C-SPAN’s Bus Coming to HHS to Honor Charlie Ehrman

C-SPAN is coming to Huntington High School on Friday May 6, 2016 to honor junior Charlie Ehrman for the teenager’s award winning video on genetically modified organisms.

Mr. Ehrman captured national honorable mention honors in C-SPAN’s StudentCam contest for his insightful short film, “GMO: The Ascending Era.” He earned a $250 stipend.

Cablevision is joining C-SPAN in recognizing Mr. Ehrman for his exceptional film. He will be presented with a Certificate of Merit during a ceremony before a crowd of classmates, teachers, family members and local elected officials.

The legendary C-SPAN bus will pull into the Huntington High School parking lot by noon on Friday and will stay for 90 minutes. Aboard the bus, teachers and students will experience on-board multimedia technology that showcases C‑SPAN’s programming and resources dedicated to showing the American political process.

“The C-SPAN StudentCam contest was valuable in gaining exposure for my filmmaking, as well as opening eyes to the good and bad of GMOs,” Mr. Ehrman said. “I am excited about the bus coming to Huntington High School on Friday and look forward to receiving the honor.”

The C‑SPAN Bus, now in its 23rd year on the road, partners with local cable providers to visit schools and community events across the country to promote C‑SPAN’s educational and political resources and programming for students, teachers, and the public.

“Cablevision is proud to once again partner with C-SPAN on bringing its annual StudentCam documentary video competition to schools nationwide,” said Jen Ostrager, Cablevision’s vice president of public affairs. We congratulate this year’s national winner, Charles Ehrman for his perceptive video. It’s vital that our young people are politically engaged and informed, especially in an election year. The StudentCam competition provides students with a platform from which to voice their opinions regarding today’s political issues.”

Mr. Ehrman has worked closely with Huntington art teacher Heather Swan, who leads the high school’s video arts program. He’s excelled in his studies and his efforts have gained plenty of fans The teenager is eyeing the University of Southern California, which has one of the most highly regarded film school in the United States.

“StudentCam encourages middle and high school students to think critically about issues that affect our communities and nation,” according to C-SPAN. “This year, students were asked to create a five to seven minute video documentary about the topic, ‘Road to the White House: What’s the issue YOU most want candidates to discuss during the 2016 presidential campaign?’ In response, C‑SPAN received 2,887 video submissions from almost 6,000 students in 45 states and Washington, DC. 150 student and 53 teacher prizes were awarded, totaling $100,000 in prize money. Visit www.studentcam.org to watch all the winning videos for 2016.

Created by the cable TV industry and now in nearly 100 million households, C‑SPAN programs three public affairs television networks in both SD and HD; C- SPAN Radio heard over the air, online and even available as an App (Android, iPhone, Blackberry); and a video- rich website offering live coverage of government events and access to the vast archive of C‑SPAN programming. Visit http://www.c-span.org/ for coverage and schedules; like us on Facebook/cspan and follow @cspan on Twitter.

C‑SPAN.org is a searchable, video-rich site that has every C‑SPAN program aired since 1987. The public can access this extensive online collection — over 218,000 hours of political and governmental footage — for free, and share user-generated video clips by email and social media.