C-Span Student Cam

Allow me to share this instagram post below from the official Student Cam account which shares the contest rules and the theme for 2017-2018. I've taken a break from it in recent years, but my goal has been to promote this to encourage our young people to engage in political issues.

The young people can use their creativity and use their education outside of school hours to win prizes for the students and their teachers or school. An outside project that allows a student critical thinking is certainly something to be encouraged and will be valuable for the student.

Anyway, feel free to share if you believe your child or school could benefit from this. And yes I'm looking at you Bennett School and Harlan High School - GO FALCONS!

Learn more about our documentary competition for middle and high school students at studentcam.org #StudentCam2018 #cspan #students #teachers #documentary

A post shared by C-SPAN StudentCam (@cspanstudentcam) on Sep 27, 2017 at 11:39am PDT

West Chesterfield moves up on leader board State Farm neighborhood assist

From The Chicago Neighborhoods

We got an e-mail recently from West Chesterfield's Michael LaFargue

• THANK those who have voted! and ask PLEASE VOTE TODAY, TOMORROW, THURSDAY and FRIDAY!
  
  UPDATE!
  We have moved up on the Leader Board to #145. We need to be at #40.
  
  VOTE:
  GO TO: www.neighborhoodassist.com
  SIGN UP: name, personal email…
  SEARCH: type in West Chesterfield
  VOTE: Today *
  VOTE: Daily **
  
  Please help the West Chesterfield Community Association Inc. win a $25,000 State Farm "Safety" Surveillance Camera Grant!
  
  Only the "The forty (40) Causes earning the highest number of votes by 11:59:59 P.M. ET, Friday, August 25, 2017 will be designated the winners"

Also there was a press release attached to this e-mail which includes reference to Cook County Judge Raymond Myles who had been murdered this past spring. The private surveillance camera network of West Chesterfield was instrumental in capturing his killers.