The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Poster Competition and Project Competition. First-place winners received $300, a plaque, a plaque for their school, and grade-appropriate graphing calculators for the students and advisers provided by Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $200 and a plaque; third-place winners received $100 and a plaque; and honorable mentions received plaques.

The poster and project competitions are directed by the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability. The 2015 poster competition leader was Rodney Jee (Discover Financial Services). Daren Starnes (The Lawrenceville School) served as the head project competition leader, with Nathan Kidwell (Dubuque Senior High School) serving as associate project competition leader.

K–12 posters are due every year on April 1. Projects (written reports) for grades 7–12 are due every year on June 1. Visit the competitions web page for information—including previous winners, entry forms, instructional webinars, and the rubrics used for judging the posters and projects.

2015 National Project Competition Winners

Each year, the statistical project competition attracts a variety of submissions in which students from grades 7–12 conduct creative studies. The submission deadline for the project competition is June 1 to enable participation from high-school students who may have been preparing for the AP Statistics exam administered mid-May. This deadline also makes it possible for teachers who might otherwise be busy at the AP Reading to assist ativan no prescription with the competition judging. The statistical project competition was especially useful for these students because it provided them with opportunities to apply all the statistical skills they had acquired throughout the school year to solve real-world problems of interest to them.

Grades 10–12

FIRST PLACE
Sarah Young and Seyvonne Ip
Preserving Bananas: Cling Wrap or Foil?
Dougherty Valley High School
San Ramon, California

SECOND PLACE
Danielle Jacobsen and Jessica Zubizarreta
The Effects of Subliminal Advertising on Subject Behavior
Castilleja School
Palo Alto, California

THIRD PLACE
Capril Mirarchi, Maxwell Howald, and Lillian Nicholas
Reading Comprehension Levels in Hard Copy vs. iPad Format
Christopher Dock Mennonite High School
North Wales, Pennsylvania

HONORABLE MENTION
Nelson Ngouenet and Michelle Lin
Effects of Note-Taking Method on Short-Term Memorization
The Overlake School
Redmond, Washington

Grades 7–9

FIRST PLACE
James Standish
Video Games and Anger Issues
Blake Middle School
Hopkins, Minnesota

SECOND PLACE
Kaitlyn Saldanha
The Relationship Between Sleep Schedule and Eating Habits in 7th-Graders
Blake Middle School
Hopkins, Minnesota

THIRD PLACE
Caroline Cameron
Does Playing a Team Sport Affect Organization?
Blake Middle School
Hopkins, Minnesota

HONORABLE MENTION
Sindhu Ragunathan
Sleep. Are You Getting Enough?
Rocky Run Middle School
Fairfax, Virginia

2015 National Poster Competition Winners

Grades K–3

FIRST PLACE
Jacob Harleton
How Has Baseball Changed?
Pine Ridge Elementary
Grand Rapids, Michigan

SECOND PLACE
Uma Riggins
Bubbles
The Key School
Bowie, Maryland

THIRD PLACE
Corey Tobin
Paper Towels!
Overlook Elementary
Abington, Pennsylvania

Grades 4–6

FIRST PLACE
Ryan Holder
Best Paper Airplane Design
Jefferson Elementary
Pullman, Washington

SECOND PLACE
Chandrima Chatterjee
Accuracy of Temperature Forecast During a Cold Winter
Rachel Carson Elementary School
Gaithersberg, Maryland

THIRD PLACE
Joanna Yi
Consuming Meat
Hyde Park Middle School
Las Vegas, Nevada

HONORABLE MENTION
Olivia Batrus
Will It Bounce?
St. Rose of Lima Elementary
Altoona, Pennsylvania

HONORABLE MENTION
Giovanni Corabi
Stop at the Sign or Get a Fine
Rydal Elementary
Abington, Pennsylvania

Grades 7–9

FIRST PLACE
Gilbert Spencer
Do You Need to Be Tall for Basketball?
Half Hollow Hills High School West
Dix Hills, New York

SECOND PLACE
Zachary James
Which Filters More Oil: Clams vs. Mussels
Edgemont Jr./Sr. High School
Scarsdale, New York

THIRD PLACE
Katrina Bliss
Vinegar Variance
Mount Union Area Senior High
Mount Union, Pennsylvania

HONORABLE MENTION
Cordell Cheng
How Numbers Keep You Safe
Abington Junior High
Rydal, Pennsylvania

Grades 10–12

FIRST PLACE
Victor Chen and Kera Yang
Professor Salary Disparities
Saline High School
Saline, Michigan

SECOND PLACE
Kate Salmon and Ben Croy
Psychoactive Therapy for Mathematical Quandaries
Joplin High School
Joplin, Missouri

THIRD PLACE
Katherine Kim and Catherine Badding
High School Sweethearts
State College Area High School
State College, Pennsylvania

HONORABLE MENTION
Caroline Statler and Saniya Ablatt
Can High-School Students Differentiate Between Name Brand and Off-Brand Food and Drink?
Joplin High School
Joplin, Missouri

Get Involved

For information about how you can start a regional poster competition or mentor students in your area, see the article appearing in the July 2011 issue of Amstat News. You can download a flyer about the ASA poster and project competitions and other K–12 statistics education programs and resources to share with your local schools here. For additional information or questions regarding how to get involved in the poster or project competitions, please contact Rebecca Nichols at rebecca@amstat.org.