JACKSON HOLE, WYO – Write this down in history: TCSD#1 students know their past.
After hosting the Regional National History Day competition for Region 7 back in March, TCSD #1 students participated in the statewide competition at the University of Wyoming on April 10.
In total, 10 middle school students and 13 high school students earned places in the national competition to take place at the University of Maryland in June.
Congrats, kids! Well done.
2017 State Competitors from Jackson Hole Middle School
Junior Individual Exhibits
2nd Place – Daniela Garcia: “The Undercover Hero: Rose Valland’s Journey to Saving Stolen Art”
Junior Individual Performance
2nd Place – Ruby Erskine: “Sally Ride Science: Standing Up for Girls in STEAM”
Junior Individual Website
2nd Place – MaryGrace Beastrom: “OSHA: Taking a Stand to Save American Workers”
Junior Group Exhibits
1st Place – Madeline Webb, Tilli Rossetti and Olivia Roberts: “Alice Paul: Taking a Stand for Women’s Rights”
2nd Place – Annika Peacock and Skye Eddy: “Operation Vittles: Standing Up to Stop the Spread of Communism”
Junior Group Website
2nd Place – Colter Dawson & Jack Brown: “Andrew van der Bijl: Standing Up Against Communism to Preserve Christianity”
2017 State Competitors from Jackson Hole High School
Senior Individual Documentary
State Champion – River Gayton: “Race, Religion, and College Football: The Black 14 Taking a Stand for Change in the Equality State”
(Also a cash award for the best project on Wyoming History)
Senior Group Documentary
State Champion – Maya Wheeler/Sophie Delahaye: “Standing with Weapons and Standing with Words: Chief Red Cloud’s Stand to Save his Land and People Before and After the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868”
Senior Individual Performance
State Champion – Gabe Lewis: “Edward Cope and Othaniel Marsh: Taking a Stand for Themselves in the Bone Wars”
Senior Group Performance
2nd Place – Emily Ransom/Shannon Greene: “Taking a Stand for their Town: The Petticoat Government of Jackson Hole”
Senior Individual Exhibit
State Champion – Aspen Waldron: “E.T. Payton’s Good Work: Standing Against Abuse and for New Treatments in the Wyoming State Hospital”
2nd Place – Lyla Kirkpatrick: “God Hates Angels? Unity through the Angel Action in the Face of the Westboro Baptist Church Protests”
Senior Group Exhibit
2nd Place – Reisha Foertsch/Samantha Schmidt: “The Congressional Testimony of Mardy Murie: Taking a Stand for the Alaskan Wilderness and its Alliance to the Power of Place”
Senior Individual Website
2nd Place – Steven Ashurst: “Jackson Hole National Monument: Taking a Stand for Local Control”
Senior Group Website
State Champion – Megan Dufault/Quinn Ellingson: “The Laramie Project: Using the Power of Theater to Take a Stand Against Gay Hate Crimes and the Westboro Baptist Church”
