History Day at Washburn

2022 Kansas History Day Winners – District 3 Virtual Contest

Junior Group Website

1st Place

The New Look to Presidency

Topeka Collegiate School

2nd Place

Madam CJ Walker ~ Self Made Millionaire

Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Brown V. Board of Education

Seaman Middle School

Junior Individual Website

1st Place

Ad Astra Per Aspera: Crossing the Racial Frontier into Space

Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

Cats in Medieval Europe:  A Tale of Goddesses, Witchcraft, and Genocide

Most Pure Heart Catholic School Of Topeka

3rd Place

Scandalous Bloomers!  Who Will They Corrupt Next?

Washburn Rural Middle School

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place

Mapping a Mystery: Frontiers of the Deep Sea

Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

Dr. Alan L. Hart: TRANSforming the Field of Sexology

Topeka Collegiate School

3rd Place

From Atchison to Aviation:  A Frontier in Flight

Washburn Rural Middle School

Senior Historical Paper

1st Place

“Its Lonely Freedom” Theodore Roosevelt and His Efforts to Preserve the American Wild

Washburn Rural High

2nd Place

The Peaceful Atom

Northern Heights

3rd Place

How Nuclear Power Changed Our World

Highland Park High

Senior Group Documentary

1st Place

Dr. Samuel Kountz; Advancing Frontiers One Transplant at a Time

Seaman High School

2nd Place

Joseph Oklahombi: Overcoming Military and Racial Oppression One Code at a Time

Seaman High School

Junior Group Doc

1st Place

Chinese Rail Workers on the Western Frontier

Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

No Ordinary Joe:  Jumping Into the Frontier of Space

Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

The Final Frontier: Apollo 11 and the Race to put a Man on the Moon

Most Pure Heart of Mary

Junior Individual Doc

1st Place

The Simpsons: Pioneering Modern Television

Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

The History of Hadrian's Wall

Robinson Middle School

3rd Place

Electric- the Life Works of Nikola Tesla

Topeka Collegiate

Junior Individual Performance

1st Place

Behind Enemy Lines

Washburn Rural Middle School

Junior Group Performance

1st Place

The Effects of the Shot Clock

Topeka Collegiate:

Senior Group Exhibit

1st Place

Bleeding Kansas: A Frontier for Change

Seaman High School

Junior Group Exhibits

1st Place

The Dark Lady of DNA: The Untold Story on the Frontier of DNA

By Jadyn Barnett, Lucy Hundley

Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

Uniting the East and West: A Frontier in Transportation

Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

Frederick Cook

Topeka Collegiate

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

Changing the Corset: A Frontier in Women’s Clothing

Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

People of the Place of the Fire:  The Potawatomi Trail of Death and the ‘Permanent’ Indian Frontier

Most Pure Heart of Mary

3rd Place

ROBODOC: The Worlds 1st Place Surgical Robot

Topeka Collegiate

Honorable Mention

The Eagle Has Landed: The Apollo 11 Mission

Topeka Collegiate

2022 Kansas History Day Winners – District 3 Virtual Contest

Washburn University History Department
Rachel Goossen, Kim Morse and Robin Shrimplin

JUNIOR HISTORICAL PAPERS

1st PLACE:
Title: The American Plan: The Forgotten War on Venereal Diseases
School: Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd PLACE:
Title: Japanese Internment Camps: Debating National Security vs. the American Constitution
School: Topeka Collegiate School

3rd PLACE:
Title: The Nineteenth Amendment: The Debate of Women’s Rights
School: Topeka Collegiate School

SENIOR HISTORICAL PAPERS

1st PLACE and Phil Morse Award for Best Historical Paper
Title: Roman Roulette: How a Breakdown of Diplomacy Would End the Roman Republic
School: Northern Heights High School

2nd PLACE:
Title: The Republic of Austria v. Altmann: The Woman in Gold
School: Seaman High School

Phil Morse Award for Best Historical Paper (1st place)
Phil Morse graduated from Washburn in 1963 with a bachelor’s degree in
History. After graduate school at Denver University and service in the Peace Corps, Phil and Lona Morse settled in Topeka. Phil built a career in business and community service. He believed that the skills learned through a liberal arts education, history in particular, were crucial to success in any profession. For a number of years, Phil was a dedicated History Day judge for the paper category. For him the research, analytical, organization, and writing skills at the core of history education and History Day were tools essential for professional excellence. Prior to Phil’s death in 2016, Phil and Lona endowed the Phil Morse Scholarship to honor the values integral to History Day and to celebrate quality writing, history, and a liberal-arts education. The award is applied to the first year of study at Washburn
University.

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS

1st PLACE:
Title: Indian Residential Schools: Assimilation and Genocide
School: Topeka Collegiate School

2nd PLACE:
Title: Harald Jäger: The Man Who Opened the Berlin Wall
School: Topeka Collegiate School

3rd PLACE:
Title: More Deadly Than War
School: Washburn Rural Middle School

JUNIOR GROUP EXHIBITS

1st PLACE:
Title: Mary Church Terrell: Lifting As We Climb
School: Washburn Rural High School

2nd PLACE:
Title: The Debate Between William Allen White & the KKK
School: Seaman Middle School

3rd PLACE:
Title: The Great Debate of Women’s Sports
School: Mater Dei Catholic School

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES

1st PLACE:
Title: Clarina Nichols: Territorial Kansas’ Frontier Suffragette
School: Most Pure Heart Catholic School of Topeka

2nd PLACE:
Title: Frances Perkins: Making Deals With Great Zeal
School: Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd PLACE:
Title: The Atomic Bomb: An Explosive Time in History
School: Topeka Collegiate School

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

1st PLACE:
Title: The Lady Editor
School: Northern Heights High School

JUNIOR GROUP PERFORMANCES

1st PLACE:
Title: “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” Penelope Laingen
and The Yellow Ribbon Project
School: Washburn Rural High School

2nd PLACE:
Title: Debates Following September 11th: Our Freedom, Our Liberty, Our
Civil Rights
School: Seaman Middle School

3rd PLACE:
Title: The Zong: Massacre at Sea
School: Most Pure Heart Catholic School of Topeka

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY

1st PLACE:
Title: The Games Must Go On
School: Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd PLACE:
Title: Title IX: Every Girl in a Sport, and a Sport for Every Girl
School: Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd PLACE:
Title: The Berlin Blockade: Dividing a Country, Dividing the World
School: Topeka Collegiate School

JUNIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY

1st PLACE:
Title: The Deadly Debate: The Spanish Flu
School: Seaman Middle School

2nd PLACE:
Title: Little Rock Nine, 9 Students, 1 Difference
School: Seaman Middle School

3rd PLACE:
Title: The Transcontinental Railroad: The Debate That Put the United State
On Track for Economic Success
School: Seaman Middle School

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY

1st PLACE:
Title: The Rocky Road to Democracy: Taiwan in the Shadow of China
School: Topeka West High School

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITES

1st PLACE:
Title: Thirteen Days: How the World Came to the Brink of Destruction
School: Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd PLACE:
Title: The Waco Siege: What Really Happened and Why?
School: Topeka Collegiate School

3rd PLACE:
Title: The Geneva Convention
School: Topeka Collegiate School

JUNIOR GROUP WEBSITES

1st PLACE:
Title: “Rule Your Mind or It Will Rule You”: The Debate and Diplomacy of
Horace Mann and the Common School Movement
School: Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd PLACE:
Title: The Chicago Seven: Success and Failure
School: Topeka Collegiate School

3rd PLACE:
Title: Bleeding Kansas
School: Seaman Middle School

2021 History Day Winners – District 3

JUNIOR HISTORICAL PAPERS

1^st PLACE:           
Can You Hear Me? Over”: The Impact of Radio on Aviation
Washburn Rural Middle School

2^nd PLACE:         
Spy Communication During the Cold War
Washburn Rural Middle School

3^rd PLACE:          
Revolutionizing Long-Distance Communication: The Story of the Electric Telegraph
Topeka Collegiate

SENIOR HISTORICAL PAPERS

1^st PLACE:          
The Cuban Missile: Miscommunication on a Nuclear Scale
Northern Heights

2^nd PLACE:         
Communication Through Demonstration
Hayden High School

3^rd PLACE:          
Communication Breakthroughs in History: The Printing Press
Hayden Catholic High School

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS

1^st PLACE:          
Communication in the Women’s Suffrage Movement Leading Up to the 19^th Amendment
Topeka Collegiate

2^nd PLACE:         
The Black Press and the Murder of Emmett Till
Topeka Collegiate

3^rd PLACE:          
Big Daddy: The Art of Advocating
Washburn Rural Middle School

JUNIOR GROUP EXHIBITS

1^st PLACE:          
The Battle of Midway
Seaman Middle School

2^nd PLACE:         
“We Will Not Remain Silent”
Seaman Middle School

3^rd PLACE:          
Give Us Free
Seaman Middle School

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS

1^ST PLACE:          
The Cat Behind the Hat
Northern Heights

SENIOR GROUP EXHIBITS

1^st PLACE:          
Apollo 13, Houston, We’ve Had a Problem
Hayden Catholic High School

2^nd PLACE:         
Edmonia Lewis: The Groundbreaking Sculptress of the 19^th Century
Seaman High School

3^rd PLACE:          
Space Communication and Development
Seaman High School

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES

1^st PLACE:          
Why Would They Try to Kill Me For Something I Didn’t Do?
Seaman Middle School

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE—NO ENTRIES

JUNIOR GROUP PERFORMANCES

1^st PLACE:          
Hedy Lamarr: More Than Just a Pretty Face
Seaman Middle School

2^nd PLACE:         
Political Communication in Ancient Rome 
Robinson Middle School

3^rd PLACE:          
I Shall Speak: Emma Goldman and Free Speech
Washburn Rural Middle School

SENIOR GROUP PERFORMANCES

1^st PLACE:          
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
Hayden Catholic High School

2^nd PLACE:         
Emeline Piggott: Confederate Spy
Hayden Catholic High School

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY

1^st PLACE:          
A Crusader with a Camera
Washburn Rural Middle School

2^nd PLACE:         
Lies of the Silver Screen
Washburn Rural Middle School

3^rd PLACE:          
Martin Luther: Using Communication Throughout the Reformation
Seaman Middle School

JUNIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY

1^st PLACE:          
The Most Dangerous Jew in L.A. Stopping Nazi Communications
Seaman Middle School

2^nd PLACE          
The Evolution of the C.I.A.: From None to Number One
Mater Dei Catholic School

3^rd PLACE           
Radar and Sonar: Communicating a Change in War
Seaman Middle School

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARY

1^st PLACE:          
“Love of a Moment”: The Untold Story of Corita Kent
Seaman High School 

SENIOR GROUP DOCUMENTARY

1^ST PLACE:          
Richard Nixon’s Visit to China
Hayden Catholic High School

2^nd PLACE:         
The Tap Code
Seaman High School

3^rd PLACE:          
Jackie Robinson: An American Hero
Seaman High School      

JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITES

1^st PLACE:          
Cracking the Uncrackable
Washburn Rural Middle Schoo

2^nd PLACE:         
Stonewall’s Impact
Topeka Collegiate

3^rd PLACE:
Space Shot
Mater Dei Catholic School

JUNIOR GROUP WEBSITES

1^st PLACE:          
Golden Record: The Search for Interstellar Life
Topeka Collegiate

2^nd PLACE:         
Momentous Military Members: Wildlife Assisting Mankind
Mater Dei Catholic School

3^rd PLACE:          
Salem Witch Trials- Miscommunication in History
Topeka Collegiate

SENIOR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITES

1^ST PLACE:          
Opening the Line of Communication on Racial Inequality in Medicine
Seaman High School

2^nd PLACE:        
Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Seaman High School

3^rd PLACE:        
Calling the Klan
Seaman High School

SENIOR GROUP WEBSITES

1^st PLACE:          
K-Syndrome: The Disease That Saved
Seaman High School

2020 History Day Winners

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place:
Why We Must Protest
Washburn Rural Middle

2nd Place:
The Struggle to Break the Sound Barrier
Washburn Rural Middle

3^rd Place:
The Right to Tino Rangatiratanga Withheld: An Investigation into the History of the Maori People with a Retrospective View on the Continuing Battle for Land Rights and Cultural Recognition
Topeka Collegiate

Senior Historical Paper

1^st Place:
Escaping the Auschwitz of Asia: Healing the Scars of the Cambodian Genocide
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
Elizabeth Blackwell: Breaking Medical Barriers for Women
Hayden High School

3^rd Place:
Introducing Color to the World of Ballet
Seaman High

Junior Individual Exhibit

1^st Place:
Gertrude Bell: Midwife to a Nation
Washburn Rural MS

2^nd Place:
Mary Cassatt: “Women Should be Someone, Not Something”
Washburn Rural MS

3^rd Place:
Billie Jean King: The Woman Who Won
Washburn Rural MS

Honorable Mention:
Plowing Through Expectations: The Land Girls of WWI
Americus Elementary/NLC Junior High

Junior Group Exhibit

1^st Place:
Sally Ride: Ready For Take Off
Washburn Rural MS

2^nd Place:
Rosie the Riveter: The Propaganda That Broke Gender Stereotypes
Seaman Middle School

3^rd Place:
Lucy Stone’s Fight For Rights
Most Pure Heart of Mary

Senior Individual Exhibit

1^st Place:
Forged in Discipline, Invisibly Trekking Through Sea, Air and Land: The Evolution from Frogmen to Elite
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
The Pentagon Papers: The Press’ Fight for the Right to Know
Hayden High School

3^rd Place:
Walt Disney: The Evolution of Animation
Seaman High

Senior Group Exhibit

1^st Place
Loving v. Virginia: Love is Love
Hayden High School

2^nd Place:
Spying in the Deep
Seaman High

3^rd Place:
The Salk Vaccine Saves All
Seaman High

Junior Individual Performance

1^st Place:
Hidden in the Spotlight
Washburn Rural Middle

2^nd Place:
Breaking Down the Stonewall: The Riot that Changed the World
Washburn Rural Middle

3^rd Place:
Breaking Barriers Through Signing: Linda Bove
Seaman Middle School 

Junior Group Performance

1^st Place:
How Blood Transfusion Broke Barriers in WW2
Seaman Middle School

2^nd Place:
Tippi Hedren: Breaking Barriers One Nail at a Time
Seaman Middle School

No 3^rd Place in this category

Senior Individual Performance

1^st Place:
Affectionately, Mrs. N
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
Surgeon Suffragist the Complicated Life of Mary Walker
Seaman High

3^rd Place:
A Network of Networks
Hayden High School

Senior Group Performance

1^st Place:
Exactly As You Are
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
The Scarlet Sisters
Hayden High School

3^rd Place:
Women of Influence
Highland Park High School

Junior Individual Documentary

1^st Place:
All the World Loves a Baby: Breaking the Two Pound Barrier
Washburn Rural MS

2^nd Place:
Alice Stebbins Wells: Powerful. Determined. Female
Washburn Rural MS

3^rd Place:
Women’s Suffrage: Breaking Barriers in History
Seaman Middle School

Honorable Mention:
Sam Phillips: Giving the Sound of Colors
Seaman Middle School

Junior Group Documentary

1^st Place:
Either You Print It Just the Way I Draw It or I Quit
Seaman Middle School

2^nd Place:
The Central Idea: Galileo Galilei’s Revolutionary Idea
Most Pure Heart of Mary

3^rd Place:
Do or Die: the AAGPBL Breaking Barriers
Mater Dei Catholic School

 Senior Individual Documentary

1^st Place:
Altering Fashion
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
Can You Tell Me How To Get to Sesame Street
Seaman High

3^rd Place:
Tear Down This Wall
Seaman High

Senior Group Documentary

1^st Place:
Wu-Tang the Documentary
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
Peering Through Space and Time
Seaman High

3^rd Place:
Innocent Rebellion Radical Reaction
Seaman High

Junior Individual Website

1^st Place:
Willing to Take the Heat: Maria Pepe, Playing With the Boys
http://site.nhd.org/67329128
Washburn Rural Middle

2^nd Place:
Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Three Barriers, One Woman
http://site.nhd.org/79566939
Washburn Rural Middl

3^rd Place:
DNA: The Shaping of History
http://site.nhd.org/71752226
Topeka Collegiate

Junior Group Website

1^st Place:
The War Within: Breaking Barriers of Human Hate
http://site.nhd.org/14298653
Most Pure Heart of Mary

3^rd Place:
The Capper Foundation: Doing More than Giving Candy
http://site.nhd.org/71637416
Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Website

1^st Place:
Jackie Ormes: First Female African-American Cartoonist
http://site.nhd.org/94192175
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
Most Substantial Discovery for Science in 1953: Rosalind Franklin and the Upcoming of DNA
http://site.nhd.org/10311253
Seaman High

3^rd Place:
Tape v. Hurley
http://site.nhd.org/02399029
Seaman High

Senior Group Website

1^st Place:
It’s Not a Barrier, It’s an Opportunity
http://site.nhd.org/36603780
Seaman High

2^nd Place:
War Through Her Lens
http://site.nhd.org/16756416
Seaman High

3^rd Place:
Transforming Psychiatry One Patient at a Time: The Story of William C.
Menninger
http://site.nhd.org/91847273
Seaman High

Kansas District 3 History Day Competition Results

Junior Historic Paper

1st  Place

Death of a Killer: The Eradication of Smallpox; Washburn Rural Middle

2nd Place

A Failed New World Order: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Persian Gulf War; Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

Slavs on the Slab: An Investigation into the Tragic Loss of Slavic Religious Practices at the Hands of the Triumphant Missionaries of Christian Europe; Topeka Collegiate

Senior Historic Paper

1st Place

College Students "On Strike!": The Fight for Democracy in Tiananmen Square and Ethnic Studies in SFSC; Seaman High    

2nd Place

Triumph and Tragedy in History: Brown v. Board of Education; Hayden High School

3rd Place

The Great American Smallpox Epidemic; Hayden High School

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

Ascending From the Ashes; Washburn Rural Middle

2nd Place

One Blood; Washburn Rural Middle

3rd Place

Behind Every Mask, There is a Story; Royal Valley Middle

Junior Group Exhibit

1st Place

Tragedy On The Kaw: The 1951 Flood; Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

The Atomic Bomb: Bringer of Victory and Death; Mater Dei Catholic School

3rd Place

The Triumphant Titanic, Bringer of Tragedy; Mater Dei Catholic School

Senior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

Shaping Modern Detective Work: Pitezel, Geyer, and the Murders of H. H. Holmes; Seaman High

2nd Place

Civil Rights at 200 mph: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Wendell Scott; Seaman High

3rd Place

Black Sites: United States Secret Prisons that Shifted the Anthropological Definition of Torture; Hayden High School

Senior Group Exhibit

1st Place

The Race Against Time; Hayden High School

2nd Place

Alice Paul and Women’s Suffrage; Hayden High School

3rd Place

We’re in the Pilot’s Seat Now: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the W.A.S.P.; Seaman High

Junior Individual Performance

1st Place

The Triumphs of William Stokoe: The Father of American Sign Language; Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

How the Tragedy of the Apollo 1 Fire Resulted in the Triumphant Apollo 11 Moon Landing; Wanamaker Elementary

3rd Place

Buffalo Jones: Buffalo Hunter to Buffalo Conservationist; Topeka Lutheran School

Junior Group Performance

1st Place

The Honor No Mother Wants: Gold Star Mothers and Their Journey of Tragedy and Triumph; Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

The Plight of the Peasants in the French Revolution; Robinson Middle School

Senior Individual Performance

1st Place

“El Gobierno Tiene Sangre en Sus Manos”: The Government Has Blood On Its Hands; Seaman High

2nd Place

“Best of Wives and Best of Women” The Triumphs and Tragedies of Elizabeth Schuyler-Hamilton; Seaman High

3rd Place

Fire’s Outcome; Hayden High School

Senior Group Performance

1st Place

Evolving Voices: The Impacts of Minority Women of History; Seaman High

2nd Place

Pierantonio Costa: Guided by His Conscience; Seaman High

Junior Individual Documentary

1st Place

The Fight Against Termination: Minnie Evans Story; Royal Valley Middle

2nd Place

Black Gloves: The Sports Moment That Changed the World; Washburn Rural Middle

3rd Place

Saving Wild Horses, The Story of Mustang Annie; Topeka Collegiate

Honorable Mention

Father Emil Kapaun: The Sacrificing, Suffering, Servant; Mater Dei Catholic School

Junior Group Documentary

1st Place

“Soil Erosion: A National Menace; Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

The One Who Stayed: The Triumph and Tragedy of Carl Wilkens; Washburn Rural Middle

3rd Place

Operation Overlord: A Triumph in Military Engineering; Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Documentary

1st Place

Please Help Us: New Orleans Recovering From Hurricane Katrina; Seaman High

2nd Place

David Harris and the Draft Resistance; Hayden High School

3rd Place

The Most Merciful Thing: The Story of Margaret Sanger; Seaman High 

Senior Group Documentary

1st Place

Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: The Struggle of Surviving Japanese Imprisonment During WWII; Seaman High

2nd Place

William D. Matthews: A Cure for Rebellion; Seaman High

3rd Place

The Wilhelm Gustloff: A Tragic Hour ; Seaman High

Honorable Mention

Systems of Logic Based on Bias: Decoding the Father of Artificial Intelligence; Seaman High

Junior Individual Website

1st Place

Roe v. Wade: The Supreme Court Case that Put a Finish to Dangerous Illegal Abortion (http://67243371.nhd.weebly.com); Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

The Osage Indians: Rags to Riches to Graves (http://92189124.nhd.weebly.com); Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

Tiny Stitches: The Triumph and Tragedy of Vivien Thomas (http://48364035.nhd.weebly.com); Washburn Rural Middle

Junior Group Website

1st Place

A Tribal Cause: The Unification of Gaul (http://89034979.nhd.weebly.com); Washburn Rural Middle

2nd Place

Triumph of Independence; Tragedy of Partition (http://27966523.nhd.weebly.com); Topeka Collegiate

Senior Individual Website

1st Place

My Enemy, My Savior: Mamoru Shinozaki; Seaman High

2nd Place

Triumph and Tragedy of the First Philippine Republic (http://17481187.nhd.weebly.com); Washburn Rural High

3rd Place

Reshaping the Message: The Triumph and Tragedy of Mass Media (http://59056563.nhd.weebly.com); Seaman High

Senior Group Website

1st Place

Under Siege: Elihu Washburne in Paris (http://61668318.nhd.weebly.com); Seaman High

2nd Place

The Equal Rights Amendment (http://97583371.nhd.weebly.com); Washburn Rural High School

3rd Place

Brains Over Beauty: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Hedy Lamarr (http://64304270.nhd.weebly.com) ; Seaman High

"Conflict & Compromise"

Congratulations to these students who competed in District Three and placed at Nationals in 2018:

SECOND PLACE IN JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

The Treaty of New Echota, the Lynchpin of Nvnadaulatsvyi (The Trail Where We Cried) 

Topeka Collegiate School

THIRD PLACE IN SENIOR GROUP PERFORMANCE

The Standard Dilemma

Hayden Catholic High School

TOP TEN IN JUNIOR HISTORICAL PAPER

The Sykes-Picot Agreement: How An Influential Compromise Has Led To Ongoing Conflict 

Topeka Collegiate School

District Three 2018 History Day Competition Results

Phil Morse Scholarship

Seaman High School, Historical Paper "The Versailles Treaty: The Product of One War, The Cause of Another"

Admissions Award Scholarship

Washburn Rural High School, Senior Individual Website "Conflict and Compromise in Michelangelo's Judgment"

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place

Ivory, Keratin, and Trophies: The Conflicted Compromise of Sacrificing a Few to Save Many - Topeka Collegiate School

2nd Place

The Sykes-Picot Agreement: How an Influential Compromise Has Led To Ongoing Conflict - Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

Richard Feynman: The Decision NOT to Drop the Bomb - Washburn Rural Middle School

Senior Historical Paper

1st Place

The Versailles Peace Treaty: The Product of One War, the Cause of Another - Seaman High School

2nd Place

The Rising Conflicts of Genetically Modified Organisms in the American Society - Seaman High School

3rd Place

On Track to a Better Nation: The Pullman Strike - Hayden High School 

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

Midnight Massacres: The Rush to Form a Country - Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

An Insurrection for Independence: American's Involvement and Influence in the Philippines - Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

Minors Mining: Trippers, Nippers and Spraggers - Washburn Rural Middle School

Junior Group Exhibit 

1st Place

The Four-Day War: The Battle of Marathon - Topeka Collegiate School

2nd Place

The Wars of the Roses: The Conflict That Created the Tudor Dynasty - Topeka Collegiate School

3rd Place

A Fashion Evolution: Who Wears the Pants Now? - Washburn Rural Middle School

Senior Individual Exhibit   

1st Place

The Compromise Hub of Ellis Island - Seaman High School

Senior Group Exhibit

1st Place

The Unknown Epidemic - Hayden High School

2nd Place

The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act: Canning the Pest of the American Dinner Table - Washburn Rural High School

3rd Place

Gas in Exchange for Blood: Chemical Weaponry WWI - Seaman High School

Junior Individual Performance 

1st Place

The Treaty of New Echota, The Lynchpin of Nvnadaulatsvyi (The Trail Where We Cried) - Topeka Collegiate School

2nd Place

It's Not Always "Oh What a Beautiful Morning": conflict and Compromise in Musical Theatre - Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself: Franklin Roosevelt's Empowering Words During the Great Depression - Mater Dei Catholic School

Junior Group Performance   

1st Place

Galileo vs. The Catholic Church - Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic School

2nd Place

The Versailles Treaty - Chase Middle School

Senior Individual Performance

1st Place

Home of the Brave? Challenging Military Service Standards - Seaman High School

2nd Place

The Potsdam Conference - Hayden High School

Senior Group Performance

 1st Place

And You Thought I Was Just a Pretty Face - Seaman High School 

2nd Place

The Standard Dilemma - Hayden High School

Junior Individual Documentary  

1st Place

Breaking Barriers-The Raye Jean Montague Story -  Royal Valley Middle School

2nd Place

Science vs. Religion: The Battle Between Fact and Faith - Topeka Collegiate School

3rd Place

The Light that Does Not Lie - Washburn Rural Middle School

Junior Group Documentary 

1st Place

"All Hell Broke Loose": Conflict and Compromise Over Coal-fired Power - Topeka Collegiate School

2nd Place

Rights Below Ground: The Salina Burial Pit - Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Operation Underworld - Seaman Middle School

Honorable Mention

Conflict and Compromise: Title IX Put Into Effect - Mater Dei Catholic School

Senior Individual Documentary 

1st Place

Saving the "Boat People": The United States and Vietnam's Compromise on Vietnamese Refugees With the Orderly Departure Program - Seaman High School

2nd Place

The Invisible Man of the Civil Rights Movement - Seaman High School

3rd Place

Women Fighting Their Way to Gender Equality - Seaman High School

Senior Group Documentary 

1st Place

Reverend T.J. Jemison: Breaking Barriers in Baton Rough - Seaman High School

2nd Place

A Handshake in Space: Orbital Detente and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project - Seaman High School

3rd Place

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue: The Fight for Equality in the United States Military - Seaman High School

Honorable Mention

Giving Peace A Chance: Creating "Peace with Honor" in Vietnam - Seaman High School

Junior Individual Website 

1st Place

Emmett Louis Till: Conflict in Black America - Topeka Collegiate School

2nd Place

Darwin v. Wallace: Who Gets the Glory? - Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

Maya Lin: Conflict and Compromise of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Seaman Middle School

Junior Group Website

1st Place

Three Strikes and I'm Not Out: The Raye Jean Montague Story - Royal Valley Middle School

2nd Place

Japanese-American Internment Camps During WWII - Topeka Collegiate School

3rd Place

"The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"  - Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Website  

1st Place

Conflict and Compromise in Michelangelo's Last Judgment  - Washburn Rural High School

2nd Place

The Hidden Civil Rights Movement: American Indian Movement - Seaman High School

3rd Place

The 13 Days of Crisis  - Seaman High School

Senior Group Website

1st Place

Irene Sendler: Risking Personal Welfare in Order to Rescue Jewish Children  - Seaman High School 

2nd Place

The Korean Armistice: The Ceasefire That Became a Peace Treaty  - Seaman High School

3rd Place

District Three 2017 History Day Competition Results

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place

The "Tank Man" Taking a Stand in Tiananmen Square
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

Operation Gunnerside: Taking a Stand Against Nukes, Nazis and Norwegian Occupation in World War II
Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

London Takes a Stand: The Great Dock Strike of 1889
Washburn Rural Middle School

Senior Historical Paper

1st Place

Loving v. Virginia: Taking a Stand Hand in Hand
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose: An Influential Dissent Against Nazi Germany
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Irene Morgan: Standing Up for the Right to Sit
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

Permission to Pass: Sugihara's Actions to Protect the People
Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

I Had to Use a Rock: Carry Nation Standing Over Broken Glass
Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

John Ritchie - The Fight for Freedom
Topeka Collegiate

Junior Group Exhibit 

1st Place

Seeing is Believing: Lewis Hine's Fight to End the Injustice of Child Labor
Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

Samuel J. Crumbine: Taking a Stand for Your Health
Royal Valley Middle School

3rd Place

Muhammad Ali: Fight for the Fight
Mater Dei Catholic School

Senior Individual Exhibit   

1st Place

Arthur Capper: Champion of the Disabled
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Warren County: The Emergence of the Environmental Justice Era
Seaman High Schooll

3rd Place

The New Face of Feminism: Kurt Cobain
Silver Lake High School

Senior Group Exhibit

1st Place

Mother Jones: A March in the Stand for Workers' Rights
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Hitting the Color Barrier Out of the Park
Hayden High School

3rd Place

National Women's Suffrage Association: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Silver Lake High School

Junior Individual Performance 

1st Place

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. Vs. The Great Depression
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

Lise Meitner: Reaching Selflessly for Truth and Objectivity
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Aldeburgh's First Lady
Seaman Middle School

Junior Group Performance   

1st Place

The Railroad to Freedom
Mater Dei Catholic School

2nd Place

The Life of Alice Paul
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

A Good Man in Evil Times: The Heroic Actions of Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Washburn Rural Middle School

Senior Individual Performance

1st Place

Swingin' to a Stand
Seaman High School

Senior Group Performance

 1st Place

Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Taking a Stand for the Allied Forces
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Odette Sansom: Standing Up to Nazi Germany
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Documentary  

1st Place

Every Patient is My Brother
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Albert Goering: History's Disregarded Hero
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

More Than Just a Person: The Greatest Achievements of Nelson Mandela
Washburn Rural Middle School

Honorable Mention

Match Point: The Life and Legacy of Billie Jean King
Washburn Rural Middle School

Junior Group Documentary 

1st Place

Native Americans Taking a Stand in History
Royal Valley Middle School

2nd Place

Irene Sendler: Savior in the Sea of Blood
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Eliza Potter: Taking a Stand in the Heart of the Confederacy
Royal Valley Middle School

Senior Individual Documentary 

1st Place

Standing Up for the "Bui Doi": U.S. Representative Robert J. Mrazek's Impact on Vietnamese Americans with the American Homecoming Act
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Wes Jackson: Taking a Stand for the Land
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Taking a Stand by Taking a Seat: Claudette Colvin's Commitment to Racial Inequality in Regards to Bus Segregation
Seaman High School

Senior Group Documentary 

1st Place

Standing Up for the Workforce: Frances Perkin's Strides Towards Humane Labor Laws
Seaman High School

2nd Place

A Champion for the Working Class: Theodore Roosevelt's Stand Against Monopolization
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Jacob Riis: Champion for the Poor
Seaman High School

Honorable Mention

The Stand for Equality: Chief Justice Earl Warren's Leadership and His Fight for Desegregation
Seaman High School

The Battle for Equality: Representative John Lewis's Lifelong Legacy of Standing Up Against Injustice
Seaman High School

Eunice Kennedy Shriver: Taking a Stand for the Mentally Impaired Community
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Website 

1st Place

Desmond T. Doss: Far Above and Beyond - For God and Country
Christ The King

2nd Place

Muhammad Ali: Taking a Stand Against the Vietnam War
Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

Branch Rickey - Improving a Team, Changing a Sport
Topeka Collegiate

Junior Group Website

1st Place

The NAACP's Involvement in School Segregation
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

The Double Cross System: Espionage and Counterespionage
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

The Stonewall Rebellion
Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Website  

1st Place

Standing Up for the Rights of Others: The Life of Father Emil Kapaun
Seaman High School

2nd Place

A Couple's War Against the Nazis
Seaman High School

3rd Place

A Significant Hero of the Holocaust: Oskar Schindler's Fight Against the Nazi Regime
Seaman High School

Senior Group Website

1st Place

Waris Dirie: Taking a Stand Against Female Genital Mutilation
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Jenson v. Eveleth:  Taking a Stand Against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Larry Kramer: Taking a Stand Against AIDS Intolerance
Seaman High Schoo

District Three 2016 History Day Competition Results

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place

Bartolome de las Casas
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

From Barnstormer to Land Surveyor: The Exploration of Pilot Elrey Jeppesen
Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

The Monroe Doctrine: Its Uses in American Policy
Topeka Collegiate

Senior Historical Paper

1st Place

Don't Drink the Kool-Aid: How the People's Temple Changed the Way Cults are Encountered
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Martha Graham: A Revolutionary in Dance and Modern Art
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Jacobites and the Act of Union: The Encounter that Damaged Scottish Identity
Hayden High School

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

Bobby Fischer and the Cold War
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

Apollo 13: A Successful Failure
Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Topeka Collegiate

Honorable Mention

Ralph Waldo Gerard: Encountering, Exchanging and Exploring the Brain
Washburn Rural Middle School

Junior Group Exhibit 

1st Place

Exploring Democracy in Ancient Athens
Landon/Robinson Middle Schools

2nd Place

Exploring New Heights: The Engineering Behind the Skyline
Washburn Rural Middle School

Senior Individual Exhibit   

1st Place

Through Pen and Lens: Gordon Parks Encountering Inequality
Hayden High School

2nd Place

More Than Bones: The Mistreatment of the Smith Sound Inuits
Washburn Rural High Schooll

3rd Place

Financier of the American Revolution: Haym Salomon and His Heroic Actions
Seaman High School

Senior Group Exhibit

(No Entries This Year)

Junior Individual Performance 

1st Place

The Space Race: Exploration of the Final Frontier
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

"Traveling Down Freedom's Main Line"
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Trekking In and Out
Mater Dei Catholic School

Junior Group Performance   

1st Place

Susan B. Anthony: Exploring Women's Rights
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Miracles Out of Nowhere: Exploring the KANSAS Legacy
Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

Exploring the Life of Nellie Bly
Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Performance 

(No Entries This Year)

Senior Group Performance

 1st Place

Beatlemania
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Documentary  

1st Place

The Knox Coal Mine Disaster: Exploring the Consequences of Greed
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Exploring Severe Weather With the Legendary Mr. Tornado
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Tragedy and Greatness: The Encounters of Ron Klerk de Reus
Royal Valley Middle School

Honorable Mention

Title IX: Exploring Equality on the Playing Field
Seaman Middle School

Junior Group Documentary 

1st Place

"The Americans Are Very Strong"
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Heroes Don't Always Wear Capes: Dr. Frances Kelsey's Exploration and Determination
Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

Polio: Outbreaks in America
Seaman Middle School

Honorable Mention

Alan Turing: Exploring the Enigma
Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Documentary 

1st Place

Ex Parte Endo: A Journey Towards Justice for Japanese Americans
Washburn Rural High School

2nd Place

Hallelujah, I'm a Travelin': The Freedom Rider's Exploration of the Deep South
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Encountering Controversy: Juniperro Serra: A Man on a Mission
Hayden High School

Senior Group Documentary 

1st Place

Splitting the Atom: How the Largest Secret Research Program in History Ended the Second World War and Changed the Planet's Military and Science Forever
Seaman High School

2nd Place

The Crisis at Central High: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Eugene Lazowski the Unsung Hero of WWII: Initiating a Private War on Typhus to Save Thousands
Seaman High School

Honorable Mention

Cuban Missile Crisis: To the Brink of War
Seaman High School

Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Double-Helix
Seaman High School

Future for the Modern Farmer
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Website 

1st Place

Clyde Tombaugh's Exploration: The Encounter with Pluto and Beyond
Christ The King

2nd Place

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on America's Culture and Literature
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Jesse Owens: The Buckeye Bullet
Topeka Collegiate

Junior Group Website

1st Place

Exploring the Study of Viruses: Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

Sally Ride: The Woman Who Changed Space Exploration
Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

Stan Herd: Exploring Art Through Botanical Beauty
Washburn Rural Middle School

Senior Individual Website  

1st Place

Saving Infants One Score at a Time: The Exploration of Neonatal Care Through the Eyes of Virginia Apgar
Seaman High School

2nd Place

"Dr Livingstone, I Presume?": His Final Expedition
Washburn Rural High School

3rd Place

Overcoming Societal Views: Journey of War Brides During WWII
Seaman High School

Senior Group Website

1st Place

Cochlear Implants: Hope for the Hearing Impaired
Seaman High School

2nd Place

The Office of Strategic Services: Exploration Into a World of Espionage
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Rachel Carson and Her Fight for Environmental Change
Seaman High School

District Three 2015 History Day Competition Results

Junior Historical Paper

1st Place

Evolution of the Lobotomy: Martin Freeman's Controversial Procedure
Mater Dei Catholic School

2nd Place

Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom
Mater Dei Catholic School

3rd Place

"Her Deepness": Life and Leadership of Dr. Sylvia Earle
Mater Dei Catholic School

Senior Historical Paper

1st Place

Adolphus Busch: "Raise Your Glass to the King of Beer"
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Abe Fortas: Directing Justice
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Crazy Bet: A Yankee Spy in Richmond
Seaman High School 

Junior Individual Exhibit

1st Place

Cyrus K. Holliday: The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

The Leadership and Legacy of Nikola Tesla
Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

The Halo of Freedom and Light: The Leadership and Legacy of Kim Dae Jung
Washburn Rural Middle School

Junior Group Exhibit 

1st Place

Corie ten Boom: "The Measure of a Life in Not Its Duration, But Its Donation"
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Right Along Side: Ludwig Guttman and the Paralympic Games
Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

Jackie Robinson
Topeka Collegiate

Senior Individual Exhibit   

1st Place

Gloria Steinem: A Feminist's Tale
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Harvey Milk's Legacy on Equality for Gay Rights
Seaman High Schooll

3rd Place

Timothy Leary: The Idea Man
Seaman High School

Senior Group Exhibit

1st Place

Charles Loring Brace: The Father of Foster Care 
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Dorothy Harrison Eustis: Founder of the Seeing Eye 
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Phillip K. Wrigley: Preserving Baseball One Pitch at a Time
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Performance 

1st Place

MLK Leadership Through Legacy
Topeka Collegiate

2nd Place

Leadership and Legacy: An Alvin Alley Experience
Jardine Middle School

3rd Place

Marie Curie's Legacy 
Seaman Middle School

Junior Group Performance   

1st Place

"The Children of Silence Must Be Taught to Sing Their Own Songs"
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Elizabeth Blackwell: A Leader in the Medical Field
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Dorothea Dix: A Legacy for the Mentally Insane
Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Performance 

1st Place

Gloria Steinem: Jumping the Gender Gap 
Seaman High School

Senior Group Performance

 1st Place

Nothing But Magic: The Incredible Story of Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Robert Oppenheimer, Shatterer of Worlds
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Documentary  

1st Place

The Antiquities Act: An Act of the Past For the Future 
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Bob Dole: Bringing Equality to the Lives of All Americans with Disabilities 
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Bill Snyder: Mentoring Leadership, Creating a Legacy
Seaman Middle School

Junior Group Documentary 

1st Place

The Last of the Beautiful in Midwestern Psychology
Seaman Middle School

2nd Place

Success is Not Final, Failure is Not Fatal: The Words of Winston Churchill 
Seaman Middle School

3rd Place

Robert Crippen: Leading the Space Shuttle Program to Success 
Seaman Middle School

Senior Individual Documentary 

1st Place

Fighting to Feed the World: Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution 
Seaman High School

2nd Place

Establishing Equal Opportunities for All Genders: The Life and Legacy of Patsy Mink
Seaman High School

3rd Place

James Lane: Pioneering Patriot
Washburn Rural High School 

Senior Group Documentary 

1st Place

Tran Ngoc "Harry" Hue: Steadfast Leader for Liberty 
Seaman High School

2nd Place

A Champion of the Disabled: Senator Bob Dole's Leadership Towards a Passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act and Its Historic Legacy 
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Jacob Riis: Illuminating the Other Half 
Seaman High School

Junior Individual Website 

1st Place

Harry Colmery and the "Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944" (G. I. Bill of Rights)
Christ the King

2nd Place

Walt Disney: Pioneer of Animation 
Topeka Collegiate

3rd Place

Sam Walton and His Legacy 
Topeka Collegiate

Junior Group Website

1st Place

Advancing Treatment, Transforming Lives: The Legacy of the Menninger Clinic 
Washburn Rural Middle School

2nd Place

From a Small Town to the Big Screen: The Legacy of Hattie McDaniel
Washburn Rural Middle School

3rd Place

The Leadership of James Naismith, the Legacy of Basketball 
Topeka Collegiate

Senior Individual Website  

1st Place

Dr. Jonas Salk: The Father of Vaccination
Seaman High School

2nd Place

"And That's the Way It Is": The Leadership and Legacy of Walter Cronkite
Washburn Rural High School

3rd Place

Henrietta Lacks: The Immortal Woman
Seaman High School

Senior Group Website

1st Place

Dr. Alfred Blalock: Healing the Blues 
Seaman High School

2nd Place

"Rabble Rouser" Clair Cameron Patterson and the Fight Against Tetrethyl Lead 
Seaman High School

3rd Place

Fundi: The Lasting Legacy of Ella Baker 
Seaman High School