C-SPAN Visits Campus, Honors Three Baldwin Seniors with Documentary Award

C-SPAN visited campus on April 9th to celebrate and honor students for their prize-winning entries in the student video documentary competition, StudentCam. The annual contest received 1,700 entries and awarded only 150 prizes. Seniors Hafsa Kanchwala, Emi Maeda and Emily Sidlow won Honorable Mention and $250 for the video, Our Message to the President: Affordable Housing, which they completed as part of Dr. Athan Biss's U.S. Politics and Civics class this fall. In their documentary, the seniors feature Diane Yentel, current President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and interviewed Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, Dr. Sheryl Forste-Grupp, former Baldwin English teacher and Havertown's Ward 2 Commissioner, and Madeleine Marr ’17, Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator John Fetterman.

 

During the C-SPAN presentation on campus, Dr. Forste-Grupp and Pennsylvania Senator Amanda Cappelletti offered brief remarks during the campus visit. The students answered questions from C-SPAN's Rachel Katz and received a number of certificates from their elected representatives. 

 

C-SPAN’s StudentCam is an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think critically about issues that affect our communities and our nation. In this presidential inaugural year, students in grades 6-12 were asked to create a short-video documentary on a topic that related to the competition theme, “Your Message to the President.”