Middle Schoolers Win C-SPAN Prizes for NSA DocumentariesDave Maas EFF congratulates students from two middle schools who took home top prizes in the C-SPAN StudentCam 2014 competition for young filmmakers with their documentaries on mass surveillance. Students were tasked with answering the question: Whats the most important issue the U.S. Congress should consider in 2014? According to the C-SPAN press release: Peter Jasperse, Antonia Torfs-Leibman and Madeleine Hutchins, eighth graders at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Md., are national First Prize winners in the Middle School division. Peter, Antonia and Madeleine will share $3,000 for their First Prize documentary, The NSA: The Lengths of Americas Security, about NSA surveillance. Ben Blum, a filmmaker at Saint Marks School in San Rafael, California, scored second place in the same category for his documentary Data Obsession, featuring EFF selfnews Parker Higgins. It will air on Friday, April 11 and you can watch it below: 