Volunteers Offer Career Advice to AP Statistics Students

For the seventh consecutive year, the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter was invited by AP Statistics teacher Ron Weiss to send volunteer statisticians to give a 50-minute lecture on careers in statistics to AP Statistics students at Menlo Atherton High School this year.

The chapter sent four volunteers, more than any previous year. The volunteers—Debbie McCullough of Genomic Health; Ayona Chaterjee of California State University, East Bay; Norman Matloff of the University of California, Davis; and Chris Barker, a consultant—gave lectures to one or two separate AP Statistics classes.

Also new this year, a chapter volunteer was invited to hear AP student’s presentations of statistics projects at Castilleja, a private school for girls in Palo Alto; Barker attended.