Evan Patterson, of Blairsburg, portrays Michael Jordan.

Jax Olson, of Blairsburg, is Freddie Mercury.

Emma Thompson, of Williams, is Malala Yousafzai.

Addison Sexe, of Williams and Webster City, is Kobe Bryant.

Evan Patterson, of Blairsburg, portrays Michael Jordan.

Aria Wagner, of Williams and Webster City, is Caitlin Clark.

Zane Schossow, of Webster City, is Theodore Roosevelt.

Elsie Pruismann, of Blairsburg, portrayed Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Yuridia Tejeda, of Dumont, portrayed Harriet Tubman.

Hennry Seiser, of Blairsburg, is Babe Ruth.

Nevaeh Nelson Martin, of Webster City, is Sacagawea.

Maci Wynkoop, of Webster City, portrays former President Barack Obama.

Lucas Taylor-Watson, of Blairsburg, is Josef Martinez.

Axton Yeager, of Blairsburg, portrays Richard Petty.

Tariq Burton, of Williams, portrays Dr. Tom Little. Tariq Burton is previously from Afganistan. Dr. Tom Little lived and worked amongst the people of Afganistan for 30 years, providing eye care services as an optometrist. He worked there until he was murdered by the Taliban, along with nine others, in August 2010.

Evan Patterson, of Blairsburg, was Michael Jordan.

And Vincent Bittner, of Webster City, was Stephen Hawking.

At Northeast Hamilton, on Thursday night, the night she likes to call “Mrs. Seiser’s Night of the Living Wax Museum,” Laura Seiser’s fifth- and sixth-grade students broke all boundaries to be the person they most admire.

The results were stunning.

“Every year, months before we begin this enormous project, I ask the kids to start thinking about who they would like to portray based on their interests and who has made a positive impact in their lives and in the world,” said Seiser.

“I really like this to be a passion project — choose someone they admire and want everyone else to know about. Once they decide on a famous person, the REAL work begins. This project hits so many important literacy standards — from researching, to writing informational papers (biography), and preparing and delivering a presentation.”

Seiser calls it “the most difficult project of the year.”

They first “have the huge task of first researching who they’ve chosen and organizing their information on their trifolds,” she said. “As they create their trifolds, they must write a biography in their own words, draw a portrait, fill out an information sheet, build a timeline, compare and contrast their person’s personality traits/similarities/differences to themselves. Then they prepare and deliver their speeches. It is an enormous undertaking that hits many literacy standards as well as social studies.”

“Through their hard work and commitment, (they) turned it into the most awe-inspiring, magical night of the school year,” she said.