The Southern California Chapter

of the

American Statistical Association

Announces

PosterComp 2010

The 5th Annual AP Statistics Project Competition

To be Held

Saturday morning May 15, 2010

at

City of Hope National Medical Center

1500 East Duarte Road

Duarte, California

 

 

 

About the Competition

 

Requirements for the competition: All entries must be pre-registered online; no walk-on registrations are allowed. Students must be sponsored by an AP Statistics teacher. It is not an absolute requirement that students be enrolled in an AP stat class but the judging will be based on expected competencies for a student near the end of such a class and the project will be expected to exhibit proper application of data analysis and statistical inference as appropriate. The project must be the work of the team.

 

About the competition: The project competition allows students a chance to show and discuss the results of a study or experiment they have conducted to answer some question with professional statisticians who will judge their work. Students must stay by their poster board to await interviews by the judges assigned to the entry. After you have been interviewed and scored by 3 judges, you may wander around and look at other entries or join a guided tour of City of Hope. However, do not interrupt or observe other entries as they are being judged. Also, note that a judge or two might chat informally with you about your project but not be assigned to score you. Be sure you have been interviewed by 3 assigned judges before you leave your poster board. If you’re not sure when talking with a judge if you’re being scored, simply ask them if this is a judging interview or just an informal chat. Some judges just can’t help discussing an interesting looking topic they run across.

 

About the poster board: The poster board is your main and perhaps only prop. It should show an observer what your project is about, what question(s) you are trying to answer, what data you are working with, and present statistical results using statistical graphics as appropriate. One way to lay out your material on the 3-section poster board is to have the title of your project at the top of the center section above your main results. A side panel could provide details of your data collection and samples of your data if it is too large to display in its entirety. Another side panel could display background information on the subject. The poster board is not the main thing being judged although it will contribute to your overall score.

 

Online Registration: Online registration will open in March 2010; visit http://postercomp.sc-asa.org then.

 

For a Review of the 2009 Competition, including a listing of all winners, links to photo’s follow this link: http://sc-asa.org/postercomp/Review2009.htm

 

If you have more questions please send them to the competition chairman Dr. Rodney Jee at RodneyJee@yahoo.com.