The Southern California Chapter

of the

American Statistical Association

PosterComp 2010

The 5th Annual AP Statistics Project Competition

Was Held

Saturday morning May 15, 2010

at

City of Hope National Medical Center

1500 East Duarte Road

Duarte, California

 

NEW as of May 18, 2010: High Resolution Photos Added

(see listing of links at the end)

 

 

Panorama of 73 Competition Poster Boards Filling Cooper Auditorium at City of Hope

 

The Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association held its fifth annual project competition for high school AP Statistics students on May 15 at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte. A new record of 73 teams (from 7 schools) brought their poster boards early that Saturday morning to use as supporting material for questions on their project. Each team of one to four students was interviewed separately by three judges. Judging and scoring was directed by head judge Jim Bentley (University of Redlands) who recruited 35 professors, graduate students, and statisticians from industry to interview the students. Interviews were scheduled to occur in two sessions and students not in an interview session were taken on a tour of the medical campus.

 

Table of 10 Winning Entries at PosterComp 2010

Title

School

S_1LastName

S_1FirstName

S_2LastName

S_2FirstName

S_3LastName

S_3FirstName

S_4LastName

S_4FirstName

Testing Illness

Troy H.S.

Patel

Anisha

Chakka

Srita

Hall

Ashley

Yun

Sherlynn

Food Preference Versus Race

Mark Keppel H.S.

Du

Brad

Quan

Kevin

 

 

 

 

Does classical music improve memory?

Temple City H.S.

You

Roger

Tang

Brandon

 

 

 

 

Relationship Between Number Of College Applications and College Acceptances

Troy H.S.

Shao

Duke

Tang

Carol

Tanna

Ruchika

 

 

Shameless Statistics

Capistrano Valley H.S.

Kulik

Haley

Trippy

Samantha

Sawicky

Hannah

Green

Alison

The Ganster, The Nerd, The Jock: A social study

Capistrano Valley H.S.

Lee

Jason

Burakoff

Nick

Yang

Byran

Jiang

Justin

Examining the Relationship between Airline Ticket Prices and Distance Traveled

Troy H.S.

Nguyen

Quan

Forsuelo

Michael

Ramirez

Alex

 

 

Does music affect GPAs?

Santa Ana H.S.

Moss

Rebecca

Navarrete

Nancy

O'Campo

Peter

Reynaga

Richard

Predict Energy Usage, Save Money

John W. North H.S.

Lin

Samuel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fast Food Consumption

Beverly Hills H.S.

Pham

Trudy

Bhang

Dante

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winners of PosterComp 2010 with their Teachers

 

Concurrent with the competition the Chapter also held a tutorial session for those teachers who accompanied their students. After a welcome by competition chairman Rodney Jee (FICO), Chapter President Robert Gould (UCLA) presented a review of the graphics used on the poster boards. Then Robert Newcomb (UCI) presented a demo of the JMP software from SAS and Lee Kucera (Capistrano Valley High School) gave a lesson on uses of the new TI NSpire calculator for teaching statistics. At the end of the session, door prizes and giveaways from SAS JMP, Minitab, and TI were presented to the seven teachers.

 

Teachers of PosterComp 2010

 

The usual awards luncheon was preceded this time by a presentation by Don Bentley (Prof. Emeritus Pomona College) entitled “The Compleat Statistician” where sound statistical practice was related to a well completed competition project. Following a traditional lunch of lasagna and salad, the competition declared 10 entries as winners and presented them with a small cash prize and T-shirts donated by Minitab.

 

The competition has been the Chapter’s primary K-12 outreach in the past few years. Its success has been possible due to the support of a small but growing number of enthusiastic, dedicated AP Statistics teachers in the region and the efforts of the competition committee. The City of Hope has also played a crucial co-sponsoring role in providing an outstanding venue and facilities with coordination through City of Hope liaison and Chapter President-Elect Andrew Dagis (City of Hope).  With the competition beginning to establish wider participation in the region excited chapter members have begun discussions of ways to improve the event and find better ways to promote the profession of statistics to these young students.

 

 

 

Table of Judges of PosterComp 2010

Number

Name

Affiliation

1

Ahmadian, Shaun

UCLA, CS

2

Arnold, Barry

UCR

3

Barro, Frank

Cal Poly Pomona

4

Bauer, Madeline

Keck, USC

5

Bresee, Catherine

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

6

Cetinkaya, Mine

UCLA Grad Student

7

Chance, Beth

Cal Poly SLO

8

Chen, Xiao

UCLA, Stat Consulting

9

Cornez, Rick

Redlands

10

Dagis, Andy

City of Hope

11

Davis, Gretchen

UCLA Grad Student

12

Diez, David

UCLA Grad Student

13

Dyck, Harold

CSUSB

14

Sorenson, Kekona

UCLA Grad Student

15

Falatoonzadeh, Hamid

Redlands

16

Ghosh, Indranil

UCR Grad Student

17

Gins, John

Fair Isac

18

Le, Rebecca

UCR Grad Student

19

Jay, Mike

MSC

20

Liu, Alex

Research Methods

21

Miao, Wendy

Santa Monica College

22

Mun, Jungwon Chris

Cal Poly Pomona

23

Rennie, Mike

Reed Institute

24

Resser, Ken

consultant

25

Rother, Carla

Medtronic

26

Roy, Soma

Cal Poly SLO

27

Smith, Jill

UCR

28

Smith, Wayne

CSU Northridge

29

Sugana, Adam

UCLA

30

Webb, Steve

consultant

31

Wilson, Jason

Biola

32

Bentley, Don

Pomona

33

Bentley, Jill

Los Osos

34

Goodman, Arnold

UCI

35

Kramer, Jason

UCI Grad Student

36

Stehli, Annamarie

UCI

37

Wetzel, Bruce

SoCal Gas

Head Judge

Bentley, Jim

Redlands

 

 

Thank you, all participants: Students, Teachers, Judges, and Others who helped.

Rodney Jee, PosterComp Chairman

 

 

Listing of High Resolution JPEG files of the event.

Notes: A filename like N99.JPG or N99something.JPG would mean it is a photo of Entry Number 99 or of Entry Number 99 doing something.

Group pictures by School are named after the school (unfortunately no Mark Keppel photo).

Most other filenames are self explanatory. Hope you find a good pic of you and your friends!

 

 

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