{"id":18886,"date":"2022-05-06T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18886"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T19:34:04","slug":"achs-students-recognized-in-c-span-national-student-video-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18886","title":{"rendered":"ACHS Students Recognized in C-SPAN National Student Video Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220506-spanish.pdf\">en espa\u00f1ol (PDF)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220506-amharic.pdf\">\u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b (PDF)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220506-arabic.pdf\">\u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two student teams from Alexandria City High School (ACHS) were presented with awards this week for their entries in C-SPAN\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentcam.org\/\">StudentCam<\/a> video competition. C-SPAN and Comcast representatives visited the high school this week to recognize the achievement and present awards in the student video competition.<\/p>\n<p>Students were tasked with creating a short (5-6 minute) video documentary related to this year\u2019s competition theme, &#8220;How does the federal government impact your life?&#8221; ACHS students Mia Mervis and Lucy Savarie received honors for their video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tB5XLDMaXEY\">One Stamp At A Time<\/a>, which focuses on food stamps.<\/p>\n<p>As last year\u2019s award ceremony could not be held due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ACHS students Alison Avelar, Elena Gutierrez and Helen Russell were also presented with an honorable mention for the video they entered in the competition last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xZxebtzmAi0\">Dear Mr. President: History or Progress?<\/a> The video focuses on how the Alexandria community addressed the need to replace names on schools and monuments that reflect a racist past.<\/p>\n<p>StudentCam is C-SPAN&#8217;s annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think critically about issues that affect their communities and nation. The competition is open to all students in grades 6-12. C-SPAN awards 150 student prizes and 53 teacher prizes totaling $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two student teams from Alexandria City High School were presented with awards this week for their entries in C-SPAN\u2019s StudentCam video competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 02:46:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}