Royal Oak High Student Honored By C-SPAN For Documentary

ROYAL OAK, MI — C-SPAN’s newly revamped, 45-foot customized Bus will visit Royal Oak High School on Tuesday to honor local winner Zoe Kernohan for her winning entry in C-SPAN’s annual student video documentary competition, StudentCam. During the visit, C-SPAN will present a StudentCam certificate of merit to the student during a ceremony of classmates, teachers, family members and elected officials. The winning video will also be viewed during the congratulatory event, too.

Each year since 2006, C-SPAN partners with local cable providers in communities nationwide to invite middle school students and high school students to produce short documentaries on a subject of national importance. This year, students addressed the theme, “The Constitution & You: Choose a provision of the U.S. Constitution and create a video illustrating why it's important to you."

In response, C-SPAN received a record of 2,985 video submissions from over 5,700 students in 46 states and Washington, D.C. One hundred fifty students and 53 teacher prizes were awarded, totaling $100,000 in prize money.

In addition to visiting StudentCam winners, the C-SPAN Bus is currently on a "50 Capitals Tour" that began in September 2017. The Bus is traveling to every U.S. state capital, culminating in November 2018 for the 25th anniversary of the Bus program. Throughout this 14-month tour, the C-SPAN Bus will open its doors at each state capitol to welcome visitors and interview elected officials during C-SPAN's signature morning call-in program, Washington Journal. C-SPAN Representatives will also gather video responses from visitors as part of its "Voices from the States" – an opportunity for visitors to share viewpoints on state issues and what they think Washington leaders should do to address local concerns. C-SPAN will visit Lansing on June 7th.

Since 1993, a C-SPAN Bus has traveled across the nation in partnership with C-SPAN's cable and satellite providers for local interactions through visits to schools and community events. Visitors to the Bus will engage with the C-SPAN Bus crew and the onboard interactive tools to learn about the unique public service television network, C-SPAN's online presence and C-SPAN Classroom's comprehensive educational resources. Bus visitors will learn about C-SPAN's unique non-commercial, editorially-balanced, non-biased coverage of public affairs and political events and the cable industry's commitment to funding its operations.

In Royal Oak, C-SPAN programming is provided by Comcast as a commercial-free public service and can be seen on channel 96; C-SPAN2 on channel 104; and C-SPAN3 on channel 105 and on the web at C-SPAN.org. Funding for C-SPAN operations, including Bus visits, is provided by cable and satellite TV providers.

Visit www.studentcam.org to watch all the winning videos for 2018.

Image via C-SPAN

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