Mary Grace Pellegrini talked about one of the high school section third prize-winning videos, Coal: Kentucky’s Quagmire, that she produced with Meaghan Reed and Anna Foshee, fellow 12th-grade students at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. She was interviewed by telephone from the C-SPAN newsroom by Erin Patton.

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 Insight Communications.

A video clip was shown. To view students' complete videos, go to www.studentcam.org/Winners08.htm.