C-SPAN Awards Ceremony for Local Students

March 5, 2025 (2025 Honorable Mention – The Price of Life: America’s Healthcare Crisis)

8th & 7th grade students Devin Mingardi, Vincent Chase, & Wesley Robson from Community Montessori in Carlsbad, California won Honorable Mention for their documentary, “The Price of Life: America’s Healthcare Crisis.” To view the complete list of winning entries in C-SPAN’s 2025 StudentCam competition, please visit, StudentCam.org

C-SPAN is thrilled to announce the prize-winning documentaries in StudentCam 2025 competition! This year, they received entries from nearly 3,500 students from around the country.

The competition, now in its 21st year, asked students to explore and analyze matters of personal, local or national importance by addressing this year’s theme —“Your Message to the President: What issue is most important to you or your community?

From all of us at the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, congrats to Devin and Vincent! We are so proud to have such bright students impacting our community with an important documentary. 

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