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 mounted on the roof, spinning at high waves. They currently cost upwards of 70,000 per unit. These three systems give Autonomous Vehicles an accurate view of the world around them. Connected and autonomous are sort of being developed in parallel. You will start to hear more about connected vehicles because that is the ultimate implementation. It is the brain. Imagine in internet system an internet server working with other internet systems. It receives and fills request. As you add more devices, it becomes increasingly complicated. How does it manage all of this data . It broadcasts to vehicles in the immediate area. For example, if my car is breaking rapidly, only vehicles within 200 feet need to know. However, if there is a car n accident blocking the interstate, vehicles as far away as 50 miles need to know. The university of michigan has created the Autonomous Vehicle testing city. Thats facility Autonomous Vehicle testing facility. The reaction times is so fast and everything is so fast and they are always watching. Even if you do hit the pedestrian, maybe you hit them going one mile or two miles an hour. The impact is drastically reduced. They try to avoid it. Why . Because they always drive the speed limit. The landscape of driving can really change through a computerized network. You no longer need to stop at intersection. You can cut your starting and stopping by 75 . You should get a massive increase in fuel efficiency. Think of it as a system of bumbs, bends, which take time away from your day. This is far more efficient. All of these methods are great but people still may be uncomfortable with Autonomous Vehicles. Some people feel they are in a death trap. They dont trust this computer to do the driving. Others do not think there is anything with them but they really have to give up control. Baby boomers are everconscious of the muscle cars they grew up with. They like that tactile feeling of grew up with. They like that tactile feeling of being in control. And there is a new risk, cyber security. You did not say the magic word. It is a terrifying experience to have someone take control of computer on wheel. On wheels. This mans experience with hackers is both frightening and foreboding for the future. If hackers can take control of the vehicle, people in cars and in the community are at risk. You bring traffic to a halt. Cars are just stopped. If you want to make a change of calibration from a different module, you have to have the right code to do it. If you are just hooked up by your computer, you can break into it. If you get a signal that says i am going 180 miles an hour but other cars are looking at you and say, i do not believe you. This is what you said, this is what you do. You can use those to detect rogue users or fake uses. At this point in time, we do not have specific regulations. We are leaving that to the regulators sent to the private sector. I have been in automotive for 23 years. All of a sudden, we have these autonomoustype driving systems and vehicles. We want to make sure we dont move so fast we ask the president to get involved. This beat of integration is largely dependent on Public Opinion and the trust in the technology the speed of integration. This relaxed regulatory stance encourages innovation, however it will likely turn opinion against the technology and setback largescale implementation many years. Congress should work hard to turn that 90 error to zero. Dear mr. President , work with congress to prevent 60 million accidents, 250 billion in accidents and over 38,000 deaths every year. To watch all of the prizewinning documentaries in this years studentcam competition, visit studentcam. Org. Is a studentdwards at jenks high school. Her documentary on animal farming is entitled behind the bite. I chose antibiotic resistance because im a vegetarian of five years. Did anything surprise you about that process . How much work goes into making a documentary. Drive to interview an homage family. Amish family. I had to trick my dad to driving me five hours to kansas this is a chicken sandwich. Which you can get from here, supposedly comes from a place like this, and is ultimately cheaper than anything you can get there. But i dont think i could really tell you what i am eating or where it came from. And i not just talking about the and, i am not just talking about the sandwich. Cagedoes it all mean on products in the store . Eating is a vital element to survival. How can we not Pay Attention to what we are putting into our mouths. I guess the question is, what are we eating . Or better yet, what lies are we being fed . Let us start with the sandwich and go behind the bun to find out. First, we need to find out where the chicken on our sandwich has come from. A concentrated animal feeding operation. After further research, for poultry, a small a large is well over 200,000. Now, i cannot help but wonder, with so many animals in such a small, confined, and unsanitary space, how are they all staying healthy . That answer, according to the Agricultural Industry, is antibiotics. The scenario where we raise livestock without antibiotics would result in the suffering and illness and death of those animals. What is a practice that goes on widely is to put antibiotics in the feed of animals to growth so you have animals that are bigger, with more meat, that has little to do with them being sick. Are they used to prevent the spread of elements . Or are they just a growth stimulant . What other affects do they have . I decided to travel near and far. A far bigger problem is the antibiotics given to animals, and more and more superbugs youve all youve all of evolve. Superbugs are also known as drugresistant bacteria. This means that the bacteria inside of us are no longer affected by the combating skills of antibiotics and other drugs. Drugresistant bacteria is one of the most Serious Public Health issues that we face today. They cost tens of thousands of deaths. Millions of illnesses. And that is just in the United States. The numbers are sure to climb unless we take concrete, clear and coordinated action. It is a big problem. There is also the opinion that it is mostly the overuse of antibiotics that protect the true source of resistance he. Resistance. Studies by the World Health Organization has revealed that 70 of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used for agricultural production. The majority of antibiotic resistance correlates to the production of meat. The center of Disease Control and prevention estimates that 2 Million People are becoming infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria every year and of those 23,000 died with those numbers growing. Tragic numbers like that, you would think congress and the president would take action. Last year, the white house revealed its action plan which sets forth ambitious goals. To fight antibiotic resistance. But that National Action plan turned out to be very inactive. It was too loose and optional for companies in the Agricultural Industry. Nothing has really changed. I have been a vegetarian for five years, so i am safe for resistantiotic bacteria . It is that the bacteria in the environment in general just become resistant to those antibiotics. The environment being soil, plants, runoff water, transportation of animals and other surrounding factors that allow these antibiotics to spread even more quickly. Should we just be eating cage free, grassfed, organic products . Or, are we missing something in the fine print . Take the label cage free. My hands are cage free that i. I can also be cage free in a layered house with 30,000 hens. It merely means that my hands ens are not in a one foot by one foot cage. What about grass fed . Every calf born is out in the grass up until the last 6090 days of their life. That is where 90 of the beef in the United States has been fattened, for the last three months of its life. Is there any cost difference because of these labels . After comparing two 12dozen cartons of eggs, it is obvious the label was upping the price. The same thing for organic labels. We are buying poorer quality products and paying more for them and unknowingly continuing our support for these practices. It seems like we have heard problem after problem. What is the solution . Well, here is a start. One, Congress Needs to adjust the confinement and health regulations. Starting with the urgency to ban antibiotic usage among the Agricultural Industry because of its negative effects on the Public Health and the environment as a whole. Two, as far as labeling goes, we are the ones buying into this. What you really need to do is compare food labels. You need to educate yourself on what you need to be eating. In addition to this, the fda needs to crack down on its standards and allow for more enable more fair and accurate labeling of its products. After taking this journey, we now know the different backgrounds to a multitude of foods. Even with this new understanding of what we are eating, it does not mean you will change your diet or what you choose to eat. But, now that you are enlightened, it will make you think before you take a bite. To watch all of the prizewinning documentaries and this years studentcam competition, visit studentcam. Org. Amanda, amy, and karen are students at Montgomery Blair high school. They believe child labor in the Tobacco Industry is it an urgent issue in their documentary entitled trotting in the fields. Trotting in the fields. Take a look. We started research in october and turned it in in january, so roughly three or four months. My thoughts changed a lot. Before we started the research process, i have no idea child labor was going on in america in the Tobacco Industry. Researching, did interviews, i became very aware, and now, im very passionate about the issue. I think that just learning about this issue was one of the strongest takeaways because nobody is talking about it. Its not on the media except for post magazinen article. Nobody is really talking about it, so when we started to delve into it and look at these Different Things that cause children to be working on tobacco farms, it really opened our eyes that this was happening in the u. S. This painful stomach ache me. It was so strong that i was crying at night. My mom was going to take me to the emergency room because i was feeling really bad. We feel dizzy, suffocated from the sun, tired and we. As ford labor is defined that defines their childhood,. Nd potential and dignity while many agree that labor is harmful to the health of children, many migrant or immigrant families are forced to send their children into the workforce for the additional income. The loose regulations of the Tobacco Industry create jobs for many undocumented workers. While children were tobacco can suffer serious consequences and educational drawbacks, families enough moneyt have to support themselves. Because of the duality of this issue, the new president and Congress Must address child labor in the Tobacco Industry in 2017. The farming and agriculture industry is one of the most dangerous in america. The Tobacco Industry is particularly hazardous because workers are exposed to nicotine, a poisonous compound that occurs naturally in tobacco plants. This exposure to toxic chemicals causes many laborers to develop acute nicotine poisoning, commonly known as greenlee sickness. We called a representative of rhode island who has previously introduced legislation on this issue. These children are working in and dot conditions things like harvesting tobacco toxic as well as plant pesticides. As a result of this, children were experiencing very Serious Health consequences. Loss of appetite, dizziness, lightheadedness, headaches, sleeplessness. Nicotine is both liquid and fat soluble, so when workers go into a way yield covered with morning dew, they are absorbing even more nicotine into their system than usual. These toxins are absorbed and not only have shortterm effect such as rashes and wheezing but heartan cause changes in rate and difficulty breathing, which can lead to death. We called a director at the center for Worker Health to discuss the severity of the Health Implications for child laborers. Children are just small adults. They are children. All their systems are developing. Their neurological system is developing at that point and they are exposed to neurotoxins in nicotine, so it can have greater effects. Education is a necessary tool in order to succeed. The United Nations secretarygeneral stressed the importance of education in september 2016. Education is a human right by working on farms instead of being in school, children are risking their opportunities. When visiting read mackie, he explained how childrens education is affected ive been working in the Tobacco Industry. You show up in school after a weekend of working, and you are completely exhausted, and youve got a full day of school work ahead of you, so it is very challenging. We think it up out of three children in these migrant communities we believe peter we believe two out of three drop out of school. The numbers are really bad. Schooldren that are in for even what additional year have the potential to increase their earnings in the long run by 10 . Delegate Alfonso Lopez from virginia also spoke about the effects working on tobacco farms has. The hard choices these kids and families are having to make regarding making money. How they support their family or attending school. Significantlys impacted when children are working on tobacco farms. While there are many people that believe child labor in the Tobacco Industry should be banned, there are still many who believe it is necessary. We visited chris middletons family farm to discuss his experience of working there as a teenager. I think more teenagers should experience the same sort of thing. Families with tobacco heritage have a very different approach to this issue compared to migrants or immigrant families. Due to the loose regulations of the Tobacco Industry, many undocumented children are able to find jobs out on the field. The work may be dangerous, but records, most of child labor is caused by the imperial need to survive. The Washington Post detailed the reasons why child labor in regards to tobacco is that an accessible and missed industry for immigrants. Latino families, undocumented families domigrant this work because not a lot of other people will do this work. Child labor in the Tobacco Industry is an issue that is rarely spoken about and often not given the attention it deserves. Children working in tobacco fields deal with Serious Health and educational implications that stay with them for life and keep them in the cycle of poverty. I dont think the solution is to say those people cannot work these jobs. Its that you have to legitimize them. Regulations in addition to adding tobacco to the list of hazardous industries, must be put in place to protect laborers, especially those as delicate as children. Because of the many layers of this issue, the new congress as and president must address child labor in the Tobacco Industry in 2017. Watch all of the pricewinning documentaries in this years studentcam competition. Studentcam. Org. Landesmdis and ans document or on islamophobia and the refugee crisis is titled the crisis and the fear. Its not a choice to come when you are a refugee. With the new president ial administrations recent actions, it seems to because i a lot of hate, which is caused desk called islamophobia. I knew i needed to do something. I thought that making this video would be the best use of my time. It is imperative that in 2017, congress and the new president work on bringing more Syrian Refugees into the United States. Most people are aware of there being a syrian refugee crisis in the world, but what is this crisis . The syrian refugee crisis has been called the worst humanitarian crisis since world war ii. The Syrian Civil War has had a real impact on the population of syria. There have been atrocities committed against the civilian population, so its not safe to be in a conflict zone. 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