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Minnesota History Day was Sunday, April 27 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. SPPS was well represented and several students and staff were recognized. SPPS has three projects advancing to National History Day in June; Murray Middle School student Scout Murch-Gordon's Junior Individual Exhibit on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Open World Learning student Jae Lind's Senior Individual Performance on Women's Menus, and OWL Senior Group Performance by Charley Cheatham and Abby Horton on the Jane Collective will all compete at the National Contest.

Capitol Hill, Murray Middle School, American Indian Magnet and OWL all had students place in the top five in the State or win a topical prize. Students from Battle Creek Middle School, Global Arts Plus Upper Campus, Harding Senior High School, Hidden River Middle School, Tjux Ci HMong Language and Culture Upper Campus, Washington Technology Magnet School also performed well.

Harding High School's Betsy Dadabo earned the State Media Specialist of the Year Award.

List of SPPS Minnesota History Day participants at State level:

American Indian Magnet School

• Alonzo Rueda, Brayan Miranda Barrera, Theodore Yang (The Vietnam War)
• Antonio Abitong, Carlos Evans, Elijah Austin, Isiah Vanwert Fulliam, Jere'siiah Lepley (Muhammad Ali)
• Gaochiacha Lo  (Secret War in Laos)
• Carmen Houston, Iyanna Banks, Laura Tamana, Mai Der Xiong, Raniyah Abdullah (The Advancement of Women's Rights and How Barbie Took Responsibility for Representation)
• Jessica Alvaranga Chacon - (The Futbol War)
• Mary McCleave (Maria Tallchief: A Prima Ballerina)

Battle Creek Middle School

• Konoor Vang (Hmong Secret War)
• Mateo Barrios Alvarez (FDR and the New Deal)

Capitol Hill Magnet School

• Anya Kae-Sands, Aurelia Dehn, Guinevere LeVitre (1982 Chinatown Garment Workers Strike)
• Catherine Bryson, Lilian Bistodeau, Nora Czarniecki (The Ruling of Roe v. Wade) - State 5th Place
• Marji Hadi-Iyer (Making the March on Washington for Everyone: Anna Arnold Hedgeman and Her Letter) - State 5th Place
• Nora Dudley, Thora Barry (The Love Canal)

Global Arts Plus Upper Campus

• Alyvia Olness Bowen, Lilah Panitzke (The Articles of Confederation)
• Matthew Farmer (The Housing Act of 1949)

Harding Senior High School

• Khunnaphat Muepae (The Espionage of Klaus Fuchs)

Hidden River Middle School

• Edna Mbangwana, Pierre Murray, Thora Schwalm (The Salem Witch Trials of 1692: The Shadow of Fear and the Superstition Over Human Rights)

Highland Park Middle School

• Charlie Egbert, Otto Mayer (The Brawl that Changed it All) 
• Edie Rapacz, Lucie Giambelluca, Ruby Aligada (The Seneca Falls Convention)
• Evelyn Robinson, Iris DelCogliano, Josephine Feliciano, Vivian Buckwald (Romania’s Orphan Crisis)
• Lorelei Steiner (Griswold vs. Connecticut)
• Louise Wallraff - Highland Park Middle School (The 19th Amendment)
• Penelope Crandall (The Invention of Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
• Violet Beger (Passing of the Passenger Pigeon)

Murray Middle School

• Adrian Johnson, Duncan Peterson, Henry Leach (The Battle of Passchendaele)
• Alana Kennedy, Alice Van Keerbergen, Georgia Kountoupesruddy (Anna Freud: A Child's Right to Childhood)
• Anna Patronski (Dorothy Molter: Woman of the Woods)
• Charles Anderson, Emmett Loth, Peter Laska (Assuring the Rights to Clean Water)
• Charlotte Stevenson (Goodridge v. The Department of Public Health)
• Erik Bollman (Norman Borlaug: Rights Responsibilities)
• Ethan Dotzauer (Racial Covenants in the Twin Cities)
• Evelyn Amman Steger (The Divorce Colony)
• Felix Mortensen   (Hinkley Burns!!)
• Hazel Collins, Maja Johnson, Mary Grace Lindsley (The (Not So) Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
• Ingrid Sheu, Narah Ailabouni (The Right to Mail)
• Ja’Mel Williams, Javier Cerda, Robinson Courtney (The National Park Service)
• Joselyn MoralesTlacual, Julianna Caballero, Marleny Jaramillo, Ria James (The Chicano Movement)
• Jonathan Nurilign (Miranda v. Arizona)
• Louisa Lindfors, Petra Mueller (The Big Sandy Lake Tragedy of 1850)
• Lu Beckman (Frankenstein: A Scientific Responsibility)
• Lucia Barnes (The Miracle on Ice)
• Rohan Stebleton (The Hormel P-9 Strike)
• Scout Murch-Gordon - (The Equal Credit Opportunity Act)
• Shannon Saeger (The Sister Kenny Institute)
• Sofia Mortensen (First Avenue)
• Sylvia Mcroberts (Esther Peterson: The Right to Equal Pay)

Open World Learning

• Abby Horton, Charley Cheatham (Jane: How an Underground Abortion Service Impacted Rights and Responsibilities in Women’s Healthcare) - State 2nd Place, National Qualifier
• Abigail Macleod, Elizabeth Bedard, Rose Whitten (Sister Elizabeth Kenny’s Method for Polio)
• Aeris Hendricks, Ehna Sommerville (UDHR)
• Alexandra Windingstad, Maren Sletten (Sesame Street and the Change to Educational Children’s Television)
• Alice Mounes (If You See Someone Drowing Save Them: Irena Sendler Fight for the Children)
• Alva Healy (Soviet Collectivization: The Cost to Ukrainians)
• Anya Robertson, Claire Ales (May 68: How France Took Responsibility for Their Rights)
• Asa Hannert-Dawson, Matteo Alejandro-Provenzano, Sam Oseguer (El Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico)
• Bahati Stalheim, Frances Healy, Rocio Hernandez (The Americans with Disabilities Act)
• Ciaran Sherman-Conroy, Otis Olson (March on Washington)
• Constance Van Genderen (-10,000,000: China’s One-Child-Policy)
• Finnley Frolek, Sally Keenan (Las Mariposas: Three Sisters Who Inspired Democracy)
• Emily Totushek, Kathryn Totushek (The Tanzimat Reforms: Expanding Ottoman Rights and Introducing Civic Responsibilities)
• Isiah Molina, Khalyse Calloway, Sir Nakhai Guy-Cornelious (Black Panther Party)
• Jae Lind (Women’s Menus) - State 2nd Place, National Qualifier
• Julia Umut-Bejarano (Love Canal: The Fight for Environmental Justice)
• Maggie Jansen (The Good Friday Agreement: The Role of Rights and Responsibilities in Sectarian Violence)
• Margaret Moe ('Willowbrook; The Last Great Disgrace') - State 5th Place
• Oliver Larson, Theo McLaughlin, Wolf Cisney (Oliver Larson, Theo McLaughlin, Wolf Cisney)
• Pawsana Lay (The Tylenol Murders)
• Soren Sommerville, Torin Keis (Soren Sommerville, Torin Keis)

Tjux Ci HMong Language and Culture Upper Campus

• Lillian Her, NkaujNtxhee Her (Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Washington Technology Magnet School

• Edna Guevara, Tenesha Clement (Beyond the Homefront: Women in WWI)
• Melanie Chanderpaul, Tereena Clement (National Organization of Women (NOW))