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