Gina Gubler who is a history teach at Huntington Elementary in Emery County was one of three Utah teachers have been selected to join a national program that studies World War I and will help the trio develop skills to use in their classrooms. Along with Gubler, Monica Howa-Johnson at St. Vincent de Paul Parish School in Holladay, and Azure Smith at St. John the Baptist Middle School in Draper. They will join 111 other teachers from around the country selected for a program titled Legacies of World War I, a partnership between the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and National History Day. The three Utahns will participate in webinars and discussions while learning about World War I with teachers from around the world. The selected teachers receive free tuition, graduate credits, and materials for the online program.

As part of the commemoration of the centennial of The Great War, National History Day is proud to partner with the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission to help teachers delve into the history of this global event, National History Day Executive Director Dr. Cathy Gorn said. These teachers will learn about specific aspects of the war they can take back to the classroom to ensure this piece of global history is not forgotten.

This program is part of an educational partnership with the WWI Commission, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, National History Day, and the National World War I Museum and Memorial. This new educational partnership will educate both teachers and school students about World War I through a series of more than 100 teaching events nationwide. More Information about the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission can be at ww1cc.org.

National History Day is a non-profit organization based in College Park that seeks to improve the teaching and learning of history. The National History Day Contest was established in 1974 and currently engages more than half a million students in conducting original research on historical topics of interest. Students present their research as a documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, or website. Projects compete first at the local and affiliate levels, where the top entries are invited to the National Contest at the University of Maryland at College Park. National History Day is sponsored in part by HISTORY, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Park Service, and Southwest Airlines. For more information, visit nhd.org.