Summer Awad talked about one of the middle school section second prize-winning videos, Too Poor to Get Sick, that she produced with Courtney Such, a fellow 8th-grade student at Farragut Middle School in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was interviewed by telephone from the C-SPAN newsroom by Sarah Howard.

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 Charter Communications.

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