StudentCam Contest Winner Interview

Alexa Cusick talked about one of the middle school section second prize-winning videos, Aid for Africa: America’s First Priority, that she produced with Douglas Rogerson and Jordan Newby, fellow 8th-grade students at Farragut Middle School in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was interviewed by telephone from the C-SPAN newsroom by Jonelle Henry.

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 Advanced Charter Communications.

A video clip was shown. To view student’s complete videos, go to www.studentcam.org/Winners08.htm. close