kathy goren who is extraordinary leader of national history day. she's been on our board for many, many years. please join me in welcoming our first panel of the 2022 presidential site summit. >> good morning. it's a privilege to be the moderator of this panel, this session this morning as stewart noted, education is critical. given the times we're living in, history education is especially important. for those of you not familiar with national history day, here is a quick nutshell version of it. we sponsor a program for 6th through 12th graders. we ask them to choose a topic. i know that many of you have been contacted by our students year after year looking for primary resources to go along with their study offense the secondary material. it's a real rigorous and active study of the past. the students have they have done their research, they then present their findings in creative formats. they also have to relate their topic to an annual theme. i think we were clairvoyant when we set our themes up. we set them years in advance. first year of the

i'm kathy goren executive director of national history day. and it's a privilege to to be the moderator of this this panel the session this morning is stuart noted education is absolutely critical and given the times that we're living in history education is especially important for those of you who are not familiar with national history day here. is it quick nutshell version of it. we sponsor a student program for six through 12th graders all across this country and also internationally in fact in which we ask kids to choose topics in history any topic they like and then go out and conduct extensive research into archives and libraries and museums, and i know that many of you have been contacted by our students year after year looking for primary resources to go along with their studies of the secondary material and so it's a real rigorous. very active study of the past. it's not your memorized names and dates kind of program the students after they've done their research. they then present their findings in creative formats they also have to