Three Frederick Tuttle Middle School students have won third place in a national C-SPAN StudentCam video contest. The South Burlington students — Neel Desai, Riya Patel, and Ronak Bhagat — won yesterday for their snappy, 8-minute video, “SBNN: Financial Crisis.” Three classmates — Samantha Barrett, Hunter Riehle and Meghan Drouin — won “Honorable Mention” for their video, “Money Matters.” The students were among more than 1900 middle and high schoolers nationwide who submitted videos.

According to a March 10 C-SPAN press release, contest organizers asked student filmmakers to address the question: “What is the most urgent issue for the new president to address after taking office, and why?” Yikes.

“Financial Crisis” will air in early April. For details, see C-SPAN’s StudentCam website. And check out the video. Not bad for middle schoolers!

This article appears in The Animal Issue 2009.

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Mike Ives was a staff writer for Seven Days from January 2007 until October 2009.

3 replies on “South Burlington Middle Schoolers Place 3rd in C-SPAN Contest”

  2. Two of the kids who made the third-prize video, Neel Desai and Riya Patel, also won first place for middle-schoolers in the eSchool News' Empowered Education Awards last September (also on that team was Elizabeth Lee).
    They got to go to D.C., meet senators and have more tech training. Their "coach" was then-UVM student Lou Armistead, who was also making his very funny videos for Seven Days at the time. Looks like some of his sensibility transferred to them, or else they're just a funny bunch of kids. Future "Daily Show" correspondents?

  3. OMG! U GUYS ARE SOOOOO COOL…GOOD JOB..>KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK..I NEED PEOPLE LIKE U! GO NEEL and RIYA!

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