From the comments: DemFest scholarship recipient

Jessica left this comment in the last thread. I appreciate having something to frontpage so as not to devote a whole post to the results of the video contest. (Or more lolcats.)

This takes a while to download, but thought some of you here who contributed Deanfest scholarship money might be interested.

About 24 minutes in, one of our scholarship recipients is interviewed for a couple minutes about his experience at the event. He's the youngest person elected to the NH State House (19 yrs old I think), and even mentions in the interview that it was originally called Deanfest! (Although he was a little confused that it was organized by supporters of Jim Dean. LOL).

His friend (and the 2nd youngest person elected to the NH House, 20 years old I think) was another one of our scholarship recipients and we asked the 2 of them to do a little session about how they were elected (they used the internet very sucessfully as a campaign tool). My mom led them to their training room and they were very nervous because they had never done anything like this before and didn't know what to say. My mom told them if they felt really stuck to just take questions and the discussion would lead itself. I guess it went very well and they were very happy afterwards, and I heard good feedback from the attendees that attended that session that they were very inspirational. Just thought that was a cute story because they're State Reps, but soooo young! Kids! But, our country will be in good hands with people like them stepping forward and getting more informed and involved. That scholarship money was a good investment in our country's future. An investment that's usually very hard to actually see results from. Thank you to those here that helped.

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