today we are talking with third prize high school winner alex weltman from boulton -- patton rouge, louisiana. welcome to c-span. >> thanks. >> why did you decide to focus on the american free market economy for your documentary? >> one of the reasons was -- i was brainstorming about what we should do with this video with my friend stephen. we were trying to think about what topic no one else would focus on. what are some common strains of that people agree with, maybe military, freedom of speech. what is another strength that america has that no one else will think of? we thought, oh, the free market economy. people do not often think about that when they think about the great things about america. obviously, this is one of the great things about america. we decided to make that our topic. as it turned up, we to -- we were able to find a lot of small and large business owners that we were able to interview. >> what did you learn from your interviews? >> i learned a lot about what it takes to start a business. when we interviewed the business owners, we did not really focus on what kind of fo