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Washington State Contest Winners 2008

1st place:

Erin Altenhof-Long, Junior Individual Documentary, Water, Words and Wars: The Aswan High Dam, Wy'east Middle School, Vancouver

Mikah Washburn & Greg Schachterle, Junior Group Documentary, Navajo Code Talkers, Wy'east Middle School, Vancouver

Nathan Cherzan, Junior Individual Exhibit, Publicly Neutral, Secretly Preparing for War, Pleasant Valley Middle School, Battle Ground

Madalyn Schei & Emily Najar, Junior Group Exhibit, Kindertransport: Compromise Between Nations to Save Children of the Holocaust, Stanwood Middle School, Stanwood

Simone Prince-Eichner, Junior Individual Performance, Hunting the Whale: The Impact of Commercial Whaling on the Makah Nation--Conflict, Compromise and Culture, Prince Home School, Lummi Island

Maddie Bear, Alyssa Crosby & Anna Tran, Junior Group Performance, Abigail Scott Duniway: A Life of Conflicts and Compromises, Pleasant Valley Middle School, Battle Ground

Jeremy Deal, Junior Historical Paper, Chief Joseph: Conflict and Compromise in the Nez Perce War, Academy Northwest, Marysville

Laura Harkins, Junior Website, Dances of History: The Conflict of Culture and the Compromise of a Community, Coupeville Middle School, Coupeville

Adrianna Royal, Senior Individual Documentary, Conflict to Compromise: Italian Service Units During World War II, Home Connection, Coupeville

Connor Tasoff & Jordan Lamb, Senior Group Documentary, Developing a Compromise: A Community is Forced to Consider its Future, Coupeville High School, Coupeville

Rachel Haensly, Senior Individual Exhibit, The Construction of the Alaskan Highway: How the Construction in the Face of Conflict led to the Further Integration of the Military, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

Tamara Jansen, Breanne Harris & Casey Bridenbaugh, Senior Group Exhibit, The Wall: Conflict and Compromise Heal a Nation, Stanwood High School, Stanwood

Claire Haynie, Senior Individual Performance, "All Is Well": Pondering the Path of the Mormon Handcart Companies, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

Julia Roper & Lauren Olson, Senior Group Performance, Jackie Cochran: The Sky is the Limit, Lynden High School, Lynden

Dana Floberg, Senior Historical Paper, Peace vs. Justice: A Compromise of Principles in the Treaty of Versailles, Canyon Park Junior High, Bothell

Bojan Francuz & Ryan Knott, Senior Website, Dayton Peace Accords: A Compromise that Brought a Tentative Peace to the Balkams, Stanwood High School, Stanwood

2nd place:

Nathan Maris, Junior Individual Documentary, The Battle of Wake Island: Conflict and Compromise of the Marine Credo, International Community School, Kirkland

Miranda Lan & Callie Hamilton, Junior Group Documentary, Women's Suffrage: The Struggle in America for Gender Equality, Wy'east Middle School, Vancouver

Ryan Scott, Junior Individual Exhibit, D-Day: Planning the Attack, King's Way Christian School, Vancouver

Helen Lee & Sophie Fleuret, Junior Group Exhibit, Varsity Victory Volunteers: The Battle for the Right to Fight, Timbercrest Junior High, Woodinville

Tessa King, Junior Individual Performance, Echoing Silent Spring: The Conflict and Compromise over the Wholesale Poisoning of America, Sunrise Elementary, Redmond

Erin Blackford, Desiree Dhanens & Anna Dmitriyeva, Junior Group Performance, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, CAM Jr. High, Vancouver

Hilary Smith, Junior Historical Paper, Taking on the Courts . . . and THE MEN: Belva Lockwood's Conflicts and Compromises in Laws and Politics, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Tanner McMullen, Kyle Schmitt & Theo Edmison, Junior Website, The Blight Bites: the Irish Potato Famine, Poulsbo Middle School, Poulsbo

Ruthie Hawley, Senior Individual Documentary, Rachel Carson's Life and Legacy: Conflict and Compromise, Klahowya Secondary School, Silverdale

Olivia Boots & Rachel Haugland, Senior Group Documentary, Makah Whaling: The Enduring Battle for Tribal Sovereignty, Sequim High School, Sequim

Blake Allen, Senior Individual Exhibit, Red Cloud - Warrior and Statesman, Kentridge High School, Kent

Amy Christianson & Audrey Christianson, Senior Group Exhibit, The Spotted Owl: The Conflict that Caused Life Changing Compromise, Christianson Home School, Stanwood

Emily Kreifels, Senior Individual Performance, Rosie the Riveter: The Conflicts and Compromise of the American Homefront, Klahowya Secondary School, Silverdale

Grace Salisbury, Kasey Harrison & Abby Wyatt, Senior Group Performance, Bread and Roses, Bainbridge High School, Bainbridge

Meghan Hiegler, Senior Historical Paper, Imperial Compromise: The Conflict to Uphold Arab Nationalism in the Aftermath of the Great War, Stanwood High School, Stanwood

Kane Thomas, Senior Website, Failed Negotiation: Conflict, Compromise & Conflict on Rwanda, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

3rd place:

Samvit Jain, Junior Individual Documentary, American Involvement in Vietnam: The Conflicts and Compromises of Foreign Policy and Domestic Concerns, Redmond Junior High, Redmond

Kyle Knies & Karl Johnson, Junior Group Documentary, Dred Scott: A Personal Fight, A Defining Compromise, Mattson Middle School, Kent

Samantha Podlucky, Junior Individual Exhibit, The Indian Removal Act: Cherokees Walk A Long Trail of Tears, Sunrise Elementary, Remond

Shannelle Cayetano & Alex Hastings, Junior Group Exhibit, Behind Barbed Wire: The Story of Camp Harmony, Mattson Middle School, Kent

Lorah Steichen, Junior Individual Performance, The Lowell Mills: Offering Compromise and Conflict, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Amanda d'Almeida & Toni Lynn Clark, Junior Group Performance, Conflict Within A Conflict: DeVoe and Hutton Win Over Washington, Coupeville Middle School, Coupeville

Jamie Mackiewicz, Junior Historical Paper, Melba Pattillo of the Little Rock Nine: A Constitutional Conflict, CAM Jr. High, Vancouver

Hunter Glazener, Junior Website, Making Voices Heard: How Nelson Mandela Overcame the Racist Apartheid Regime to Bring Equality to a Torn Nation, Canyon Park Junior High, Bothell

Stephanie Malaska, Senior Individual Documentary, Betting the Nation: America's Gamble Against the Barbary Pirates, Eastside Catholic High School, Sammamish

Tian Kisch & Darien French-Owen, Senior Group Documentary, Tension in the Mines: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, Redmond Junior High, Redmond

Koki Oizumi, Senior Individual Exhibit, Conflict and Compromise Mahatma Gandhi: The Path of Peace, Bethel Junior High School, Spanaway

Lucas Shores-McKinney & Emily Reis, Senior Group Exhibit, Celilo Falls: 150 Years of Conflict and Compromise, Sequim High School, Sequim

Alex Rattray, Senior Individual Performance, The 1948 Arab-Israeli War A Persecuted People Overcoming all Odds, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

Shelby Foote & Marisa Goshorn, Senior Group Performance, The Road to Equality: Conflict and Compromise in the Struggle for Women's Suffrage, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

Mike Boček, Senior Historical Paper, Spy in the Sky: The U-2 Incident, Seattle Preparatory School, Seattle

Bishal Upadhyaya, Senior Website, The Wrong Decision, Kentridge High School, Kent

4th place:

Ionatan Kuperwajs, Junior Individual Documentary, The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: The Quest for Compromise in the Middle East, Sunrise Elementary, Redmond

Preetum Nakkiran, Rohit Arabind & Henry Brown, Junior Group Documentary, Conflict in Kashmir: The Gordian Knot of the East, Redmond Junior High School, Redmond

Trevor Consoliver, Junior Individual Exhibit, Reintroduction of Wolves into Yellowstone National Park, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Mary Nguyen, Thomas Nguyen, Jordan Dawkins & Jennifer Diep, Junior Group Exhibit, Bakke vs. UC-Davis, McKnight Middle School, Renton

Molly Barger, Junior Individual Performance, Bergmann in Berlin: The Story of the 1936 Olympics, Explorer Middle School, Everett

Emily Ma, Hannah Miles, Siarra Spruill-Orange & Taylor McManus, Junior Group Performance, The Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment: The Fight for Legal Representation and Egalitarianism in the United States, Wy'east Middle School, Vancouver

Eric Kelley, Junior Historical Paper, The Hanford Conflict: Conflict and Compromise at the Nation's Most Contaminated Nuclear Site, International Community School, Kirkland

Raquel Cummins & Jackie Merrill, Junior Website, The Conflict of Pearl Harbor and the Compromise of Entering World War II, Cedar Heights Middle School, Kent

Anand Raghuraman, Senior Individual Documentary, The Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Brink of World's End, Redmond Junior High, Redmond

Sarah Roper & Natalie Witte, Senior Group Documentary, Lech Walesa: The Man Who Compromised Communism, Lynden High School, Lynden

Sara Finkleman, Senior Individual Exhibit, The Great Raid, Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma

Anna McCracken & Roxanne Medina, Senior Group Exhibit, The Tacoma Method: Conflict and Compromise of Chinophobia, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Joey Schultz, Senior Individual Performance, Seperation of Church and State, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Keira Tideman & Kelsey Carrao, Senior Group Performance, Kenny Johnson, Austin Le, Hawaii: A Culture Lost to Deceit and Treachery, Shorecrest High School, Shoreline

Arthur Stacey, Senior Historical Paper, Freedom to Hate: Constitutional Protection of Hate Speech in Skokie, Illinois, Seattle Preparatory School, Seattle

Parker Steichen, Jin-Hua (Niki) Lin & Luke Karella, Senior Website, A History of Strife, Sequim High School, Sequim

5th place:

Carly Vela, Junior Individual Documentary, A Society Uncorked, Mattson Middle School, Kent

Lorenzo Gonzalez & Byron Boots, Junior Group Documentary, The Week the World Stopped: The Conflict of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Secret Compromise Between Khruschev and Kennedy, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Hailey Estes, Junior Individual Exhibit, Fading Dreams: The Ghost Dance Religion Among the Sioux, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Jennie Kim, Amanda Reynolds, Isabella Brown & Vita Shubin, Junior Group Exhibit, The Pursuit for Power: The 1962 October Crisis, Redmond Junior High, Redmond

Savannah Warren-Suitonu, Junior Individual Performance, Harriet Beecher Stowe: I Will Write Something, I Will, If I Live!, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Kelsey Boisvin, Megan Ingalls, Maddie Sharp & Maria Molina, Junior Group Performance, Hooverville's Legacy, Mattson Middle School, Kent

Jessica Jin, Junior Historical Paper, Hong Kong: A Work in Progress between Conflicting Cultures, International Community School, Kirkland

Karin Hokanson, Allison Blair & Tennessee-Taylor Chan, Junior Website, Kennewick Man: Conflict and Compromise over One of America's Oldest Skeletons, International Community School, Kirkland

Laura Rohrer, Senior Individual Documentary, Embracing Conflict and Learning to Compromise: Margaret Sanger's Crusade for Birth Control, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

Wade Schultz, Teague Nelson & Senior Group Documentary, A Lasting Peace: The Good Friday Accords bring Compromise to a Traditional and Turbulent Conflict, Stanwood High School, Stanwood

Dominique Amor, Senior Individual Exhibit, Hurdles in History: Patsy Mink's Influence on American Society, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

Kevin Shotwell & Jesstine Yost, Senior Group Exhibit, The Boldt Decision: Conflict and Compromise over Native American Treaty Fishing Rights, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Tony Deal, Senior Individual Performance, The Medicine Creek Treaty: Conflicts and Failed Compromises between Governor Stevens and Chief Leschi, Academy Northwest, Marysville

Kayla Reopelle & Widaad Osman, Senior Group Performance, Truth and Reconciliation: Conflict and Compromise Healing the Wounds of Apartheid, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Max Churaisin, Senior Historical Paper, The Yalta Conference and Roosevelt, Kentridge High School, Kent

Stephen Lazaro, Evan Leon, Allyson Kim, Owen Pragel & Carl Backen, Senior Website, Treaty of Versailles: A Carthiginian Peace, Shorecrest High School, Shorline

6th place:

Kyu Kim, Junior Individual Documentary, The Nez Perce in Contemporary America: A View of their Ongoing Conflicts, Redmond Junior High, Redmond

Greg Warns & Benjamin Ellerby, Junior Group Documentary, A Fight of Faith: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Poulsbo Middle School, Poulsbo

Langdon Wright, Junior Individual Exhibit, Camp David Accords, Academy Northwest, Marysville

Megan Sterner & Melody Berezyuk, Junior Group Exhibit, The Compromise of 1850, Lynnwood Elementary, Lynnwood

Ashley Peterson, Junior Individual Performance, Testifying in the Trials: A Survivor's Account of Nuremberg, Explorer Middle School, Everett

Helen Petersen, Gabe Beck & Jessica Miklas, Junior Group Performance, Union and Labor Conflicts: Resolved by the Stuenberg Trial, Housel Middle School, Prosser

Noah Powers, Junior Historical Paper, Rwandan Genocide: The Compromise After the Horror, West Valley Junior High, Yakima

Bethel Abraham, Junior Website, A Battle Between Brothers: The Ethiopian-Eritrean 30-Year Conflict, Canyon Park Junior High, Bothell

Christian Ie, Senior Individual Documentary, Blood and Black Sand, Kentridge High School, Kent

Bo Johnson, Omri Nimni, Trey Knowles, Jacob Farris & Joe McConaughy, Senior Group Documentary, Kennedy's War of Peace, Shorecrest High School, Shoreline

Tanis Leonhardi, Senior Individual Exhibit, Israel: The Compromise that Led To Never-Ending Conflict, Shorewood High School, Shoreline

Amanda Hodges & Michelle LeAnna, Senior Group Exhibit, Colton Markham, Conflict and Compromise Between Men of Power, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Aleashia De La Vergne, Senior Individual Performance, Homosexuality: A History of Conflict and Compromise, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Laila Stuart & Quinn Sommerfeld, Senior Group Performance, The Red Cross: International Compromise in Times of Conflict, Bethel High School, Spanaway

Donna Horning, Senior Historical Paper, The Space Race: A Battle for World Ideological Influence, Bainbridge High School, Bainbridge

JJ Scott & Joey Sharpe, Senior Website, A Community in Conflict: The Hanford Nuclear Site Story, Mount Spokane High School, Mead

National Contest Winners 2008

Gold

Amy Christianson & Audrey Christianson, Senior Group Exhibit, Christianson Home School, Stanwood

Laura Harkins, Junior Website, Coupeville Middle School, Coupeville

Silver

Simone Prince-Eichner, Junior Individual Performance, Prince Home School, Lummi Island

Bronze

Dana Floberg, Senior Historical Paper, Bothell High School, Bothell

Hillary Smith, Junior Historical Paper, Sequim Middle School, Sequim

Fourth Place

Tessa King, Junior Individual Performance, Sunrise Elementary, Redmond

Fifth Place

Helen Lee & Sophie Fleuret, Junior Group Exhibit, Sunrise Elementary, Redmond

Sixth Place

Ruthie Hawley, Senior Individual Documentary, Klahowya Secondary School, Silverdale

Seventh Place

Anna Tran, Alyssa Crosby & Maddie Bear, Junior Group Performance, Pleasant Valley Middle School, Battle Ground

Seventh Place

Erin Altenhof-Long, Junior Individual Documentary, Wy’east Middle School, Vancouver

Eighth Place

Emily Najar & Madalyn Schei, Junior Group Exhibit, Port Susan Junior High, Stanwood

Tenth Place

Ryan Knott & Bojan Francuz, Senior Website, Stanwood High School, Stanwood

Thirteenth Place

Emily Kreifels, Senior Individual Performance, Klahowya Secondary School, Silverdale

United States Marine Corps History Special Prize

Nathan Maris, International Community School, Kirkland

*David van Tassel Scholarship

Amy Christianson, Christianson Home School, Stanwood

* A four-year, all-expenses-paid scholarship to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio

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