Invisible with the Bracero Program

Sofia Torres-Salvador

Marian High School, Omaha

Jillian Roger, Teacher

Second Place

The Making of a Nation: The Pioneering of the US Constitution

Kaitlyn Drake

Hastings High School, Hastings

Ann Mays, Teacher

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SPECIAL PRIZES​

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NEBRASKALand FOUNDATION

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Junior Division

First Place

Junior Individual Performance

Arbor Day: Greener Frontier in Nebraska's Environment

Addilyn Doke

Ainsworth Middle School, Ainsworth

Second Place

Junior Individual Exhibit

Oh Yeah! America's Game Changing Drink

Lorelei Riva

G Stanley Hall Elementary School, Papillion

Honorable Mention

Junior Group Exhibit

Picturing the Frontier: William Henry Jackson's Yellowstone

Henry Htay and James Murry

G Stanley Hall Elementary School, Papillion

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Junior Group Website

Indian Boarding School: Cultural Destruction on the American Frontier

Grace Augustyn and Kaily Kurtzhals

Loup City High School, Loup City

 

Senior Division

First Place

Senior Individual Exhibit

Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Western Frontier

Lauren Buban

Westside High School, Omaha

Second Place

Senior Individual Documentary

How the Burlington Route Changed Lincoln

Andrew Swanson

Lincoln Southeast High School, Lincoln

Honorable Mention

Senior Individual Documentary

The REA: An Innovative Frontier That Conquered the Darkness

Alexa Tollman

Crawford High School, Crawford

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Senior Group Exhibit

The Pony Express

Elissa Kipp, Garrett Keith, Hector Estrada, and Michael Starr

Loup County Public School, Taylor

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TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD

 

Junior Division

Teacher from Crete Middle School

Janet Jefferies

 

 

Senior Division

Teacher from Crawford High School

Nathan Kackmeister