- PRESS RELEASE:
C-SPAN Announces Winners of 2018 StudentCam Documentary Competition (PDF)
- VIDEO:
Televised Announcement of the C-SPAN StudentCam 2018 Winners (2:59)
- Ella Grace Rodriguez (Winter Park, FL)
- Grace Wu (Betheseda, MD)
- Sarah Nash (Kirkwood, MO)
- Sebastien Kraft (Silver Spring, MD)
- Laila Dancy, Shreya Gundam & Sierra Clark (Raleigh, NC)
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Adam Koch and Tyler Cooney |
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HIGH SCHOOL - EAST DIVISION  Hemakshi Gordy & Jansikwe Medina-Tayac During a week long period of public voting where almost 16,000 votes were cast, Hemi and Jansi's documentary received 3,157 of those votes. They will receive an additional $500 cash prize as this year's "Fan Favorite" documentary. |
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HIGH SCHOOL - CENTRAL DIVISION Will Foote & James Dyer |
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HIGH SCHOOL - WEST DIVISION May Zhen & Payton Liquin |
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MIDDLE SCHOOL Kiera Lamb, Uma Fox & Kiah Beachler |
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Raheem Baker, William Mcknight, and Zane'ah Moultrie |
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Ella Grace Rodriguez 10th Grade "A Precarious Balance: Religion in the Public Education System" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum Air Date: Monday, April 16 |
Mia Lazar & Ava Lazar 10th & 8th Grade "The Equal Protection Clause: Creating a More Perfect Union" Blacksburg High School Blacksburg, VA Comcast Air Date: Thursday, April 12 |
Andres Leon & Claire Prudhomme 11th Grade "PRESSure: The Pressure for Freedom of The Press" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum Air Date: Sunday, April 8 |
Christina Spain & Chelsea Wilck 12th Grade "Gun Control: America Under Fire" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum Air Date: Wednesday, April 04 |
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Jonathan Godfrey and Jackson Cropper
11th Grade "Pressed" Jenks High School Jenks, OK Cox Communications Air Date: Sunday, April 15 |
Ashleigh Richardson & Ta'Kaiya Cooper 12th Grade "You Matter" Ramsay High School Birmingham, AL Spectrum Air Date: Wednesday, April 11 |
Matthew Murrie 11th Grade "Refugee of Spirit" Jenks High School Jenks, OK Cox Communications Air Date: Saturday, April 7 |
Joshua Romer 12th Grade "First for a Reason" Jenks High School Jenks, OK Cox Communications Air Date: Tuesday, April 3 |
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Payam Abedi & Kyle Dees 12th Grade "Fading Liberty" Scripps Ranch High School San Diego, CA Spectrum Air Date: Saturday, April 14 |
Jayson Ventura, Elyza de Lara & Marob Wiseman 12th & 10th Grade "Copy Rights" Franklin High School Elk Grove, CA Comcast Air Date: Tuesday, April 10 |
Arundathi Nair 10th Grade "Freedom of Expression is a Human Right, Censorship a Human Wrong" Laramie High School Laramie, WY Spectrum Air Date: Friday, April 6 |
Petie Schill & Grace McGrorty 12th Grade "We Are All Human Beings" Capital High School Boise, ID Cable ONE Air Date: Monday, April 2 |
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Julianne Garnett, Marijke Friedman & Kinsey Lee 8th Grade "The Constitutional Controversy Over D.C. Statehood" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast Air Date: Friday, April 13 |
Caleb Miller 8th Grade "The Headline Debate" Patrick Henry Middle School Sioux Falls, SD Midco Air Date: Monday, April 9 |
Dhruv Pai & Carina Guo 8th Grade "First Amendment and Social Media Regulation" Takoma Park Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast Air Date: Thursday, April 5 |
Julia Angel, Maria Bond-Lamberty & Olivia Schulz 8th Grade "Undefended- Gideon v. Wainwright and the Fight for the Right to Counsel" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast Air Date: Sunday, April 1 |
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Walker Simasek, Mark Whittingham & Clay DeHart
12th Grade "The 13th Amendment - Did it really abolish slavery?" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum |
Charlie Nichols 10th Grade "Donald Trump vs Freedom of the Press" Woodrow Wilson Senior High School Washington, DC Comcast |
Chloe Janes, Bryan Zhu & Romy Meehan
12th Grade "Under Siege" Brookline High School Brookline, MA Comcast |
Victor Ginsburg
12th Grade "Useful Arts: America’s Science Problem" The Workshop School Philadelphia, PA Comcast |
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Uma Gupta, Mariko Yatsuhashi & Karis Danner-McDonald 10th Grade "ALEC: The Key to Backroom Politics" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring Comcast |
Anne Hicks, Cecelia Dworak & Sam Kulp
10th Grade "Fifty One" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring Comcast |
Isabella Hunt & Caroline Lanford 11th Grade "43920" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring Comcast |
Yogi Strachan
12th Grade "The Electoral College" Clearview Regional High School Mullica Hill, NJ Comcast |
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Sarah Tuttle, Amelia Bond & Taylor Berkheimer
12th Grade "Fake News and Freedom of the Press" Edmond Memorial High School Edmond, OK Cox Communications |
Jack Rintoul
11th Grade "Curing Hazelwood" Kirkwood High School Kirkwood, MO Spectrum |
Josie O'Meara & Rose Kinyon 12th Grade "Cannabis Culture and the Constitution" St. Thomas More High School Rapid City, SD Midco |
Ashton Holland
12th Grade "Patenting The Human Genome" Jenks High School Jenks, OK Cox Communications |
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Madeleine Dorst
12th Grade "Church Perks: A Taxing Issue" Jenks High School Jenks, OK Cox Communications |
Gabrielle LaFuente, Holly Rossetto & Amanda Buie
12th Grade "A Threat to the Internet" Milan High School Milan, MI Comcast |
Skyler Miller 11th Grade "1st Amendment" Lakeland Union High School Minocqua, WI Spectrum |
Patricia Mathu, Emma Mitchell & Jong Jung 12th Grade "Neither Snow Nor Rain" Whitefish Bay High School Whitefish Bay, WI Spectrum |
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Queenie Lam, Moajarra Mosissa & Ronald Tu 12th Grade "The Backbone of Our Justice System" Alhambra High School Alhambra, CA Spectrum |
Lauren Kastanis, Noah Willis & Elizabeth Duncan 12th Grade "Guns and Gridlock" Woodside Priory School Portola Valley, CA Comcast |
Afreen Rajani, Sara Shalwani & Abby Ligons
11th Grade "The Constitutionality of the Death Penalty" Imagine International Academy of North Texas McKinney, TX Spectrum |
Anish Siddabhattuni, Arjun Dodanari & Alvi Rahman 11th Grade "The Minimum Wage" Imagine International Academy of North Texas McKinney, TX Spectrum |
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Arman Razaali, Aahan Kerawala & Hasan Iqbal 11th Grade "Constitutional Implications on Disaster Relief" Imagine International Academy of North Texas McKinney, TX Spectrum |
Megan Rice & Casey Pfost 12th Grade "Preserving the Creative World" Mountain View High School Meridian, ID Cable ONE |
Connor Shangle, Kaitlyn Stout & Samantha Lepori 12th Grade "Homeless Does Not Mean Hopeless" Spanish Springs High School Sparks, NV Spectrum |
Jillian Holland Browne 12th Grade "The Constitution & You: Federalism" Spanish Springs High School Sparks, NV Spectrum |
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Caroline Chen, Calvin Hinkle & Olivia Xiao 8th Grade "Protection For All: The 14th Amendment" Smith Middle School Chapel Hill, NC Spectrum |
Thomas McKenna 8th Grade "Equality to Govern" Homeschool Lovettsville, VA Comcast |
Annie Goldman, Myles Feingold-Black & Noah Protas 8th Grade "Free Speech: The Ever Evolving Debate" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Jessa Nather, Amelie Scalera & Maya Flaherty 8th Grade "The Electoral College: A Flawed System" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
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Kevin Gehl & Abel Seifeselassie 8th Grade "The American Flag: Respect and Protests" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Gus Carvell & Lilith Eagle 8th Grade "We Want You" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Rachel Williams, Sofia Flores & Connor Gould 8th Grade "Sex Trafficking" Natomas Charter School Sacramento, CA Comcast |
Lilly Brock, Laura Sackett & Ruby Massengale
8th Grade "The 1st Amendment, Protest + US" Nashoba Brooks School Concord, MA Comcast |
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Architesh Prasad & Kabir Gupta 7th & 6th Grade "An American Right Not Used Enough" Tupelo Middle School Tupelo, MS Comcast |
Sarah Lemos, Valeria Bula & Dru Barcelo 11th Grade "The First Amendment: The Cornerstone Of Democracy" Miami Lakes Educational Center Miami Lakes, FL Comcast |
Charlotte Despard & Angelina Aubrey Hunt 10th Grade "Executive Power: Constitution or Corruption" TC Williams High School Alexandria, VA Comcast |
Henry Horlbeck & Alex Wages 12th "Content Unavailable" Richland Northeast High School Columbia, SC Spectrum |
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Hailey Mitchell, Joe Byler & Alex Stoyanov-Roberts
11th Grade "Gunning for Solutions- The Fight for Universal Background Checks" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Charlotte Suttee 11th Grade "All is Fair in Love and Hate" Jenks High School Jenks, OK Cox Communications |
Daniel Sotelo-Reiner, Annie Chu & Joshua Viorge 12th Grade "im·mi·gra·tion" Townsend Harris High School Flushing, NY Spectrum |
Isaac Jantzen 11th Grade "Freedom of the Press" Woodrow Wilson High School Washington, DC Comcast |
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Joe Couri, Teresa Jansen & Sean Wool
9th, 10th, and 11th Grade "I Voted Today" Homeschool Trinity Elmhurst, IL Comcast |
Arden Wallman & Ellie Schuchart
10th Grade "Unrepresented" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum |
Aidan Fogarty 12th Grade "Fake News" Woodrow Wilson Senior High School Washington, DC Comcast |
Collin Dierssen, Zachary Kraemer & Giovanni Laramier
10th Grade "It's Not the Guns, It's the People" Franklin High School Elk Grove, CA Comcast |
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Jamie Sobalvarro, Zoe Marie Fernandez & Isaac Andrade
11th Grade "The Forgotten Amendment" Coral Reef Senior High School Miami, FL Comcast |
Marisa Luft, Kamilla Delaney & Arman Celebi 9th Grade "Special Education and the 14th Amendment" NYC iSchool New York, NY Spectrum |
Lexie Regan, Morgan D'Ambra & Anna Lubic 10th Grade "Hooked" Narragansett High School Narragansett, RI Cox Communications |
Alli Cain, Jane Acuff & Monica Grubbs 9th Grade "Power to Protect" Long Beach Polytechnic High School Long Beach, CA Spectrum |
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Elena Frogameni & Jarrett Smith
12th and 11th Grade "The First Amendment and Internet Regulation" Northampton High School Northampton, MA Comcast |
Isabella Thalheimer & Sam Lee
10th Grade "I Plead." Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum |
Francesca Dyke & Emma Kellar 12th Grade "The Electoral College System" St. Thomas More High School Rapid City, SD Midco |
Simran Ohri, Celeste Basken & Alice O'Neal-Freeman
8th Grade "The Lost Voices" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
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Emily Tieu 10th Grade "The Fourteenth and Me" Abraham Lincoln High School Los Angeles, CA Spectrum |
Britt Masback 10th Grade "Fake News and the Threat to the First Amendment" Catlin Gabel School Portland, OR Comcast |
Bianca de Quesada 8th Grade "Does My Vote Count?" Corbett Preparatory School of IDS Tampa, FL Spectrum |
Olivia Hardwick, Amelia Frey & Alexandra Marney-Bell 10th Grade "Student Rights are Human Rights" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
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Lizzie Stobbe 11th Grade "America's Prisons: A Hidden Crisis" Kirkwood High School Kirkwood, MO Spectrum |
Alexandra Reboredo, Daylin Delgado & Diana Rodriguez 12th Grade "The First Amendment: Know Your Rights" Miami Lakes Educational Center Miami Lakes, FL Comcast |
Young-Bin Lee, Jason Kaplan & George Ashford
10th Grade "The Price of Free Speech" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Isabella Smith 9th Grade "Whose Beliefs Will Be On The Chopping Block?" Sam Houston High School Lake Charles, LA Altice USA |
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Harold Nunlee, Christian Diaz & Joel Hill
12th Grade "Unlocked and Loaded" Milan High School Milan, MI Comcast |
Helena Merker & Phoebe Om
10th Grade "Free Press, Free People" Bergen County Academies Hackensack, NJ Altice USA |
Grace Morris 12th Grade "Sold" Clayton High School Clayton, MO Spectrum |
Shreya Jangada
7th Grade "Their Voices" John Adams Middle School Edison, NJ Altice USA |
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Simone Rosa & Jakob Olsen 12th & 10th Grade "Worth the Challenge" Jenks High School Jenks, OK Cox Communications |
Zoe Heafner, Abigail Marcil & Amanda Belawski 12th Grade "#MeToo" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum |
Hao Li, Amanda Yuan & Jesse Rosales
12th Grade "Hacked America: The 4th Amendment Under Attack" Alhambra High School Alhambra, CA Spectrum |
Kevin Hricko, Maddie Foerster & Nick Tricarico
12th Grade "Promoting the General Welfare" East Lyme High School East Lyme, CT Atlantic Broadband |
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Layan Haidous, Deena Beydoun & Tanya Hammoud
11th Grade "The Women of Today" Dearborn High School Dearborn, MI Comcast |
Meaghan Sheehan, Julia Zipoli & Maeve Kennedy
8th Grade "Incarceration Injustice" Nashoba Brooks School Concord, MA Comcast |
Sophie Freid & Sydney Plastow 12th Grade "Time's Up" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum |
Angelica Gonzalez & Karen Ferrer 9th Grade "Online Paradox" Long Beach Polytechnic High School Long Beach, CA Spectrum |
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Clarissa Xia & Sydney Sun 11th Grade "'Press'ident" Richard Montgomery High School Rockville, MD Comcast |
Jessica Theis & Melanie Roberts 9th & 10th Grade "The 19th Amendment: Suffrage is Proclaimed" Montgomery Community Media Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Matthew Johnson
11th Grade "Your Cell Phone: Will the Vault be Opened?n" Kirkwood High School Kirkwood, MO Spectrum |
Emily McNair, Grace Kindt & Jade Lawson 12th Grade "26: The Power We Hold" Nazareth Area High School Nazareth, PA Service Electric |
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Matthew Weinsheimer, Elias Chen & Max Casey-Bolanos
10th Grade "Not So Free Speech The Dangerous Oppression of Free Expression" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Frances O'Connor, Fran Riley & Louis Rosenberg 10th Grade "Dividing Maryland" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Ethan Park, Preston Beatty & Lucas Nieman
10th Grade "Bump Stocks: Compromise and Failure" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Julian Hrbek, David Aminpur & Noah Ernst 8th Grade "The Lines that Shape America" Maple Avenue Middle School Saratoga Springs, NY Spectrum |
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Jacob Stremming & Addie Hammond 8th Grade "The Second Amendment: Freedom But At What Cost?" Lora Batchelor Middle School Bloomington, IN Comcast |
Audrey Moor
9th Grade "A Forgotten Amendment" Long Beach Polytechnic High School Long Beach, CA Spectrum |
Dominic Reyes, Andrew Chastain & Zainub Ahmed 11th Grade "Gun Violence the Second Amendment" Liberty High School Lake Saint Louis, MO Spectrum |
Sharon Lin, Nidhi Shah & Miku Nawocki 11th Grade "The Lifeblood of American Freedom" Imagine International Academy of North Texas McKinney, TX Spectrum |
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Anh-Thai Le
8th Grade "The Transparency in Privacy" Orchard Hills School Irvine, CA Cox Communications |
Zoe Kernohan 12th Grade "Keep It Separate" Royal Oak High School Royal Oak, MI Comcast |
Peter Qi & Saad Afzal 12th Grade "Our Silent Rights" Nazareth Area High School Nazareth, PA Service Electric |
Shayantan Chowdhury 11th Grade "Child Marriage in The United States" Imagine International Academy of North Texas McKinney, TX Spectrum |
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Eliza Morton & Anne Averill 8th Grade "Breaking the Border: The Complexities of Citizenship" Nashoba Brooks School Concord, MA Comcast |
Alexis Eckhart, Mena Sawyer & Mathew Lazzarini 11th and 12th Grade "First and Forever: Our Freedom of Speech" Nazareth Area High School Nazareth, PA Service Electric |
Claire Swadling 8th Grade "The Electoral College: A Debatable Topic" East Middle School Plymouth, MI Comcast |
Diana Zhu, Aarthi Vijayakumar & Michelle Sung 11th Grade "America's Epidemic" Mounds View High School Arden Hills, MN Comcast |
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Ari Gibson 9th Grade "Let's Stop Traffik- Human Trafficking Documentary" Providence Day School Charlotte, NC Spectrum |
Chris Poulson, Peter Zelinsky & Olga Panagopoulos 8th Grade "Guns vs. The Constitution" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Megan Nichols, Sally Kaye & Zahra Miles 8th Grade "Women In Politcs" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Audrey Dathe, Zoey Stasik & Sophia Leonard 8th Grade "Women's Futures are Bright with the 19th Amendment" Correia Middle School San Diego, CA Cox Communications |
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Abby Pender, Alisha Kamath & Ria Verma 9th Grade "Due Process: The Search for Equality" Enloe Magnet High School Raleigh, NC Spectrum |
Rebecca Craig
12th Grade "The 8th Amendment: The Evolving Role of Risk Assessments" Issaquah High School Issaquah, WA Comcast |
Eli Kuperman 10th Grade "Remember Your Rights" Long Reach High School Columbia, MD Comcast |
Sachi Vora 8th Grade "Passing the Torch" East Lyme Middle School Niantic, CT Atlantic Broadband |
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Shifra Dayak, Mira Diamond-Berman & Zoe Nix 10th Grade "Rising Waters, Rising States" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Aidan Graf, Anthony Holmes & Zachary Kane 11th Grade "Alcohol: A Historic Economy" Lakeland Union High School Minocqua, WI Spectrum |
Isabella Levine 11th Grade "In My Own Words" Richard Montgomery High School Rockville, MD Comcast |
Julia Izak, Rachel Gaugler & Aleksandra Hubczak 12th Grade "Triggered." Townsend Harris High School Flushing, NY Spectrum |
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Sarah Ravellette & Rowan Byrne 8th Grade "Can justice equal self incrimination?" Correia Middle School San Diego, CA Cox Communications |
Fraye Beyene 11th Grade "Rigged" Kirkwood High School Kirkwood, MO Spectrum |
Bradley Fellstrom, Matthew Tignor & Thomas Olivero 12th Grade "Elastic Efficacy" Midlothian High School Midlothian, VA Comcast |
Fairoz Walizada, Omar Benitez & Edin Zahic
12th Grade "Intrepid 'We the People'" Mountain View High School Meridian, ID Cable ONE |
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Wade Fletcher, Brandon Pendergrass & William Davidson
11th Grade "Faux Paws" Richland Northeast High School Columbia, SC Spectrum |
Jessie Schulhof & Ava Stark 8th Grade "Speaking Up To The Limits" The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy Atlanta, GA Comcast |
Micah Hauger
12th Grade "In A Blink Of An Eye" The Workshop School Philadelphia, PA Comcast |
Sung Jun Noh & Zachary Bressler 8th Grade "Our Student's Free Speech Rights" Eastern Middle School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
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Grace Wu 11th Grade "Think of the Children" Holton-Arms School Bethesda, MD Comcast |
Jowi Cordray
11th Grade "The Importance of Net Neutrality & The First Amendment" Lake Travis High School Austin, TX Spectrum |
Marisa Williams, Alysse Swann & Vincent Baker 10th Grade "Title IX: The Logic Behind The Law" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Kie Donovan & Sarah Schiffgens 10th Grade "The High Price of Health" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
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Mary Castillo & Jamie San Antonio 10th Grade "Immigration" Bergen County Academies Hackensack, NJ Altice USA |
Justin Whittingham, Luke Sand & William Megginson 11th Grade "Live Freely" Winter Park High School Winter Park, FL Spectrum |
Paloma DiBella 11th Grade "Unlocked" Woodrow Wilson High School Washington, DC Comcast |
Alex Selwyn 9th Grade "Does Your Vote Count?" Palo Alto High School Palo Alto, CA Comcast |
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Lila Chafe, Bianca Martinez Penn & Zoe Abramson 10th Grade "Fostering a Better Nation" Montgomery Blair High School Silver Spring, MD Comcast |
Ethan Maddy, Alec Hopkins & Brendan Murphree 12th Grade "How Important is The 1st Amendment on College Campuses?" Edmond Memorial High School Edmond, OK Cox Communications |
Emily Harris 7th Grade "Speak Up" Correia Middle School San Diego, CA Cox Communications |
Elise Pritchard, Evelyn Reece & John El-Jor 12th Grade "Healthcare Under the 10th Amendment" Midlothian High School Midlothian, VA Comcast |
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Ashley Grant, Mallory Thut & Darline Desforge 8th Grade "The Right to Bear Arms" Nashoba Brooks School Concord, MA Comcast |
Jenna Hann, Kelly Austin & Molly Dugdale 12th Grade "The 4th Amendment: Personal Security in the Modern Era" Nazareth Area High School Nazareth, PA Service Electric |
Alexandra Tomkin 12th Grade "Behind The Gun" Woodrow Wilson Senior High School Washington, DC Comcast |
Vonnia Anwar 8th Grade "Branching into New Medicine" Canterbury Middle School Fort Wayne, IN Comcast |
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Erika Pishl & Corrie Hay 6th Grade "Criminalization of the Homeless" Capital High School Boise, ID Cable ONE |
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