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State Finals
SPRING 2021
Communication The Key to
in History Understanding
2021
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CONTENTS
SPECIAL AWARDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
YOUTH DIVISION ENTRIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
JUNIOR DIVISION ENTRIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Individual Documentaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Group Documentaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Individual Exhibits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Group Exhibits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Papers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Performances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Indiviual Websites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Group Websites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SENIOR DIVISION ENTRIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Documentaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Exhibits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Papers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Performances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Websites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
JUDGES AND STUDENT SPONSORS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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YOUTH DIVISION
Youth Group Documentary Youth Individual
The Story of Ella Baker: Activist and Human Performance
Rights Defender John Campbell and the Birth
Jocelyn Dubbink, Kiersten Chalupa of American Journalism
Koben Panse
The Women’s Suffrage Movement: How
Communication Was Key to Win the Vote The Life of Susan B. Anthony
Caitlin Vandermolen, Navya Bobba,
Victoria Moody
Taylor Dolbee
Winged Soldiers Youth Individual Website
Brayden Williams, Carson Meachum
Video Killed the Radio Star?
Lucila Drelles
Youth Individual Exhibit
Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Paper
Evelyn Whitworth
Sightless Reading: A Brief History of Louis
Braille and the Braille Reading System
The Word Travels Fast: The Road to
Written Language Aaron Crider
Isabella Causie
Youth Group Exhibit
Communicating Our Way to Freedom
Caitlin Watripont, Daniela Silva Korte,
Khloe King
Cracking the Code: The Battle of
Midway
Bodie Bencik, Malek Elshaarawy
Pearl Harbor’s Great Loss
Lilianna DesJardin, Olivia Lynn
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JUNIOR DIVISION
JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL
Documentary
Fred Rogers and His Influence on
Social Acceptance in America
Thomas Cullen
Hitler’s Sons of Duty
Isaac Chalupa
Nancy Wake: Secret Communications
in World War II
Leah Smith
Nelson Mandela’s Legacy
Aisha Shaik
Sleeping Beauty: A Disney Movie That
Communicated Gender Inequality
Anjali Arvind
The Downfall of Rabies
Ryeo-Won Kim
The Founding of Microsoft 2000
Brendan Dine
The Roman Army: Effective Communication
Leads to Conquest
Henry Chen
Traverse City’s Not So Haunted Past
Kathryn Clark
Victoria Woodhull: The Women Who
Set Back the Suffrage Movement
McKeiley Buron
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JUNIOR DIVISION
JUNIOR GROUP Documentary
1966 Texas Westerns Morse Code and the Telegraph
Aiden Osterhout, Gavin Ziminski, Carter Korpi, Jack Kasten, Jack Ledesma
Spencer Agawa
Purposeful Lack of Communication:
Barry Gordy: Communicating Through Miscommunication During the
Motown Music Pandemic of 1918
Ava Storteboom, Elizabeth Rzepka, Jeani Lemire, Morgan Charbeneau
Mya Panse
Rosa Parks: Communication Through Action
Communication and its Effects on the Keiry Lawandy, Luciana Rodriguez
Cuban Missile Crisis
Jordynn Dolbee, Olivia Storteboom, Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony:
Paul Rzepka, Reese Storteboom Communicating Hope to Leningrad
and the World
Martin Luther King Jr. —The Man Who Stood Ian Wesselhoff, Oliver Anderson,
Up for Equal Rights When There Weren’t Any Samuel Edmonds
Kinley Dillon, Lily Knaffla
The Black Death
Aayushi Parab, Vandana Rallabandi
The Evolution of Sign Language
Natalia Costilla, Natalie Russell
The History of the Character of James Bond
Gabe McArthur, James Rahe, Zane Socha
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JUNIOR DIVISION
Junior Individual Exhibit
Carrier Pigeons in World War One The “Book Women”: Communicating
Matthew Pokela Literacy and the Love for Books to
Those Isolated by Poverty and the
Appalachian Mountains
Communicating Change for Women:
Switzer Contributes to the Effort to Run Georgia Edmonds
Zoe DeGraaf
The Fireside Chats of President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt: Communicating to a
History of the First Telephone Nation in Crisis
Arben Gocaj Elliott Anderson
How Hamilton’s Pen Changed The Pony Express: The Social Media
the Election of 1800 of Its Day
Annie Goldkuhle Isabella Reimers
Jimi Hendrix: Racial Journey Through Music The Travail of Braille
Keon Celestine Payton Parker
Kent State Massacre
Grace Vander Hagen
NASA Project #5
Bennet Hoholik
Rosa Parks
Teagan Hall
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JUNIOR DIVISION
Junior Group Exhibit
A Ticket to the New World The Lost Battalion
Calla Porter, Ruth Johnson, Sammy Johnson Eli Valima, Gavin Vining, Will Spranger
Anasazi Paintings Titanic: When Miscommunication
Adrianna Frusti, Gwenyth Charlebois Becomes Deadly
Charli Clark, Khloe Felton
Communication Through History in War
of the Worlds Radio Hoax War of the Stray Dog
Dawson Scharer, Grayson Young, Dylan Pohlad, Jared LaMont
William Cote
Washington’s Farewell Address
Communication Through Holy Scripture Elyse Heffner, Veronika Caughran
Hussein Aljahmi, Omar Elladan
Help Signals
Abigail Raisanen, Arbesa Gocaj, Mia Nunez
How Did Communication Affect
World War II in Europe?
Aditya Kandage, Agastya Chaturvedi,
Neel Nagappala
How Helen Keller Changed The World
One Sign at a Time
Olivia Palazzolo, Tamberlyn Masinick
Nazi Anti-Semitic Propaganda
Grayson Rorick, Thomas Burfeind
The Communication and Education of
Deaf-Blind People
Abby Brownlee, Annie O’Connor,
Ruth Brownlee
10JUNIOR DIVISION
Junior Paper Nikola Tesla: A Forgotten Pioneer of
Wireless Telegraphy
60 Years of COBOL and the Woman Who
Sarbani Sengupta
Invented It: How Grace Hopper Changed
Communication in History and Its Key to Normal Minds in Abnormal Times:
Understanding Communication in United States Military
Alexandra Stern Psychiatry During World War II
JoAnn Tu
Adios Cincuenta y Cinco: The Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 Ping Pong Diplomacy: The Broken Rule that
Marlene Perez Santiago Changed US–China Relations
Abraham Zhang
Communication Through
Conspiracy Theories Soul Power Communication: A
Davian Johnson New Perspective
Yathaarth Poddar
Conquering a Bump in the Road
Maya Carlson The Culper Ring: How They Won the
American Revolution Through Undetected
Every Vote Counts: The Communication Communication
Between African Americans and the Congress
Keira Wesley
for the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lily Wielens The First American Spy Ring: How the Culper
Spy Ring Changed Our Country’s Fate and
Lack of Communication: How the Media’s the World of Espionage
Underrepresentation Impacts a Fight for
Donovan Meyer
Equality in Women’s Sports
Emma Margaron The History of Brown vs Board of Education
Brandon Jones
March of the Mill Children of 1903: The
Purpose of Conveying a Message Through The Newsboy Strike of 1899: The 5,000
Pennsylvania and New York Newsboys Who Used Communication to
Tracy Phan Stop the Press
Eliana Hermel
Morse Code
Kyra Carlson The Role of Radio in the Second World War:
One Man’s Story
Navajo Code Talkers: Key to the
Ruth Ryden
Unbreakable Code
Jason Dingemans
The Telegraph: The Unseen Battalion
of the Civil War
Heath Kleyn
11JUNIOR DIVISION
Junior Individual Junior Group Performance
Performance Arts as Propaganda: Communism Meeting
Bharatanatyam Dance: The Speech of Shiva Democracy Through the 20th Century
Alanah Pryor Hannah Hysell, Josephine Marsh,
Lila Baliunas, Mary Riley
Grace D. Banker: Braving the Frontline
of the Great War Eureka: How News of Gold Spread Faster
Than a Californian Wildfire
Ashley Wilson
Cody Moore, Cole Ozoga, Janessa Perron,
Joseph Augustyn, Kiera McDonnald
Kalpana Chawla: Communication in Space
Ishwari Bhatt French Revolution
Dayne Way, Malia Blixt, Micah Way,
Shostakovich: Communicating Hope Rose Spriks
and a Silent Rebellion
Braden Miesse The Great Debates: Lincoln and Douglas
Andrew Curvelo, Peter Drelles, Roan Borton
The Key to Understanding Coded
Communications: Elizebeth Smith Friedman
Unlocks Enemy Secrets, Paving the Way for
a Secure Nation
Megan LeaTrea
The Riveters: Communicating Equality and
Perseverance Through Rosie the Riveter
Ruby Peterson
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Junior Individual Website
Ill Communication: Shame and Suffering in
the 1918 Pandemic
Gabriel Feffer
Diego Rivera: Expression of the
American Dream
ARCHIVE AVENGERS:
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Aidan Korpi
The Culper Spy Ring’s Effect on the The Henry Ford Museum: Communication
Revolutionary War Through Artifacts
Anna Rupard Olivia Farmer
The Flint Water Crisis: The The History of Facsimile Technology
Miscommunication of Government Clay Horne
Alexa Katsis
The Treaty of Ghent: The Communication
The Flying Messengers of WWI: How Using That Ended the War of 1812
Carrier Pigeons to Communicate in Battle Zachary Chaussee
Saved Countless Lives
Brent Wohlfield TV and the Vietnam War: Bringing War to
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13JUNIOR DIVISION
Junior Group Website
Communication from Earth, Space,
Global Superpowers
Akshaya Palanisamy, Anna Wang
Communication in History: The Invention
of the Steam Engine
Blake Volk, Jacob Rodabaugh,
Sawyer Haubenstricker
Fireside Chats: Communication in the
Great Depression
Austin Christian, Lydia Nieuwenhuis,
Marianne DeVries, Mina Boekestein,
Troy Dingemans
Jacob Riis: A Picture Is Worth a
Thousand Words
Cali VanDyke, Connor DeVries, Emma Bakker,
Ethan Schipper, Hailey DeVries
Pop Art: Communicating Without Words
Alexis Kiekens, Grace Smith
Sanskrit: Communication in the
Ancient World
Sanika Atmakur, Sayali Badwaik
The Evolution of ASL
Megan Yanity, Melanie Matusek
The History of Women’s Rights
Alexia Sabin, Becca Duty
WWII Propaganda Posters: Communication
at a Glance
James Balkema, Kate Kwekel,
Miriam VanBrugge, Weston Ekema,
Zach Schipper
14SENIOR DIVISION
Senior Individual Senior Group
Documentary Documentary
Eunice Carter; Communication Through Communication in History: The Battle of
the Courtroom Gettysburg – The Turning Point in
Tabitha Newberry American History
Elijah Fenstermaker, Ezekiel Fenstermaker
Mass Media and Martin Luther: Making
Christianity Accessible to All Targeting Hollywood: HUAC Attempts to
Ella Johnson Censor Free Speech in the Film Industry
Griffin Lownds, William Szegda
Radio Free Europe and the
Hungarian Revolution The 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade:
Miyabi Shinki Marching to Build Momentum for
the Movement
Three Days of Peace and Music: Woodstock Isabella Pongracz, Michelle Hickey,
Communicates Counter-cultural Ideals in a Sofia Anger
Divided America
Laura Thielman Track to Trenches – Communicating at the
Speed of an Olympic Medalist
Tootsie Rolls and Ditty Bop: The Failures and Avery Daugherty, Jessee Ford
Successes of Military Communications
Zackary Howey Walt Disney: Communication
Through Animation
Kaitlyn Kausler, Leah Adams,
Noelle Jankowski, Sofia Sarafa
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Senior Individual Exhibit
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Program Raises Awareness and Anxiety WMU Department of History
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Allison Tate
Reading Between the Lines: Hidden
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Emily Olsson
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Senior Paper Senior Individual
Elegance and Grace: Examining Soong May Performance
Ling’s Tour of America and the Artistry An Exposition on Martha Graham: Protesting
of Her Communication Through Dance
William Zhou Gracie Burnham
Frequency Hopping: The Birth of a Rachel Carson: “A Not So Silent Spring”
Revolutionary Communication System
Emma Wilson
Andreanna Ulery
Red Scare Sabotages American Supremacy:
Nixon’s Visit to China – The Week That Miscommunication Evicts Qian Xuesen from
Changed Our World United States Rocket Facilities and Leads to
Arthur Gayden Acceleration of China’s Missile Program
Alison Chen
Speak No Evil: Communication in the
Holodomor The Story of the Crafts: Communicating
Andy Yao Despite Adversity
Zoe Kukla
The Foundations of 20th Century
Anti-Semitism
Sabrina Warner Senior Group Performance
Maligned Stars: The Abuse of the Golden
The Olive Branch Petition: Extending
Age of Hollywood and the Effect It Had on
Understanding
America’s Culture
Amelia Lewis
Gabriella Tonn, Molly Vander Hagen,
Natalie Watson
The Unsung Riders of Mongolia in 1245:
The Clever Couriers of the Jam
McLevy Strong-Morse
17SENIOR DIVISION
Senior Individual Website Senior Group Website
Braille: The Road to Equal Opportunity How Communication Impacted the Women’s
Isabelle Schrauben Rights Movement in the 1800s and 1900s
Gabby Sanders, Rosa Loeschner,
Communicating Capabilities: Project Sajal Pearson
Corona Launches Weaponized Satellite
Photoreconnaissance
Seeing the Election in Real Time: How Social
Amelia Chen Media Has Revolutionized the Way Politics
are Communicated
Communication Through Protest:
The Civil Rights Movement Mercedes Cross, Shannon McMenamin
Kiersten West
The Story of the Pony Express
ENACT: Planting the Seed of Carter Barker, Josh Beck
Environmental Consciousness
Ryann Jibson The Unperceived Communication
of Morse Code
Listening in Silence: How Closed Captioning Katrina Luzadas, Savannah Brinkmeier
Connects the Deaf Community
Kirk Wohlfield Jr.
Singing Their Way to Freedom: How Hidden
Messages in Songs Helped Guide Slaves
to Freedom
Abigail Gusway
The Evolution of the United States
Postal Service
Ashley Barker
The Irish Rajah: George Thomas and the
Communication of British Colonization in
18th-Century India
Maria Cheriyan
The Tenerife Plane Disaster
Hazel Hysell
Writing Advertisements and Stereotypes:
The Impact of the 1950’s Marketing Industry
on Women
Emma Hulst
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