SoCal ASA PosterComp 2010 at Ciyt of Hope

The Southern California Chapter

of the

American Statistical Association

PosterComp 2010

The 5^th Annual AP Statistics Project Competition

Was Held

Saturday morning May 15, 2010

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.

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