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[Home](https://www.videoscribe.co/)› 2. [Blog](https://blog.videoscribe.co)› 3. [Research & Examples](https://blog.videoscribe.co/tag/research-examples)› 4. How to influence President Obama (when you're only 10) # How to influence President Obama (when you're only 10) Posted by [Rosie Winter](https://blog.videoscribe.co/author/rosie-winter) on April 16, 2013 ![Rosie Winter](https://blog.videoscribe.co/hubfs/rosie.png) **How do you get the attention of the President of the United States of America when you're just an ordinary citizen?** And you're only in the fifth grade? ## How school children used video to influence the President When federal budget cuts threatened their tour of the White House, school children in Loxahatchee, Florida, had an idea. To get a message through to President Obama, they made him a video. More specifically, they made a scribe video with VideoScribe. With a little help from their teachers, the fifth-graders filmed their pleas to reinstate the tour. They topped and tailed the footage with whiteboard animation. > "Dear President Obama. We know that you're real busy. But if you could take two minutes to watch our video, we would greatly appreciate it…" In our opinion these children deserve to have their tour! Credit to the teachers at Frontier Elementary for helping their students to be creative in their communication. We hope that the message gets through. ## Tips and tutorials on making persuasive videos As this story demonstrates, video is a very powerful tool for engaging audiences. Video creation is extremely useful in many different areas, including education and visual marketing. In our blogs we've been pinning down the key techniques which make video creation successful. Want to learn how to make the most persuasive, memorable and powerful videos? We've got a guide that makes it easy. 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