The Orange County/Long Beach Chapter of the ASA
Announces
High School AP Statistics Poster Competition
To be held on Saturday June 1, 2013
In Donald Bren Hall
At the University of California – Irvine
Please Note: Our Registration Deadline is Friday, May 24
Here is the link to the Online registration which is still OPEN:
http://sc-asa.org/postercomp/registration_postercomp2013.htm
Each team needs to select a leader who will register the whole team. Note that an individual entry registers as a team of 1. Please have your school address, team members' e-mail addresses, project title, and teacher's name and e-mail address handy when you register.
Schedule of the Day
Arrival:
All attendees should report to the 2nd floor of Donald Bren Hall between 8:30 and 9:00am on Saturday, June 1st. Bren Hall is adjacent to the University Club, and is Building 314 on the Campus Map. View the map by clicking here.
Parking:
Individual cars should park in the Anteater Parking Structure at the corner of East Peltason Drive and Anteater Drive. A daily permit may be purchased at the entrance for $10.00. Walking directions to Bren Hall will be available there.
Buses should drop off passengers in Lot 12B. Walking directions from Lot 12B to Bren Hall will be available there. Buses should then proceed to lot CT. If the bus has an exempt permit it may park in Lot CT for free. Otherwise a permit may be purchased at the machine in the lot for $20.00.
Location:
All events are in Donald Bren Hall.
Rooms numbered 2xxx are on the 2nd floor, 3xxx are on the 3rd floor, and Room 6011 (lunch) is on the 6th floor.
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Time
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Activity
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Location |
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8:30 – 9:00
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Check in for all entries and teachers
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Lobby outside room 2011 |
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8:30 - 9:00
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Group A poster teams set up posters |
Room 2011 |
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8:30 - 9:00
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Group B poster teams set up posters |
Room 2209 |
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8:30 - 9:10
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Teachers and Judges meet for welcome, announcements, and instructions |
Room 3011 |
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9:00 – 9:10
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All Students meet forWelcome, Announcements & Instructions
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Room 2011 |
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9:10 - 11:00
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Teacher information session: Teachers view posters of group not being judged |
Room 3011 - then Room 2209 |
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9:10 – 10:00
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Group A Interviews with Judges
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Room 2011 |
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9:10 – 10:00
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Group B UCI Tour
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First floor staging area for tour |
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10:00 - 10:10
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BREAK |
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10:10 – 11:00
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Group B Interviews with Judges
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Room 2209 |
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10:10 – 11:00
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Group A UCI Tour
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First floor staging area for tour |
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11:00 – 11:45
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LUNCH & Announcement of Winners
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Room 6011 and patio outside Room 6011 |
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 further information contact either of the UC-Irvine OC/LB PosterComp Co-Chairs: Lee Kucera at lekucera@att.net or Jessica Utts at jutts@uci.edu