Northshore students participated in the North Puget Sound Regional History Day competition on March 21 and will advance to the state competition held May 5 at Bellevue College. Students competed at either the junior (grades 6-8) or senior (grades 9-12) level in the following categories: exhibits, papers, multi-media documentaries, original performances and Web sites. This year’s theme was “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.”

Northshore School District state qualifiers, home school, project category, project name, and award are:

• Junior Paper

Katie Kowalsky, Canyon Park Junior High School, “We Can Do It: The Revolution and Reform of Women Working,” fifth place; Tobin Hansen, Kenmore Junior High School, “The Maxim Machine Gun Student,” fourth place; Xin Yi Chen, Kenmore Junior High School, “Rural Free Delivery,” third place

• Junior Individual Documentary

Allyson Wheaton, Timbercrest Junior High School, “Sputnik: The Revolution That Got American Into Space,: fourth place; Sarah Evered, Northshore Junior High School, “Prohibition: Too Tempting To Last,” third place; Erin Edmonds, Northshore Junior High School, “The Revolution of Grunge: Keeping it Real,” second place; Cindy Kuang, Northshore Junior High School, “Cubism: Revealing the Truth Through Abstraction,: first place

• Junior Group Documentary

Abbey Dias and Mia Silverberg, Timbercrest Junior High School, “How Will We End Malaria?: The Mosquito Net,” third place; Tim Player and Alec Dietz, Timbercrest Junior High School, “World War II Bombing: A Legacy of Sorrow,” third place; Benjamin Tinker and Daniel Matthewson, Northshore Junior High School, “The Tianamen Square Massacre: China’s Struggle for Democracy,” second place Mondona Behroozian and Olivia Banks, Timbercrest Junior High School, “The Hubble Space Telescope,” first place

• Junior Individual Performance

Sophia Konat, Northshore Junior High School, “The Emancipation Proclamation: A Revolutionary Step on the Staircase of Freedom,” third place; Emily Chapple, Northshore Junior High School, “Born of War: The Penicillin Revolution,:” second place; Megan Hastie, Timbercrest Junior High School, “Agnes DeMille: Turning the Dance World,” first place

• Junior Individual Exhibit

Cailin Jewell, Canyon Park Junior High School, “Asch to Ashes the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire,” third place; Jennifer Chen, Northshore Junior High School, “Exposing the Asylum,” third place; Laura Dachenhausen, Canyon Park Junior High School, “Music of the Peace Movement,” second place; Aidan Cowles, Timbercrest Junior High School, “Klondike Gold Rush: Seattle Grows with Gold,” second place; Erin Lee, Timbercrest Junior High School, “The National Congress of Mothers: A Revolution in Child Welfare and Education,” first place; Abbey Carson, Timbercrest Junior High School, “Medic One: Revolutionizing Pre-Hospital Care for Heart Attack Patients,” first place

• Junior Group Exhibit

Connor McGibbon, Alex Steiner, Jack Pence and Hemanth Kalathil, Canyon Park Junior High School, “A Whole New Ball Game: The Negro Baseball Revolution,” fourth place; Mady Martin and Abby Purvis, Leota Junior High School, “Nicholas Copernicus: Leader of the Scientific Revolution,” second place

• Junior Individual Web Site

Ryan Magennis, Northshore Junior High School, “An Evolution: Computer Crime and Punishment,” second place; Karl Skeel, Timbercrest Junior High School, “Seattle’s Role in the Klondike Gold Rush: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform,” second place

• Junior Group Web Site

Jonathan Aiken and Tanner Simon, Timbercrest Junior High School, “Nuclear Power: The Future of Energy,” fifth place; Reid Anderson and Alex Nguyen, Northshore Junior High School, “The Grand Coulee Dam: The Greatest Energy Producer of its Time,” third place; Brooke Musburger and Bella Senturia, Timbercrest Junior High School, “1961 Freedom Rides: Journey to Racial Equality,” first place

• Senior Individual Performance

Hannah Piatok, Timbercrest Junior High School, “National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: A Revolution in Children’s Security,” first place

• Senior Individual Web Site

Makenzie Ley, Canyon Park Junior High School, “The Revolution of Special Effects: George Melies,” third place

• Women’s History

Katie Kowalsky, Canyon Park Junior High School, Junior Paper, “We Can Do It: The Revolution and Reform of Women Working During World War II”; Srishti Mathur, Canyon Park Junior High School, Senior Paper, “Suffragists in the Spotlight: People and Strategies That Gained Washington Women’s Voting Rights”