C-SPANs StudentCam 2010

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Springville, New York 14141

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	C-SPANs StudentCam 2010

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 8 films in the competition.

Technology Integrator Benjamin Higgins coordinated the projects with Joseph Karb, eighth grade social studies teacher and Michael Rokitka, High School history teacher. Students used school 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 topics were "One of our Country's Greatest Strengths" and "A Challenge the Country is Facing." S-GI students chose topics from Funding for the Creative Arts to Capital Punishment: A Challenge Facing America. Teachers and community members were interviewed, and well chosen clips from various sources bolstered the facts in the issues.

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

Grade 8 Submissions

Funding for the Creative Arts