2021 C-SPAN StudentCam Winners!

Congratulations to Eastern's 2021 C-SPAN StudentCam Winners! This year 16 students from Eastern Middle School won prizes with a total of 6 documentaries being selected as winners. Also, 25 former Eastern alumni won prizes with a total of 17 documentaries spanning across 4 high schools: Montgomery Blair High School, Winston Churchill High School, Richard Montgomery High School, and Thomas S. Wootton High School.
 
View prior year's C-SPAN StudentCam winners here. 
 
Listed below you will find the winning documentaries selected from Eastern and former alumni!
 
Eastern Middle School Winning C-SPAN StudentCam Documentaries
 
Second Prize
Jamie Lewis, Lily Scheckner & Noelle Mathews
8th Grade
"Pervasive: How Sexual Violence is Becoming Textbook in Schools and Colleges "
Eastern Middle School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
Air Date: Friday, April 9
 
Second Prize
Dermott Foley & Tyler Foley
6th Grade
"The Crisis Within A Crisis: Children with Special Needs & The Pandemic "
Eastern Middle School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
Air Date: Thursday, April 1
 
Third Prize
Ellis Chung, Shreya Ohri & Ashley Taylor
8th Grade
"All Men Are Created Equal: The Underrepresentation of Women in Government"
Eastern Middle School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
 
Honorable Mention
Maxwell Erlebacher, Alexander Bidwell & Ethan Schiffries
8th Grade
"Public Enemy Number One: The War on Drugs"
Eastern Middle School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
 
Honorable Mention
Rohit Das & Andrew Jiang
8th Grade
"Infrastructure: The Disabled Enabler"
Eastern Middle School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
 
Honorable Mention
Asher Anantham, Eric Stewart & Ayush Talukder
8th Grade
"Vaping: A Youth Crisis"
Eastern Middle School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
 
Eastern Alumni Winning Documentaries
 
First Prize
Evelyn Shue & Ida Chen
10th Grade
"High Stakes"
Richard Montgomery High School and
Winston Churchill High School
Rockville and Potomac, MD
Comcast
Air Date: Tuesday, April 20

 

Third Prize
Alyssa Limjuco, Gabriela Kolbe & Charlotte Foster
10th Grade
"Reclamation"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Third Prize

Samantha Jaffe, Eliana Finberg & Sophia Stein
10th Grade
"Making it to Motherhood"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Third Prize
Simran Ohri & Bridget Griffith
11th & 12th Grade
"Champions for Justice: Supreme Court Reform"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
 

Honorable Mention

James Mu & Alanna Li
11th Grade
"Education Policy: A New Era"
Thomas S. Wootton High School
Rockville, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention

Marijke Friedman & Julianne Garnett
11th Grade
"Ranked Choice Voting: More Voice, More Choice"
Montgomery Blair High School & Albert Einstein High School
Silver Spring and Kensington, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention
Ben Rozner & Gabe Prevots
10th Grade
"What's the Big Deal: The Electoral College in Modern America"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention

Samantha Frey, Sedise Tiruneh & Sophia Houston
10th Grade
"COVID-19's Hidden Victims- The Increasing Homeless Crisis in the United States"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention
Geneva Palmer & Olivia Schulz
11th Grade
"The Forgotten Population: Prisons During the COVID-19 Crisis"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention
Derek Mu & Jonathan Fan
9th Grade
"Lifeline"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention
Josh Greenbaum, Aisling Gearhart & Max Bowman
10th Grade
"Our Students Deserve Better: Education Disparity"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention
Isaac Larson, Anna Marchler & Henry Davies
10th Grade
"TikTok's Ties: Digital Security in an Age of Global Connection"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention
Marissa Boucher & Annie Guo
9th Grade
"Fractured: America and the Partisan Divide"
Richard Montgomery High School
Rockville, MD
Comcast
 
Honorable Mention
David Shukhin, Frederick Alfonso-Frank & William Ashford
10th Grade
"Science not Politics: How Political Polarization Hinders Climate Policy"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
 
Honorable Mention
Ava Barham, Elizabeth Leca & Ila Raso
10th Grade
"Educating Inclusivity: An Exploration of the Inequity in Public Education"
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, MD
Comcast
 
Honorable Mention
Allison Fan
10th Grade
"Muffled"
Winston Churchill High School
Potomac, MD
Comcast

 

Honorable Mention
Kaitlyn Li
10th Grade
"COVID-19: The Inequalities We See"
Winston Churchill High School
Potomac, MD
Comcast

 

Congratulations once again to all of our C-SPAN StudentCam Winners!