NAZARETH, Pa. – In his five-minute documentary, “Lines of Power,” Nazareth High School junior Adhitiya Adavan explores what he feels challenges the enduring power of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n
“Gerrymandering is the process of manipulating the boundaries to favor one political party over another,” he says in the video.<\/p>\n
Out of 1,800 national submissions, the 16-year-old received one of 87 honorable mentions in the annual C-SPAN StudentCam documentary competition.<\/p>\n
He found out Wednesday through a text message during a test at school.<\/p>\n
“I got home, and then I told my mom, and then she was really happy for me and I think, I think that’s when I really started to process what had just happened,” he said.<\/p>\n
In honor of America 250, students had to show how the values of the founding fathers touch on contemporary issues impacting communities today.<\/p>\n
For Adavan, who is also on the school’s mock trial team and a representative in the high school Model United Nations, his worldview expanded by finding and interviewing experts.<\/p>\n
“What I learned is I do have this credibility when I\u2019m suddenly cold-emailing someone, asking them for their opinion on this topic, which I didn\u2019t know I had before. It was very interesting to me,” he said.<\/p>\n
The project was part of AP history teacher Patricia Cunningham\u2019s curriculum. Cunningham says the “greatest generation” may still come.<\/p>\n
“I think a lot of times we talk about the next generation as if they aren’t a hope for the future, but that’s just not true. They have all the potential, all the ability,” Cunningham said.<\/p>\n
For Adavan, that includes the motto that all are created equal and that the vote should reflect that.<\/p>\n
“The true change comes from the people and not the politicians,” the teen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAZARETH, Pa. – In his five-minute documentary, “Lines of Power,” Nazareth High School junior Adhitiya Adavan explores what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,5750],"class_list":["post-137871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-nazareth-northampton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}