On Friday, Comcast is bringing C-SPAN’s Digital Bus to Ballard to honor middle school student Leo Pfeifer, who is a second prize winner in StudentCam 2011.

StudentCam is an annual documentary competition that encourages students to create short films about political and public policy matters.
This year’s theme was “Washington, DC, Through My Lens” and asked middle and high school students to address issues directly impacting their communities. 
 
Pfeifer's video titled “Homelessness: An American Crisis” deals with the homelessness issue on a local as well as national level.
Pfeifer, a student at Salmon Bay Middle School, is one of 75 StudentCam winners after 1,069 entries submitted by 1, 481 students from across the country.
As a second place winner, Pfeifer will be awarded $1,500.

The Digital Bus is on a national tour and will stop at Salmon Bay Middle School on Friday morning where Pfeifer will be honored during a school wide assembly at 9:30 a.m.

Students will have the opportunity to tour the Digital Bus and learn about C-SPAN’s public affairs programming.