Deadline is Jan. 20 for Eighth Annual Video Competition — $50,000 in prizes to be awarded
Want to earn an extra $5,000 over Winter Break? That’s the top prize for C-SPAN’s 2012 StudentCam competition, and BendBroadband wants to remind you, it’s not too late to enter!
In partnership with BendBroadband, C-SPAN is asking all middle school students (grades 6-8) and high school students (grades 9-12) to produce a five- to eight- minute video documentary using C-SPAN programming that focuses on why the U.S. Constitution is important to them.
The C-SPAN Education Foundation supports the contest, now in its eighth year, through $50,000 in cash prizes for 75 student awards. The Grand Prize winner with the best overall entry will be awarded $5,000, with multiple cash prize awards of $250, $500, $750, $1,500, and $3,000 to students in both middle and high school categories. Teachers are also eligible to compete for cash prizes.
Competition Guidelines
Entries must represent varying points of view, and include C-SPAN video that supports the documentary’s topic. Students, working alone or in groups up to three, can upload their entry form and videos directly online at www.studentcam.org. Documentaries must be the original work of students; however teachers may provide guidance and critiques.
The deadline for entries is Friday, January 20, 2012. Winners will be announced in March 2012, with the top 27 winning videos to air on C-SPAN in April 2012. Complete competition details and the entry form are available at the competition’s website, www.studentcam.org. In addition to cash prizes, past winners have had their documentaries recognized by the White House.
About BendBroadband
BendBroadband is a family-owned, local company serving Central Oregon since 1955. A leader in the cable and broadband sectors, the company offers an extensive range of broadband, cable and telephone services for commercial and residential customers. Central Oregon facilities include more than a thousand miles of fiber and coax infrastructure along with metropolitan optical Ethernet, T-1/PRI and hosted PBX services serving the business community. BendBroadband offers multiple phone and high- speed Internet options with speeds up to 60 Mbps. BendBroadband operates one of the fastest wireless broadband networks in the nation, which covers an expanded Central Oregon footprint along with outdoor Wi-Fi. The company was among the first to be 100% digital and offers Video on Demand, digital video recorders, HDTV (with more than 100 HD channels) and a choice of interactive program guides. BendBroadband focuses its corporate contributions and sponsorship efforts on youth, and by supporting an array of arts and entertainment in Central Oregon. In the community, BendBroadband provides extensive local sports, civic programming and local features created and produced by COTV, channel 11 and 611.
For more info, visit www.bendbroadband.com. The company recently opened the BendBroadband Vault, Tier III, LEED Gold-certified green colocation data center providing hosted storage for primary site and disaster recovery needs, equipment colocation and managed services. For more info about the Vault, please visit www.bendbroadbandvault.com.
About C-SPAN Classroom
StudentCam (twitter.com/@StudentCam is sponsored by C-SPAN Classroom, www.c-spanclassroom.org (www.twitter.com/cspan_classroom), a free membership service dedicated to support educators’ use of C-SPAN programming in their classes or for research. Members of C-SPAN Classroom may access free Timely Teachable Videos and video clips for use in the classroom, as well as lesson plans, handouts and ways to connect with other C-SPAN Classroom members. C-SPAN Classroom has reached more than one million students since its inception in 1987.
About C-SPAN
Created by the cable TV industry and now in over 100 million TV households,
C-SPAN programs three public affairs television networks in both SD and HD;
C- SPAN Radio, heard in Washington DC and nationwide via XM Satellite Radio; and a video- rich website which hosts the C-SPAN Video Library. Visit http://www.c-span.org/.
