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New Orleans Area Students covered Grand Opening Celebrations

Twenty New Orleans and Mississippi middle and high school students donned fedoras November 6 and 7 (Friday-Saturday) as they became iReporters, covering the myriad events celebrating the opening of the National WWII Museum’s Solomon Victory Theater, Stage Door Canteen, and American Sector, a John Besh restaurant. Watch on-the-spot interviews and reports and view student-produced photography. In this technology-driven, student-focused project, the Museum partnered with five area schools to produce news by the students and for the students.

Why not check out their stories, pictures, and reports with your entire class, at their blog, http://ww2ireporters.tumblr.com/? Content is continuing to be added. Among their assignments, students attended a press conference held by Tom Hanks, interviewed WWII veterans (including Tuskegee Airmen) and Home Front workers, and reported on the historic activities being held at the Museum.

The National World War II Museum is a dynamic educational resource serving the needs of teachers and students from grade school through the post-graduate level. USA Today gave the Museum its top rank as the “Best Places to Learn U.S. Military History."  Exhibitions and programs allow students from all backgrounds to explore the values and beliefs—the universal concepts—that Americans and their Allies embraced during World War II.

Through Museum tours, workshops, special on-site and outreach programming, film and lecture series, and our new distance learning initiative, young visitors experience the lessons of teamwork, optimism, courage, and sacrifice that led to the Allied victory.

Utilizing an object-based learning experience, educational technology, and its world-class exhibits, the Museum uses its rich collection of artifacts, archives, and oral histories to take history beyond the pages of textbooks and into the hands of curious students.

The National World War II Museum is a living museum. It honors the generation that won the war by enlightening today's generation about its own potential. The Museum is dedicated to the premise that these lessons are just as valuable today as they were over sixty-five years ago.

Yours Sincerely,

Kenneth Hoffman
Director of Education

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