St. Ben’s students advance to State NHD

Thursday, April 6, 2023 8:37 am

Thirty-eight 6-8th grade St. Benedict students participated in the regional National History Day (NHD) competition on Tuesday, March 22 at Northeast Iowa Community College.
Twenty-four students were chosen to compete at the state competition which will be held April 24 in Des Moines. The theme for this  year’s competition was: “Frontiers In History: People, Places, Ideas.”

Honorees include:

Dawson Irons with Jim Thorpe Changing Frontiers of Racism in Sports (Exhibit)
Audrey Essa, Brinlee Courtner and Willow Blair with Amelia Bloomer: “Breeching” the
Frontier in Women’s Reform (Exhibit)
Ray Hayek and Lucas Weigle with X-Rays:Stepping Forward into a Medical Frontier
(Exhibit)
Andy Carolan and Gabe Monroe with The Remarkable Agricultural Frontier of Seed Corn
(Exhibit)
Maggie Gavle with Clara Barton Founding the Frontier for the American Red Cross
(Documentary)
Nessa Kane with Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (Documentary)
Kalin Harman and Rex LaFrentz with Pasteurization: Reshaping the Dairy Industry
(Documentary)
Bennett Coppola and Jalen Klees with Jackie Robinson: The Frontier of African-Americans
in Professional Baseball (Documentary)
Margaret Hahn and Vivian Searcy with Hedy Lemarr and the Secret Communications
System: Technology that Revolutionized Wireless Communication (Performance)
Gracelynn Tangen and Molly Kuehner with Katherine Johnson: Pioneering NASA
Mathematician (Performance)
Carlton Nordschow and Eden Northup with Mayo Clinic: A Disaster’s Answer to Medical
Excellence (Website)
Gage Hartley and Roman Remington with The Frontier of the Radio (Website)
Bill Fullhart and William Kruse with The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 – A New Electrical
Frontier (Website)

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