Featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle School High School middle and High School Students completed videos answering the question what do they want the president ial candidates to address. In the midst of these challenging times, i have some exciting news. A team of talented High School Students from Long Beach Polytechnic High School are the first place winners in cspans National Documentary competition. Studentcam. Cspan partners every year with spectrum for this competition which has dunes create short documentaries about an issue of national importance. 5000 400 students from across the United States participated creating films that reflect their interests and passions. I was honored to be interviewed by the long beach High School Students for their winning film so it is and i am incredibly proud of their talent, hard work, and persistence. Congratulations to hamid, catherine, and pia. Our first prize High School West award goes to hamid torabzadeh,
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