comunidad del valle." >>> we begin today with a local winner of the education nation contest, a recipient from nbc. he's here on "comunidad del val valle." you won a good chunk of change for your high school in the south bay. congratulations. >> thank you. >> so education nation is a nationwide campaign by the nbc network and tell us how you found out about it, and you had to write an essay. tell us about your essay. >> in the beginning of the year when i first started in my broadcast journalism class, which is a pretty underfeunded class, my teacher came across it online, i think, and asked if we were interested, if we wanted to submit an essay. so i took her up on the offer and sent it in. >> what was your essay about? when you're writing essays, you have your topic and you describe it and you defend it and you have to defend it. tell us about yours. >> i talked about how the broadcast journalism program, doing things like the morning news and we make features about our school and also things outside of school and how it's a creative outlet that isn't really looked at much. most people think of maybe art like painting or the ba