Staff Reports
FRANKLIN — Six Brown County Intermediate, two Brown County Junior High and 13 Brown County High School students are among the finalists of the National History Day in Indiana south region contest.
About 150 students took part in the contest March 9 at Franklin College; finalists will compete in the NHDI state contest Saturday, April 13 at the University of Indianapolis.
NHDI is a yearlong program dedicated to enhancing history education in Indiana’s schools. Students in Grades 4 through 12 explore a historical subject and then use their research to create a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance or website. To reach the state contest, students must qualify at one of six regional contests around Indiana.
Local finalists are:
Youth Individual Exhibit
Alayna Jacobus, Brown County Intermediate School, “Michigan: From Cold to Scorching — The Great Thumb Fire of 1881”
Kendra Earnshaw, BCIS, “The USS Forrestal: An Embarrassment to Learn From”
Youth Group Website
Genevieve Laguna and Alivia Workman, BCIS, “Vincent Van Gogh: An Artist’s Tragic Quest for Success”
Junior Group Exhibit
Taylor Lucas and Mackinzie Knaus, BCIS, “The Challenger’s Catastrophe Changes the Space Program Forever”
Junior Individual Website
Madalyn Purlee, Brown County Junior High School, “Flying Under the Radar: WASPs Shattering Gender Barriers in WWII”
Aidan Schilling, BCJHS, “The Conquered Communist: Leon Trotsky”
Senior Paper
Cassidy Davis, Brown County High School, “Rhoda Coffin and the Reformation of Indiana’s Women’s Prisons”
Senior Group Documentary
Natalie Suding and Emelia Koester, BCHS, “The Hoosier Tornado that Swept Through the Nation”
Senior Individual Documentary
Lilee Deloach, BCHS, “The Radium Girls”
Senior Group Exhibit
Claire Dannelly and Katie Goodwin, BCHS, “Kent State Massacre: Standing United in Times of Turmoil”
Senior Individual Exhibit
Chloee Robison, BCHS, “Yu Gwan Sun and the March First Movement: The Triumph and Tragedy of Peaceful Resistance”
Senior Group Website
Calla Imming and Morgan Wilson, BCHS, “The Studebaker Brothers”
Lauren Akles and Kaylen Combest, BCHS, “The Angel of Death”
Senior Individual Website
Theo Buller, BCHS, “The First Iraqi Republic”
Abigail Angerbrandt, BCHS, “‘United in this Determination and with Unshakeable Faith …’ The Story of the Battle of the Bulge”
