[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4930-4931]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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   CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF THE C-SPAN STUDENT DOCUMENTARY 
                                CONTEST

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Johnson) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, most Americans watching these 
proceedings today are watching them on C-SPAN. C-SPAN is a public 
service that was created by the cable industry in 1979 to carry our 
House proceedings and other public affairs programming. It's carried in 
my district by DirecTV, Comcast, and the DISH Network.
  I won't bore you with all of the content that appears on C-SPAN. Some 
is very interesting and some is not. Nevertheless, every year C-SPAN 
holds a student documentary contest for middle school and high school 
students.
  Today, I am proud to announce that one of my constituents, a young 
man named Samuel Gladden, a 10th grade student at Miller Grove High 
School in Lithonia, received $250 for his honorable mention 
documentary: ``Education: The Greatest Common Factor,'' about how 
education is related to the economy.
  I also want to congratulate Mr. Zach Cohen, a seventh grade student 
at the Alfred & Adele Davis Academy in Sandy Springs, Georgia, who 
received $1,500 for the second prize, a documentary entitled: 
``Education: Take a Spin,'' which is about education in the United 
States of America. He interviewed me for this piece, and I want to 
thank him for doing that.
  I want to congratulate both Zach and Samuel for winning these prizes 
out of nearly 2,000 entries.
  You can see these and other winning videos at studentcam.org. I would 
encourage everybody, once you finish

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watching C-SPAN, to go to studentcam.org. It will captivate you to see 
what these young students have done and to listen to their views on 
education and on how our future will be affected by either our 
investment in education or in our desire not to do that.

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