The Maryland Humanities Council sponsors Maryland History Day, an annual program that encourages Maryland students to research, analyze, and develop their own year-long projects based on historic events and people. The competition, which begins at a school level and builds to county, state, and national contests, had over 16,000 Maryland participants. I was fortunate to have the experience of participating as a judge at the state contest on April 25 at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. That was an enriching experience since I got to see some of the fine work of a cluster of scholars in the web site cohort, as well as having the opportunity to work in the run-off contests for displays. This is a valuable project for young scholars and I was pleased to be able to see some of the outside work of these young people.