The San Antonio Chapter hosted Career Day in Statistics on April 17 in collaboration with the department of management science and statistics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the TRIO programs at UTSA. The goal of the career day was to emphasize the importance of quantitative education in everyday life and raise awareness of career opportunities in statistics.
More than 100 high-school students from various local high schools attended the event, which took place at UTSA. Following a short welcome by Vanessa Kenon, project director of the TRIO programs (Upward Bound, McNair, and Educational Talent Search), and Daniel Hollas, senior associate dean of the UTSA College of Business, the students attended lectures, enjoyed lunch, and participated in hands-on statistical activities involving applications of Pearson’s Chi-square goodness-of-fit test and applications of the Poisson distribution.
During the lectures, students were given a broad view of statistical applications in various fields. Speakers included biostatisticians, statisticians, and actuaries. Each career-oriented talk offered a brief overview of real-life, day-to-day applications of statistics.
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