Students from the Lawrence school district fared well in a Feb. 26 National History Day district contest. Twenty-nine Lawrence students qualified for the state competition in April in Abilene. Students who win first or second place there advance to the national contest in Washington, D.C.

These Lawrence students advanced to state:

• Senior paper: second place, Michael Brock, Lawrence High School, “Battle Cry of an Historian: Professor Malin’s Fight to Save History.”
• Junior individual performance: first place, Maude Thomas, Central Junior High School, “The Effect of Communication on the Inuit Culture of Greenland.”
• Junior group performance: first place, Gypsy Williams-Ratzlaff, Martha Allen and Mattie Casad, CJHS; “Echoes of Broadway.” Second place, Sara Cortese and Hannah Lodwick, CJHS, “Charlie Chaplin: Communicating Through Laughter.”
• Senior group performance: first place, Matthias Heilke and Alex Webster, LHS, “Obvious Lies: Failure of Communication in the 1936 Olympics.”
• Senior individual performance: first place, Timmia Hearn Feldman, CJHS, “Unlocking the Door: Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan’s Key to Communication.” Second place, Laura Parkinson, LHS, “Nellie Bly: Bring Da Broom Along.”
• Junior individual documentary: second place, Rosemary O’Malley, CJHS, “Jim Crow Row: Growing Up African-American in a Free State.”
• Junior group documentary: first place, Zoey Hearn Feldman and Cypress Frankenfeld, Cordley School and CJHS, “Ruling the World: Maps and Charts: The Key to Conquest.” Second place, Tess Frydman and Regan Keller, Pinckney School and CJHS, “Peaceful Communications: The Key to Civil Rights.”
• Senior group documentary: first place, Brenna Daldorph and Lindsey Kennedy, LHS, “Gordon Parks: Communicating Injustice Through Art.” Second place, Mulligan Greenwell, Hannah Frydman and Maya Weil, CJHS and LHS, “We Who Are the Enemy.”
• Senior individual documentary: first place, Samuel Huneke, LHS, “The Nurnberg Rallies: Communications of a Nazi Order.” Second place, Thora Whitmore, LHS, “The Crime of the Century: A Melodrama in Five Acts.”
• Junior individual exhibit: first place, Erica Smith, West Junior High School, “Braille: The World Through the Fingertips.”
• Senior individual exhibit: second place, Anthony Frei, LHS, “Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto.”
• Senior group exhibit: first place, Madeline Fister and Audrey Seybert, LHS, “Entartete Kunst.” Second place, Rebecca Siahaan and Cassandra Brickell, LHS, “Cat and Mouse Act.”

Teachers who work with these students are Michael Ortmann, Paul Stuewe, Dari Hilbert and Joan Parr.