What is StudentCam?

StudentCam is a national video documentary competition sponsored by C-SPAN.  It encourages students in grades 6-12 to think critically about issues that affect our community, state, and nation.

Students are required to create a 5-7 minute documentary about the theme below.

“A Message to the U.S. Congress”
What’s the most important issue the U.S. Congress should consider in 2014?

To learn more about C-SPAN Student Cam, visit:  http://www.studentcam.org/.

Never Confuse Leadership with Popularity

National Churchill Museum Oratory Competition 

for Middle School Students

This Year’s Topic is “Never confuse leadership with popularity.”  This is a great competition to help promote "The 7 Habits of of Highly Effective Teens."  to find out more about the competition, please visit the National Churchill Museum site. 

 

Earth Day Celebration Contest

 
5th grade students are invited to participate in the 2013 Earth Day Slogan Contest.  The deadline is Feb. 28.   Check out the link above for more information.

Touch the Sky

Students can win a visit from children's book author, Ann Malaspina.  Read the excerpt from the "Missourian" to find out how your students can earn a visit from this author.
 
"Touch the Sky" is an inspirational children's book about Olympic High Jumper Alice Coachman, the first African American woman to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games. The author of the book, Ann Malaspina, will be in Washington Oct. 13 to share her inspirational story about Coachman at the annual Run to Read, organized by The Missourian and the Four Rivers Area Family YMCA.

Local students have the opportunity to win a school visit from Malaspina on Oct. 12 by entering a writing contest sponsored by the Missourian In Education program. To enter, children in kindergarten through high school are invited to write a letter to the Olympian, who turns 90 in November.
Taking the line from Malaspina's book, "But a dream is a beginning and as Alice grew older, her dream was to soar," the students should tell Coachman why her story is inspiring and share their own dreams and aspirations.

Letters may be handwritten or typed and children may include hand-drawn pictures. To enter, submit letters to "Alice Coachman Dreams to Soar Contest," Missourian In Education, P.O. Box 336, Washington, Mo., 63090. Letters may be hand-delivered to any Missourian office, but should be labeled for the contest.

The winner of Malaspina's school author presentation will be selected from a random drawing from all letters received on or before 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 26. The drawing will be held during the Book Buzz birthday celebration for Newsbee, "10 Years -- 10,000 Books," at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30 at the Washington Public Library. The public is invited to this event.

For more information, contact Chris Stuckenschneider at cstucky@me.com or (636)239-7272.\

http://www.emissourian.com/features_people/newspapers_in_education/missourian_in_education/article_25c1c768-fbb9-11e1-9f4d-001a4bcf887a.html