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Hammond High Students Highlighted for Video Documentaries

Four students won $250 and honorable mentions for their submissions to C-SPAN's video documentary competition.

 

Four Hammond High School students won honorable mentions and $250 for their short documentaries submitted as part of CSPAN's 2013 student video documentary competition.

Eric Smith, Tim Baker and Bryce Rosenberg, 10th graders at Hammond, received an honorable mention for the documentary "Set the Standard for Safe Fracking" about hydraulic fracking.

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The students stood in front of Lake Elkhorn, while detailing the dangers of hydraulic fracking. Their video included clips from the well-known fracking documentary "Gasland" and statements from politicians.

Monyi Lwin, also a 10th grader at Hammond, received an honorable mention for her documentary "It's Time" about reducing reliance on foreign oil.

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Lwin's video features animation, news clips, graphics and her own narration.

C-SPAN provided the following information about the competition:

The national competition, now in its ninth year, invites middle school (grades 6-8) and high school students (grades 9-12) to produce a five- to- eight minute documentary on a national policy issue. This year, students were asked to answer the question, “What’s the most important issue the president should consider in 2013?” In response, C-SPAN received 1,893 video submissions from more than 3,500 students in 44 states and Washington, DC.

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