C-SPANs StudentCam 2009

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	C-SPANs StudentCam 2009

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PRESS RELEASE: Written By: Linda Danahy, School Publicist

January 30, 2009

S-GI Students Enter C-Span

StudentCam Contest

Each year, C-Span challenges middle and high school students to film documentaries exploring a topic of national interest. This year, Springville-Griffith Institute CSD students entered 14 films in the competition.

Technology Integrator Benjamin Higgins coordinated the projects with Joseph Karb, eighth grade social studies teacher and Michael Rokitka, Advanced Placement history teacher. Students used Macintosh computer equipment to make their documentaries that had to include an analysis of their chosen issue, C-Span programming, more than one point of view, credits for images used and people interviewed, and had to be from five to eight minutes in length.

This year’s topic was a message to the new president, with students choosing what they believe is the most urgent issue to be addressed. S-GI students chose topics from global warming to the economy to Puerto Rican statehood. Teachers and community members were interviewed, and well chosen clips from various sources bolstered the facts in the issues.

Winners will be announced by C-Span on March 10 and $50,000 in cash prizes will be awarded along with an interview on C-Span.

Grade 8 Submissions

Economic Crisis: Trouble in America