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2005 NHD National Contest Webcast

 

2004-2005 

National Qualifiers

Individual Performances:

Kate Van de Loo Sarah Emma Edmonds: Civil War Heroine 
Janet Yearous  Trains without Whistles: Codes of Communication on the Underground Railroad

 

 

 

2004-2005 

Regional Qualifiers

 

 

Individual Documentary:

Jessica Krentz

The Titanic:
An Irony in Communication

Kathleen Bond

Presidential Deceit:
How a Well Devised Cover Up Brought Down the Presidency of Richard Nixon

Christina Gau 

Emmitt Till: 
Communication From a Casket

Hans Banholzer

The Internet:
A Window to the World

Megan Unrau

The Massacre at Wounded Knee:
The Final Silencing

 

 

Group Documentary:

Angela Bemowski, Trista Kurien & Laura Salzman

Helen Keller:
Seeing the World Through Closed Eyes

Brian Guss & Matt Mullen

Bud Abbott & Lou Costello:
Communicating Through Laughter

Mai Yia Lee & Pang Kou Lee

Shamanism Among Hmong-Americans:
Communicating with the Dead

David Shaw & Matt Reidl

ESPN:
Communicating through Protest

Hele Gjertson & Stephanie Willhite

Hellen Keller & Anne Sullivan:
The Challenge to Communication

 

 

Historical Papers:  

Max Bodette

Code Talkers:
Creators for Equal Rights

Elizabeth Gierczak

The First Kindergarten in Watertown, WI:
Communicating with Others

Mason Klimek

Guglielmo Marconi: 
Changing Communication Dramatically With One Invention

Luke Zinkowich

Morse Code and the Telegraph:
Primitive Forms of Communication

Britt Buchkowski

Daisy Bates:
Communicator of Injustice

 

 

Individual Performances:

Becky Buffington

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Communicated with Peace

Olivia Haas

Alice Paul:
Fighting and Communicating for Equality for Women

Hannah Heilmeier

Dickey Chapelle Communicating On the Front Line:
Where No Woman Shot Pictures Before

Kelly Wurzer

Sojourner Truth:
A Woman Abolitionist

 

 

 

Group Performances:

Alyssa Belanger & Melissa Mehre

Sons & Daughters of Liberty:
Communicating Freedom to the 13 Colonies

Kaitlin Heller & Jaclyn Verimak

Alice Paul & the ERA:
Speaking on Women's Rights

Lani Osicka & Alex Strouf

Communication Through Song:
Protest Music Against Vietnam War

Kyle Borrell & Paul Luce

Henry Luce:
Communicating to America Through America's Most Popular Antonia Thompson Magazines

 

 

Websites:

Charles Blunt

David Clark Everest

Zach Huempfner

Manitowoc Submarines:
Destroying Japanese Communication

Casey Olbratz

The Emergency Alert Broadcast System:
Communicating Emergencies To Help Save Lives

Isaac Jakel

Model T-Ford:
The World's Best Car

Kaitlin Schuman

Louis Braille:
Communication Through Darkness

 

 

Individual Exhibits:

Nicole Bartsch

The Pony Express:
Communication at the Speed of a Horse

Phil Berkley

Protesting Project ELD:
Life & Death of a Communication System

Sarah Demuth

Fort Laramie Treaties:
Broken Promises

Joey Hart

The Pony Express: Mail across the Country in 10 Days

Katy Hale

Malcom X:
Communicating a New Forceful Message of Separation to Blacks

 

 

Group Exhibits:

Katrina Nelson & Kaylie VanGalder

Wisconsin School for Deaf:
The Power of Silent Communication

Stefanie Anderson & Ronda Feit

Secret Codes on the Underground Railroad:
Speaking Without a Word

Yer Vang & Yee Vang

The Hmong:
Communicating Through Storycloths 

Melissa Grutzik & Chelsie Maquire

Emma Goldman Speaks Out:
The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Ben Delong & Lucas Mynsberge

Navajo Code Talkers in WWII:
Communicating Without Being Understood

 

 

 

2004 - 2005

Local Level Awards

 
Susan Stoddard Memorial Award  

Spencer Sebo

The Battle for Wake Island:
Communication Was a Major Problem

 

Writers of Wausau Award
Historical Papers:

Megan Zweber

Open Heart Procedures: Communicating a New Way of Life to People Around the World

Bennett Heinz

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 
The Great Communicator

Jess Newton

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Communicating Against Segregation in America 

 

 

 

Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post #388
Group Performances:

Lani Osicka & Alex Strouf

Communication Through Song: 
Protest Music Against the Vietnam War

Group Documentaries:

Taylor Maas & Alex O'Donnell

Bob Dylan:
Communication Through Protest

Websites:

Zach Huempfner

Manitowoc Submarines:
Destroying Japanese Communication

Individual Documentaries:

Megan Unrau

The Massacre at Wounded Knee:
The Final Silence

Lacy Reissman

WWII: 
Communicating With Tanks

Historical Papers:

Max Bodette

Code Talkers:
Creators of a Code That Saved Thousands

Abby Jamison

WWII Navajo Code Talkers:
Communicating Through the Code That Couldn't Be Cracked

KaYoua Xiong

Communicating Back to the Vietname War:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam

Tony Matushak 

The Treaty of Versailles of WWI:
The Miscommunication Which Caused WWII & The Rise of Hitler

 

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Individual Exhibits
:

Alex Schulz:

Vietnam War:
Communication Through Photographs

Nical Bartsch

The Pony Express:
Communicating at a Speed of a Horse

Group Exhibit:

Dani Behrens & Kendra Zunker

Jane Goodall:
The Miracle of Communication

 

Wausau Area Hmong Association
 Wausau Area Hmong Association
Group Exhibit:

Lue Lee & Nathan Thao

The Secret Wars in Laos:
Communicating Between the Hmong and the Americans

Paper:

Mai Yia Moua

Hmong Immigration:
Communicating a New Culture

Kong Meng Lee

The Communication Between the Hmong and the Americans:
The Vietnam War

Individual Exhibit:

Hli Moua & Lee Kong

Hmong Education:
Hmong People Communicated Their Value of Education to Their Community By Going to School

 Everest Area Optimist Club

Andrea Willette

Communicating American Pride:
The Story of a Star-Spangled Banner

Amanda Opper

Emmitt Till:
Saying So Much To Society Without Saying a Word

Kassie Klump

Wisconsin Underground Railroad

Jaya Sita Charbaneau

Rocking Out to Speak Out:
The Dead Kennedys

Nick Hoehn

Nazi Propaganda:
Communicating Hatred

 

Marathon County Historical Society
Group Exhibits:

Yer Vang & Yee Vang

The Hmong:
Communicating Through Storycloths 

Breanna Mootz & Jessica Sandberg

The 48ers:
Life in Wisconsin

Katrina Nelson & Kaylie VanGalder

Wisconsin School for the Deaf:
The Power of Silent Communication

Website:

Charles Blunt

David Clark Everest

Individual Exhibit:

Sheng Yeng Vang

Delavan School for the Deaf:
A Silent Education to Communicate

Paper:

Mai Yia Moua

Hmong Immigration:
Communicating a New Culture

 

 YWCA

Sam Barber & Alison Charles

Title IX Sending Out a Message:
Sports Are Not Just For Guys Anymore

Katie Fonti

Deborah Sampson:
Extending Communication Between Men and Women

Josie Black

Katherine Dunham:
A Pioneer of Dance Communication

Kasi Davidowski

Belle Boyel:
The Communication of the Devoted Confederate Spy

 

 Central Wisconsin Children's Theater

Antonio Thompson, Kyle Borrell & Paul Luce

Henry Luce:
Communicating to America Through America's Most Popular

Jaclyn Vercimak & Kaitlin Heller

Alice Paul & the ERA:
Speaking on Women's Rights

Olivia Haas

Alice Paul:
Fighting and Communicating for Equality for Women

Hannah Heilmeier

Dickey Chapelle Communicating on the Front Lines:
Where No Woman Shot Before

Lani Osika & Alex Strouf

Communication Through Song:
Protest Music Against the Vietnam War


DCE Drama Boosters

 

Kayla Cybula

Phillis Wheatley:
From Slave to Author

Group

Olivia Batien & Kaila Martin 

Hellen Keller & Sign Language:
Speaking with Words Unheard

Sammie Sackman & Sam Shortell

Martha Graham:
Communicating Through Movement and Dance

 

 

Rothschild-Schofield-Weston VFW, Post#8895
Group Exhibit:

Ryan Nyenhuis & Tyler Sierakowski

Communicating The Unbroken Code

Individual

Rachel Fowler

The Korean War:
Veterans Communicate Their Experiences

Taylor Ziegler

The Bombing of Pearl Harbor:
Communication Failure

Spencer Sebo

The Battle for Wake Island:
Communication Was A Major Problem

Papers

Abby Jamison

WWII Navajo Code Talkers:
Communicating Through the Code That Couldn't Be Cracked

 

American Legion Roy L. Drew Post#492
Group Exhibit:

Nick LaPorte & Justin Holzhaeuser

A Catastrophic Result of Miscommunication

Individual

Greg Fehrman

Custer's Last Stand:
The Battle of Miscommunication

Elizabeth Thao

The Secret Wars For Laos:
How the Hmong People Communicated to America

Paper

Max Bodette

Navajo Code Talkers:
Creators of a Code That Saved Thousands

 

Janke Book Store Award
Also, a $20.00 gift certificate at Janke Book Store

Eva Robinson

Hortonville Teacher Strike:
Teachers Speaking Out for Better Conditions

 

Marathon County Public Libraary
Individual

Bridget Weidner

Harriet Tubman:
Communication in History

Spencer Long

Jesse Owens:
Relaying the Message of Hope to African-Americans

Nick Ewaskowitz

Pearl Harbor

Britany Lotharious

John F. Kennedy's Assassination is Communicated:
The Grim Details of the Assassination as it Unrolled 

Megan Lucht

Lighthouses:
Sending a Message for Safety

Individual

Marissa Wildeck

Black Holes:
Science's Invisible Mystery

Andrew Schulz

The JRK Assassination:
From the Shooting World Communication All the Way to the Conspiracy Cover-Up

WEAC

Eva Robinson

Hortonville Teacher Strike:
Teachers Speaking Out for Better Conditions

Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area
Group Exhibit
Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area
Group Exhibits:
Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area
Group Exhibit
s:

Yer Vang & Yee Vang

The Hmong:
Communicating Through Storycloths 

Lee Kong & Hli Moua

The Hmong: 
Learning to Communicate Through the English Language

Group Performances:

Olivia Batien & Kaila Martin

Hellen Keller & Sign Language:
Speaking With Words Unheard

Individual Documentary:

Amanda Yang

The American Renaissence:
African-Americans Communicating to the World

KaBao Lee

The Middle Passage

Group Group Documentaries:

Mai Yia Lee & Pang Kou Lee

Shamanism Among Hmong Americans:
Communicating with the Dead

Website:

Casey Olbrantz

The Emergency Alert Broadcast System:
Communicating Emergencies to Help Save Lives

Superintendent's Award

Chris Grinstead

 

 

Principals' Awards                      

Kathleen Bond

Presidential Deceit:
How a Well Devised Cover Up Brought Down the Presidency of Richard Nixon

Christin Gau

Emmitt Till:
Communication From a Casket

    

 

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