The 2019 Student Documentary Competition, C-Span’s StudentCam winners have been announced!
Poly had four winning teams this year for the cable news channel’s StudentCam Competition.
One out of the four teams earned the 2nd Prize, which is highest award Poly’s ever received compared to previous years.
What exactly StudentCam is? C-SPAN’s “annual national video documentary competition”, according to their website, which requires students to think more in depth about issues affecting our communities and our nation.
Students are given the platform in order to express their views on whatever topic is given for the yearly competition.
The topic for this year was “What Does It Mean To Be American?”
One of the requirements was to choose between a constitutional right, national characteristic, or historic event and explain how it defines the American experience.
Competition was open to students from grade levels 6-12.
There were middle and high school categories.
Students could have chosen to compete individually, or in teams of either 2 or 3 members. Including clips either supporting or opposing C-SPAN video, relating with the topic.
The length of the documentaries ranges from 5-6 minutes.
There were about 150 winning entries announced on Wednesday March 13, according to their website calculating their votes.
Students were asked to pick their favorite documentary out of the entries, submitted by January 20. Voting was open from Monday February 25 to midnight Sunday March 3.
C-SPAN plans to attend Poly on April 18 to congratulate the students who earned awards. The ceremony will be held possibly in room 310 or the library, it’s still in the works.
They as well travel with a gigantic bus across the country, where they showcase the winning entries.
To give an idea of just how gigantic this bus is, Jeff Montooth has stated their has been “trouble fitting it anywhere at Poly”.
The 2nd place team from Poly, awarded $1,500m was Hamid Torabzadeh, Katherine Padilla & Pia Hao, with their video titled “Retained by the People- The Promise of America”.
There was quite a few, honorable mention winners, awarded with $250.
The honorable mention winners consisted of students Grant Atwood, Justin Rosu and Jacob Jacoub in their video “We Didn’t All Come on the Mayflower”; Samantha Williams and Inanna Khansa, with their video “The Press and the People”; And lastly, Audrey Song with “One Person, One Vote”.
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