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A group of German and American high school students, sponsored by the National History Day program and the Körber Foundation, are learning about immigration history in the United States in a week-long “Summer Academy”. The Summer Academy, “Everyday Life of Immigrants Before and After 9/11,” will offer visits to museums, historic sites, archives as well as discussions with experts and immigrants in the Washington area. On Wednesday, June 16, the students – ten from each side of the Atlantic – and representatives of Körber Foundation and National History Day were received in the German Embassy by Deputy Chief of Mission Peter Gottwald. Gottwald praised the work of the Körber Foundation and National History Day. He stressed that the knowledge of history will allow the students to enhance their understanding of current affairs in the relationship between the United States and Germany and will stimulate their cross-cultural awareness. National History Day and the Körber Foundation’s “Geschichtswettbewerb des Bundespräsidenten” (Federal President’s History Contest) are the leading history education programs for students in the United States and Germany. Both programs offer 30 years of leadership in history contests. Throughout these years the contests encouraged hundreds of thousands of students to improve not only their skills in the realm of historic research, but also their critical thinking and analytical skills by investigating historical topics of interest to them. For the first time this year’s Summer Academy is bringing together some of the most successful participants of the German and American competitions. Through the summer academy program, they are building on knowledge gained by participating in the national contests, which both focused on the aspect of migration and exchange in history. June 18, 2004 Links
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