The bus and C-Span staff are in Hutchinson from 9 to 11 a.m. on May 6, at Hutchinson High School to honor student broadcast journalists at the Hutchinson Career and Technical Education Academy.
During the stop, HHS students and staff will have a chance to tour the C-Span bus.
Juniors Brooks Armstrong and David Sotelo produced the video “Our Time is Now” on U.S. immigration policy for the C-Span StudentCam 2014 competition. The juniors placed third regionally and received a prize of $750 for their efforts. Overall, there were 2,355 videos from about 4,800 students submitted and only 150 received a prize. The students were from 46 states and the District of Columbia.
The video by Sotelo and Armstrong is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqKmOIkN6w.
The winners of the 2014 StudentCam competition were announced Wednesday, March 5, during C-SPAN’s morning call-in program, Washington Journal.
Since Armstrong and Sotelo won third prize, HCTEA will receive $125 to spend on digital equipment for the school. Leann Gleason teaches broadcast journalism at HCTEA.
The annual competition is sponsored by the C-SPAN Education Foundation. Videos were evaluated by a panel of educators and C-SPAN representatives based on the thoughtful examination of the competition’s theme, quality of expression, inclusion of varying sides of the documentary’s topic and effective incorporation of C-SPAN programming.