Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Sacrifice for Freedom®: World War II in the Pacific Student & Teacher Institute. Program and travel fees (including flights, hotels, meals, and admission) are paid by the Pearl Harbor Historic Site partners.
A team consists of one student and one teacher. A prospective team submits a joint application. Teams must meet these requirements:
•Student applicants must be enrolled in tenth or eleventh grade in the 2022-2023 academic year.
•Teacher applicants of any subject from grades 6-12 may apply. School librarians are eligible for this program.
•Teacher applicants must be employed or serving as public, private, parochial, charter, independent, or home school educators.
•All accepted participants will be required to submit full proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Teams selected will work over the course of six months to research the context of World War II in the Pacific and specifically, the life of a Silent Hero® who died in World War II and is buried in or memorialized at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.
Teams need to be available for travel from June 20 to 26, 2023. The program will begin in January 2023 with required online course work and continue after summer travel with the completion of the Silent Hero profile for NHDSilentHeroes.org.
The deadline to apply is Monday, November 28, 2023 at midnight HT. Teachers may submit one application. If a teacher wants to consider multiple students, the choice of student applicant must be made at the school level.
For more information and application form go to https://www.nhd.org/SFF2023.
