One of the third prize-winning videos for the high school section, Speaking Truth to Power, was produced by Melissa Mergner, a 10th grade student at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. The video is about the rights of farm workers.

C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam video documentary contest was a national competition in which middle and high school students produced a documentary exploring a current political topic using some C-SPAN footage and covering multiple viewpoints. The local cable company was Comcast.