Featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle School High School middle and High School Students completed videos answering the question what do they want the president ial candidates to address. In the midst of these challenging times, i have some exciting news. A team of talented High School Students from Long Beach Polytechnic High School are the first place winners in cspans National Documentary competition. Studentcam. Cspan partners every year with spectrum for this competition which has dunes create short documentaries about an issue of national importance. 5000 400 students from across the United States participated creating films that reflect their interests and passions. I was honored to be interviewed by the long beach High School Students for their winning film so it is and i am incredibly proud of their talent, hard work, and persistence. Congratulations to hamid, catherine, and pia. Our first prize High School West award goes to hamid torabzadeh,
Pounds. Guest somebody said my gosh, you lost 30 pounds, how much do you weigh now . I dont want to get into that, but losing 30 pounds is a lot. If you have ever had this or get this, you will find out you have absolutely no desire to eat, you dont have any taste, appetite. To crankeally started just me was i was constantly trying to get under a couple more blankets to get my body temperature back up. I was shaking all the time. I didnt have the respiratory part, which i am really blessed, but i had the other things, muscle aches, fatigue, cramping. Headaches. Dizziness. A loss of appetite, loss of taste. More than anything else was the exhaustion. I was sleeping all the time. I didnt have the strength to get out of bed. My wife was with me. She got through that. She did not pick it up, fortunately. There, this is a little bit different than we ever had before. We will get through it, but three things. The health factor, the physical health of people, the Mental Health people are unde
Steve, can you explain to us why you decided this is the moment to put together a project like this . Started fourfort with the aim to understand the government better are the governments own numbers owny the governments numbers. Where does the money come from and where is it spent. The security and Exchange Commission requires this very factual document required called the 10k report. Journey andn this we really learned a lot at the federal, state, and local level. What about the need for hard in the and real data middle of the situation the countries . Country is in. It is more essential than ever. Government data has a hard time staying current. If you look at the recent numbers on the Affordable Care act, they are three years out of date. Right now, we struggle to have uptotheminute data about the coronavirus and its impact on the economy. And if you are sitting at the federal level, you want to see those things consolidated in real time, which is very difficult to do now since the
National importance. 5,400 students from across the United States participated creating films that reflect their interests and passions. I was honored to be interviewed by the Long Beach High School students for their winning film, and im so incredibly proud of their talent, hard work, and persistence. Congratulations to hamid, catherine, and pia. And congratulations to everyone who participated in this competition. Our first prize High School West award goes to hamid torabzadeh, katherine padilla, and pia hao, 10th graders at Long Beach Polytechnic High School in long beach, california. Their winning entry is called vision 2020 restoring the integrity of democracy. This struggle is about taking on the incredibly powerful institutions, take control of the economic and political life of our nation. We took on a political machine that tried to take away your voice and your vote. They tried to take away your dignity and your destiny. Say we will would drain the swap and thats exactly what
Featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle and high school asked the question, what issued you most issues do you most want 2020 candidates to address . Our second prize goes to night ninth graders from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in long beach, california, where cspan is available through spectrum. Their winning entry is titled, opportunity for all. We want president ial candidates to talk about tuition should be free. We chose this topic because we believe education is important to our future. Opportunity, who gets it in america . Is it something reserved just for those at the top . Opportunity. Opportunity, for every one of our kids. And i underline every one of our kids, to get a first rate education. You have kids coming out with 100,000 or 200,000 of student debt and they cant survived we are taking away opportunities from them and that is wrong. Statistics show when they have the opportunity to go to college, even if they dont go through that,