The Southern California Chapter

of the

American Statistical Association

and

The Department of Statistics at UC/Irvine

Announces

PosterComp 2012

The 7^th Annual AP Statistics Project Competition

To be Held

Saturday morning May 19, 2012

At

The University of California – Irvine

Bren Hall

New Item: What do judges look for in a project? Scroll down to a few lines before the schedule.

Here is the table with Final Entry Numbers, Students on the Team, Title and School. All entries will need to have their Final Entry Number at the top of the center section of their posterboard in 2 inch high fonts. The notation should be the “#” followed by your entry number (such as #17). You may write this number on an index card and affix the card to your posterboard.

Missing Your Title? If that is you please provide your title by replying to the registration receipt and providing your title. Do this by Friday 6pm.

Final Entry Number	LastName1	LastName2	LastName3	LastName4	Title	School
2	Wiener				Cancer	Beverly Hills High School
3	Yosef					Beverly Hills High School
4	Regan	Scotti	Kim	Royston	Statistics through a Student's Eyes	Troy High School
5	Fan	Wang	Cedro	Kang	Does gender affect the person's preference on type of date?	John W. North High School
6	Bai					Beverly Hills High School
7	Ponce	Aguilar	Suniga		2012 NY Jets: Who to Start?	Whitney High School
8	Andrada	Badlani	Chanco		Is Lady Gaga the next Madonna?	Whitney High School
9	Govind	Gandhi			Do You Want Fries with DisOrder?	Whitney High School
10	Song	Hamagami	Kim		Time for Medicine to Take Effect	Troy High School
11	Jekayinfa	Gatewood	Black	Allmon	Views on Abortion	John W. North High School
12	Schlenk	Du	Lee	La	Emotional Interpretation by Gender	John W. North High School
13	Jin	Liu	Chang	Walsh	consumption at cheap store vs rich store	Troy High School
14	Bu	Fan	Quintero	Lai	Relationship Between Cheating and Class Subject	John W. North High School
16	Tierno	Sobh	Saatchi		Social Media vs. Homework for High School Sophomores	Capistrano Valley High School
17	O'Reilly	Collins	VanZanten		AP Statistics	John W. North High School
18	Rodriguez	Chao				John W. North High School
19	Chen	Molina			Are AVID seniors more likely to pursue the profession they thought they would pursue as a freshman and did not change throughout the years as opposed to regular seniors?	John W. North High School
20	Tagaloa	Aames				John W. North High School
21	Kothari	Yoo	Ghamlouch		what is the probability that students in high school had a higher gpa then in college?	John W. North High School
23	Nunez	torres	ardon			John W. North High School
24	Hahn	Guo	Azarrafiy	Ding	Probability	Troy High School
25	Rosenblum	Zhang	Gong	Rosenberg	AP Stats	Troy High School
26	Adeleke	Reed	Trettin		Hand Washing: Youth vs. Professional
27	Nishizu	Hightower	Gonzalaez		Expected Longterm Payouts on Horse Racing Odds	Troy High School
28	Szeto	Dang	Dang	Lung	The Cost of Good Food	Mark Keppel High School
29	Siojo	Burgess				John W. North High School
30	Liu	Cheng	Choi	Kwan	Supermarkets	Mark Keppel High School
31	Kebler	Sledge	Sarad		Promarama	Troy High School
32	Chang	Jung	Zgouridi	Yoon	Fight Club	Troy High School
33	Du	Wang	Ro		What time is it?	Troy High School
34	Lu					Troy High School
35	Oh				Stats	Troy High School
36	Harold	Montezuma			Do lunch specials benefit restaurants?	Poly High School
37	Kim	Agopian	Wilson		The Chipotle Preference	Troy High School

Don’t forget, all students and teachers will get a free lunch and awards will be given out during lunch.

A Preliminary Schedule for May 19 is at the bottom of this webpage.

Parking and Drop-off

Parking at UCI requires a permit. Full day permits cost $10 and are available in the Anteater Parking Structure. Parking rules are aggressively enforced.

Students/buses can be dropped off in lot 12B, then follow the signage to Bren Hall.

Buses will park in lot CT. A bus parking permit is $20 cash.

From either the log 12B drop-off or Anteater there will be signage for “SCASA's AP Statistics Project Competition”.

Here are links to the university's maps.  Bren Hall is building 314 on the map (H8).  Anteater parking structure is notated as APS (H9) Anteater is only about 300 meters from Bren Hall. Note there is another building named Bren Event Center which is NOT where you go.


Driving directions/bus parking:
http://www.campustours.uci.edu/directions.asp

UCI Building Map:
http://www.uci.edu/campusmap/

Interactive Parking Map:

http://www.parking.uci.edu/maps/

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 judges, you may wander around and look at other project posters. 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 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. The number of judging interviews per entry will be announced when the judging begins.

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.

What do judges look for in a project?

The main areas a project is evaluated on include the following: (1) the research question: a project should seek to answer some well posed question under well considered assumptions; (2) the design of the experiment: the design should be appropriate for the research question; (3) gathering and validating data: students should have developed significant understanding of the data they gathered for the project; (4) analysis of the data: students should show understanding of the methodology used and its appropriateness; (5) communication of results: both the poster board and the interviews will be considered in determining how well the students understood their work.

For a Review of the 2011 Competition, including a listing of all winners, links to photo’s follow this link: http://postercomp.sc-asa.org/PosterComp11_summaryFiles/Review2011.htm

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

Tentative Schedule for May 19: Location Bren Hall 2^nd Floor

8:30-9:00am Check-in for all entries and teachers

9:00-9:05 Announcements, instructions

9:05-9:55 Group A Interviews; Group B takes UCI Tour

10:05-10:55 Group B Interviews; Group A takes UCI Tour

11:05-11:30 Lunch

11:15 Announcement of winners

9:15-10:45am Teacher’s Session open to all AP Stat Teachers.

Teachers not involved in the competition please e-mail

Rodney Jee (RodneyJee@yahoo.com) that you will attend.