JUNIORS 

 

Junior Individual Exhibit 

First Place 

  Grace Abbott: Turning Child Labor Around 

Ansley Rowan 

Rock County High School, Mills 

Clisty Taylor, Teacher 

Second Place 

Finders Keepers: The Plane that Helped Change the Outcome of The Pacific theater 

Maxwell Whitaker 

Ralston Middle School, Ralston 

Kory White, Teacher 

  

Junior Group Exhibit 

First Place 

Hereford Cattle: A Great Brand 

Ada Norman and Amelia Betson 

Crawford High School, Crawford 

Moni Hourt and Nathan Kackmeister, Teachers 

Second Place 

The Rain Didn't Follow the Plow 

Ben Norman, Neleigh Gortsema, and Skyler Edelman 

Crawford High School, Crawford 

Nathan Kackmeister and Moni Hourt, Teachers 

  

Junior Individual Performance 

First Place 

Grace Fryer: A Radium Girl and her Trials & Tribulations to Success 

Collyns Stout 

St. Rose of Lima School, Crofton 

Ginger Schieffer, Teacher 

Second Place 

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - How Standing up for Justice Changed the World 

Noah Metschke 

Johnson-Brock Public Schools, Auburn 

Nicole Lade, Teacher 

  

Junior Group Performance 

First Place 

"The Night of Terror": Fight in the Occoquan Workhouse 

Addison Volker, Quinlee Sayer, and Marleigh Behrends 

Johnson-Brock Public Schools, Johnson  

Nicole Lade, Teacher 

Second Place 

How the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Changed the World 

Paul Denny, Keith Munnu, and Maxwell Hasenohr 

Ainsworth Middle School, Ainsworth 

Nichole Flynn, Teacher 

  

Junior Individual Documentary 

First Place 

Henry Ford’s Assembly Line: The Turning Point in Mass Production 

Raegan Skibinski 

Loup Ciy High School, Loup City 

Kim Henry and Janet Kuszak, Teachers 

Second Place 

Seize the Day: How the Newsboy Strike of 1899 Created a Turning Point for American Labor 

Adam Gabel 

Gabel Learning Lab, Lincoln 

Jodi Gabel, Teacher 

  

Junior Group Documentary 

First Place 

Injectable Ingenuity: How Injectable Insulin Saved Countless Type One Diabetic Lives 

Drake White and Lilly Dorman 

Lourdes Central Catholic School, Nebraska City 

Wendi Buggi, Teacher 

Second Place 

9/11 Aftermath Changes National Security Forever 

Isabel Schizas, Brandon Schnitzer, and Annastyn DuVal 

Lourdes Central Catholic School, Nebraska City 

Wendi Buggi, Teacher  

  

Junior Individual Website 

First Place 

Pearl Harbor: Turning Farming into Food Assistance 

Alyza Ammon 

Rock County High School, Bassett 

Clisty Taylor, Teacher 

Second Place 

Honest Abe: The Fight for Racial Equality 

Emily Borer 

Lourdes Central Catholic School, Nebraska City 

Wendi Buggi, Teacher 

  

Junior Group Website 

First Place 

The March on Washington 

Gabrielle Schanbacher, Liliana Lira, and Riley Weyers 

Ralston Middle School, Omaha 

Kory White, Lynn Behounek, and Mindy Podraza, Teachers 

Second Place 

Title IX: The Importance of Women’s Sports 

Madison Weber and Maggie Stork 

Platteview Central Junior High School, Springfield 

Andrew Soneson, Teacher 

  

Junior Historical Paper 

First Place 

Give Earth A Chance: Earth Day's Critical Role in the Environmental Revolution 

Katelyn Melvin 

Johnson-Brock Public Schools, Johnson 

Mitch Roberts, Teacher 

Second Place 

The California Gold Rush 

Aarv Patel 

Bellevue Mission Middle School 

Brent Myers and Joanna Beranek, Teachers 

  

SENIORS 

  

Senior Individual Exhibit 

First Place 

The Invention of the Nuclear Bomb 

John Householder 

Lincoln Southeast High School, Lincoln 

Noa Craft, Teacher 

Second Place 

The Never Ending Battle of Greasy Grass 

Hunter Owens 

Crawford High School, Crawford 

Moni Hourt and Nathan Kackmeister, Teachers 

  

Senior Group Exhibit 

First Place 

The Devils Rope 

Miranda Betson, Treye Gibbons, Teague Edelman 

Crawford High School, Crawford 

Moni Hourt and Nathan Kackmeister, Teachers 

Second Place 

Homesteading: A Contradictory Turning Point in History 

Garett Tollman and Tomi Reid 

Crawford High School, Crawford 

Moni Hourt and Nathan Kackmeister, Teachers  

   

Senior Individual Performance 

First Place 

Sybil Ludington: War Hero Who Turned the Tides of the American Revolution 

Amelia Meyers 

Crete High School, Crete 

Melissa Frans, Teacher 

 

 Senior Individual Documentary 

First Place 

Sparking the Atomic Age: The Manhattan Project & its Legacy 

Kyan Harwood 

Lincoln Southeast High School, Lincoln 

Noa Craft, Teacher 

Second Place 

Constructing the Transcontinental Railroad: A Turning Point In American Engineering 

Ethan Gabel 

Gabel Learning Lab, Lincoln 

Jodi Gabel, Teacher 

  

Senior Group Documentary 

First Place 

The Whiskey Rebellion: A Revolt on the Western Frontier 

Elijah Mulliner, Jacob Langhorst, Adam Drayton, and Jackson Figard 

Lincoln Southeast High School 

Noa Craft, Teacher 

Second Place 

“From Poverty to Philanthropy”: Dolly Parton and the Turning Point of Music 

Morgan Rademacher and Tayler Obermiller 

Loup City High School, Loup City 

Kim Henry and Janet Kuszak, Teachers  

  

Senior Individual Website 

First Place 

“From American Citizen to War Enemy”: Turning Point for Japanese Americans during World War II 

Jaymeson Gappa 

Loup City High School, Loup City 

Kim Henry and Janet Kuszak, Teachers 

Second Place 

The Tennessee Valley Authority: How George Norris Turned the Lights On 

Abigail Blomstedt 

Johnson-Brock Public Schools, Cook 

Daniel Gossman, Teacher 

  

Senior Group Website 

First Place 

The Ride to Adoption: How the Orphan Train Movement Laid the Tracks to the Foster Care System 

Grace Augustyn and Kaily Kurtzhals 

Loup City High School, Loup City 

Kim Henry and Janet Kuszak, Teachers 

Second Place 

Dropping Like Flies 

Yadriel Colindres Fonseca, Tom Tran, and Ashlin George 

Hastings High School, Hastings 

Ann Mays, Teacher 

  

Senior Historical Paper 

First Place 

McCarthyism and the Birth of the Modern Culture War 

Annabelle Carney 

Mercy High School, Omaha 

Josh Riesberg, Teacher 

Second Place 

The Salem Witch Trials and the New American Justice System 

Lillie Schlake 

Lincoln Southeast High School, Lincoln 

Noa Craft, Teacher 

 

SPECIAL PRIZES  

  

NEBRASKALand FOUNDATION 

  

Junior Division 

First Place 

Junior Group Exhibit 

The Pony Express and the Dawn of Rapid Communication 

Addison Pearson and Luci Belt 

G Stanley Hall Elementary School, Omaha 

Amy Diegel, Teacher 

Honorable Mentions 

Junior Group Performance 

Driving the Golden Spike: Union Pacific's Turning Point in Connecting Coasts 

Carmella Cicirello, Creighton Ream, and Isla Buss 

G Stanley Hall Elementary School, Omaha 

Amy Diegel, Teacher 

AND 

Junior Group Exhibit 

The Need for 9-1-1 

Ayla Ronnebaum, Evelynn Rohrer, Lena Gropp, and Molly McMurray 

Crete Middle School, Crete 

Melissa Frans, Teacher 

  

Senior Division 

First Place 

Senior Group Exhibit 

Homesteading: A Contradictory Turning Point in History 

Garett Tollman and Tomi Reid 

Crawford High School, Crawford 

Moni Hourt, Teacher 

Honorable Mentions 

Senior Group Website 

The Ride to Adoption: How the Orphan Train Movement Laid the Tracks to the Foster Care System 

Grace Augustyn and Kaily Kurtzhals 

Loup City High School, Loup City 

Kim Henry, Teacher 

AND 

Senior Individual Exhibit 

Mildred Brown's Activism 

Savannah Paisley 

Cambridge High School, Cambridge 

Austin Buckley, Teacher 

 

Behring Teacher of the Year Award 

  

Junior Division 

Teacher from Bellevue Mission Middle School 

Brent Myers 

 

Senior Division 

Teacher from Ralston High School 

Shane Adams