One of the third prize-winning videos for the middle school section, The Iraq Conflict: Sunnis, Shiites & Kurds, was produced by Nicholas Sexton, Sybil Lynch, and Shanice Brentano, 8th-grade students at Elysian Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey.


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 Cablevision.

Video airs Wednesday, April 2.