Clearwater High Student Takes 2nd in C-SPAN Video Competition

Alexandra Chandler, a junior at Clearwater High School, placed second in C-SPAN's national 2013 StudentCam competition. 

Chandler will receive $1,500 for her documentary, “Guns In Our Schools,” which is about school safety and security, according to a C-SPAN news release.

Her documentary will air on C-SPAN at 6:50 a.m. on April 20. (To view it now, click here). 

The 9th annual StudentCam competition, according to C-SPAN, asked students this year, “What’s the most important issue the president should consider in 2013?” 

Chandler's video placed second out of 1,893 videos submitted from more than 3,500 students.

“StudentCam proves yearly that students are paying attention to the pressing issues of the day- and right now, that’s the economy,” said Joanne Wheeler, C-SPAN Vice President of Education Relations in a news release. “As the president begins his second term, students took advantage of a great opportunity to send him a public message about what is most important to them, and the winning videos are compelling.”

According to C-SPAN, documentaries were judged by a panel of C-SPAN education representatives and evaluated based on the "thoughtful examination of the competition’s theme, quality of expression, inclusion of varying sides of the documentary’s topic, and effective incorporation of C-SPAN programming."

To view Chandler's and other winning videos, cspan.org/studentcam 

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