Created videos answering the question, what issue do you most want the 2020 president ial candidates to address . Our second prize High School East award goes to ava lazar and mia lazar, 10th and 12th graders at Blacksburg High School in blacksburg, virginia, where cspan is available through comcast. Their winning entry is entitled burning the bridge the story of the Mountain Valley pipeline. Let me tell you a story. It is a story about need, about community, about power. It is a story about the wonders of modern technology and their consequences. This is the story of the Mountain Valley pipeline, a 303milelong natural gas pipeline that is being installed in the Appalachian Mountains of virginia and west virginia. In the late 20th century, natural gas became cheaper and more accessible because of a process called fracking. Today, natural gas is the number one source of Electricity Generation in the United States. Instead of relying on road or rail, compressed natural gas can be transpo
The firstplace winners and we will wrap things up in about 1. 5 hours with the number one grand prize studentc cspans studentm contest. Students at milan high school. Their documentary on Autonomous Vehicles is entitled live and let drive. Take a look. There are approximately 16 million auto accidents in the United States every year, costing the economy over 250 billion. Traffic accidents accounted for the deaths of over 38,000 citizens in 2016. This is a problem selfdriving cars can fix. 94 of traffic accidents are caused by human error. This explains the push of Companies Like gm, ford, and mercedesbenz toward Autonomous Vehicle technology. But, how do they work . And lightar act as the eyes of the vehicle. They easily identify things like stoplights and pedestrians. But, they have problem with things like weather and depth. They send out electro magnetic waves to measure reflection. To surround the vehicle and to determine if theres anything in the vehicles have. Lightar systems are
The firstplace winners and we will wrap things up in about 1. 5 hours with the number one grand prize studentc cspans studentm contest. Students at milan high school. Their documentary on Autonomous Vehicles is entitled live and let drive. Take a look. There are approximately 16 million auto accidents in the United States every year, costing the economy over 250 billion. Traffic accidents accounted for the deaths of over 38,000 citizens in 2016. This is a problem selfdriving cars can fix. 94 of traffic accidents are caused by human error. This explains the push of Companies Like gm, ford, and mercedesbenz toward Autonomous Vehicle technology. But, how do they work . And lightar act as the eyes of the vehicle. They easily identify things like stoplights and pedestrians. But, they have problem with things like weather and depth. They send out electro magnetic waves to measure reflection. To surround the vehicle and to determine if theres anything in the vehicles have. Lightar systems are
All month, we are featuring studentcam winners. This year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. Our grand Prize Winners are sisters from blacksburg, virginia. Ava lazar is homeschooled in the seventh grade. Mia lazar is in the ninthgrade. Their documentary on refugees and immigration policy is titled the tempest tossed. Is not about what Political Party you are. Its more about values and helping these people. As parents, this topic was particularly personal because both my parents were refugees. So i think that also drove them a little bit. When they do some video on a topic thats personal for them, that helps a lot. I think you saw the energy in that. The reason we named the documentary the tempest tossed is because inside the museum of the statue of liberty, there is a plaque with a poem saying, send these the homeless, tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. This poem was written specifically for the statue of liberty, and w
All month, we are featuring studentcam winners. This year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. Our grand Prize Winners are sisters from blacksburg, virginia. Ava lazar is homeschooled in the seventh grade. Mia lazar is in the ninthgrade. Their documentary on refugees and immigration policy is titled the tempest tossed. Is not about what Political Party you are. Its more about values and helping these people. As parents, this topic was particularly personal because both my parents were refugees. So i think that also drove them a little bit. When they do some video on a topic thats personal for them, that helps a lot. I think you saw the energy in that. The reason we named the documentary the tempest tossed is because inside the museum of the statue of liberty, there is a plaque with a poem saying, send these the homeless, tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. This poem was written specifically for the statue of liberty, and w