National History Day is a memorable opportunity for students and teachers alike. NHD is an integrated, project-based, historical research contest with Regional, State, and National levels for which students research a topic of their choice within a given theme. The theme in 2020 is "Breaking Barriers in History". Students prepare historical research products within categories such as paper, performance, website, documentary, and exhibit. All of those (except the paper, of course) provide an option for students to work either as an individual or within a group! NHD allows students the unique opportunity to defend their research to and receive feedback from encouraging judges who are experts in history, archiving, teaching, researching, and other related professions. These are skills that will prepare them for scholarship and college application as well as for the real world.This workshop will explain what NHD is, how it helps teachers meet standards, and how to develop an NHD unit. Kimberly Brownlee has been involved with student NHD projects and in judging the contest for 11 years and has multiple years' experience at the regional, state, and national competition levels.