Howard Co. Students Win National Honors In C-SPAN Competition

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Five 10th grade students from Centennial High School's humanities program earned national accolades in C-SPAN's 22nd annual student cam documentary competition.

The students were honored during an assembly at the high school earlier this month with school and local leaders on hand.

Alara Kocoglu, Angela Yang and Satvik Jain won third prize for their submission, “Removed: The Past, Present, and Future of BookCensorship in America.” Katie Fishman and Rachel Weintraub won honorable mention for their video, “The 51st Star: D.C. Statehood and the Broken Promise of the Declaration.”

The teams’ winning videos were two of 150 entries selected from more than 1,800 submissions.

The videos were completed as part of the students’ Humanities II Social Studies class with CHS social studies teacher and instructional team lead David Riddler and English teacher Corey O’Brien serving as mentors.

CHS students turned in more than 20 submissions for the
competition this year.

StudentCam is C-SPAN’s annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think about issues that affect communities and the country.