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So, what's this about?

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This is the EHDI website

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of the year award.

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And, here are past winners.

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As you can see, this started,

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back in 2011.

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So it's been 15 years

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and a lot of great websites

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and I think overall

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it will be very fair to say

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that websites

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have really increased

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in terms of the content and criteria

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which we'll do a judgment,

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which we'll talk about in just a moment.

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Here it is.

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Our last few

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of course last year was Michigan and Louisiana.

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It says legacy there.

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What does that mean?

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What that means is

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have kind of have a tournament

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of champions, past winners.

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We also

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as are continually improving as well.

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And so.

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There we go.

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see,

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I may be,

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website committee chairman,

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but that doesn't mean I can't be technology challenged.

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So this is why we’re here, 

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look at the 2026 winners

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of both our website of the year

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I will call it emergent, and our legacy champion.

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And just like Sherry did,

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There we go.

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It couldn't happen without these folks.

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And, you see, it's a huge team.

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I can't, I won't be able to like

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Sherry have the time

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to individually name.

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But I appreciate each

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and every one of you.

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This is,

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a large,

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large time and effort commitment.

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And thank you.

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And if you can stand up,

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I definitely want to give you a hand.

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It wouldn’t have been possible without these folks,

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and I am deeply, deeply grateful.

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All right.

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Here's our criterion.

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our criterion revolves around three things,

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which is content,

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design, layout and accessibility.

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If you are gonna wrap that up into a single

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phrase, it will be user friendly.

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And so there are some,

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some very specific things about that.

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Here's this checklist.

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You can find this

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actually on the website.

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And the first thing is content.

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And that's to make sure

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that the information

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there is actually useful.

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if you don't want a lot of information,

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you want it

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to be very focused and useful.

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And you can find the portion

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that you need,

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especially when it comes to parents

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or professionals.

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Second thing,

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the design and layout,

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user friendly in terms of navigation.

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And so you can get to it,

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you don't have to do a lot of searching.

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And then, of course, accessibility.

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And,

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like the verbiage, it hits your level.

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And so, professionalism or something

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that's obscure,

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it comes as crystal clear

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when you're trying to use it.

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And so that's important

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all about,

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communicating and being user friendly,

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resource for the people who are doing

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the Google searches.

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And here we are.

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So we have,

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a top three, which is Mississippi,

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North Dakota, Vermont, Alabama

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and North Carolina are past winners.

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Most current was Alabama,

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which is a few years ago

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in North Carolina if I remember correctly, I wanna say

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2014-15 ish.

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But they rose to the top

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in our selection.

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And, congratulations to all of them.

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This represents

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a significant achievement

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because this is over all of the,

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50 states and territories.

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Here's the top three,

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and the top two.

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And the winner is!

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Mississippi.

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Just like Sherry said.

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We'll be taking a picture

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over here at the side afterwards.

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If a representative wanna come up.

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And we moving on.

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Still come up.

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Get your picture,

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or have a, discussion among yourselves.

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or bring your whole team.

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Next winner is!

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North Carolina.

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As I mentioned, they had won

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I wanna say 2014-15

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and is continuous improvement.

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So congratulations to their team,

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for keeping at it

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and not just sitting under the laurels,

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so that concludes, this portion of it,

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I want to remind everybody,

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a lot of great,

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individual sessions, both

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this morning and in the afternoon.

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So, it’s going to be a  day of learning,

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go make it count.

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Thank you so much.

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And for our winners,

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come on up and get your picture taken.