recently in providence, rhode island and met with high school is second prize winners, raymond mccarty, aidan santos, and another from trinity academy for the performing arts. >> was very exciting. this was our first time entering. ofput in a lot of hours editing come a lot of contacting, it was a long journey. we are very excited and happy and look forward to participating against -- again next year. >> it means we look forward to next year. we're coming for the win. >> it is crazy to think it is our first year entering we didn't even think about it, let's enter and see how far we can go. to think they got second place on our first drive close my mind. announcer: to watch all of the winning entries from this year's studentcam contest, go to stude ntcam.org. >> once committee be was simply three giant networks and a government supported service called pbs. a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea, but viewers decide all on their own what was important to them. c-span opened the doors to washington policymaking for all to see. bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond

providence, rhode island done met with high school east second prize winners raymond but kari, raymond santosnd another student from trinity academy for the performing arts. of hours inlot editing, contacting, it was a long journey. so we are very excited and very happy. we look forward to participating again next year. >> it is something we couldn't believe that we are looking forward because next year we are coming for the win, for sure. it's crazy to think it is just our first year entering something. >> we just entered to see how far we could go. and to think we got second place on our first try, it just blows my mind. >> to watch all the winning entries from this year's student cam contest, go to studentcam.org. 150 years ago, may 10, 1869, railroad tycoon leland stanford hammered in a symbolic gold spike linking the central pacific railroad from the west and the union pacific railroad from the east at promontory summit, utah territory. to mark the 150th territory -- 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the stanford historical size -- stanford historical