Karry Roberts, ASA Detroit Chapter Secretary
The Detroit and Ann Arbor chapters recognized students and their teachers at two schools to celebrate their Michigan Statistics Poster Competition awards.
Rob Kushler, David Corliss, and Karry Roberts of the Detroit Chapter held a recognition event in Violet Fiddes’ classroom at Macomb Academy of Arts & Sciences in Armada, Michigan. Fiddes, a mathematics and computer science teacher, encourages her students to enter the competition with projects that are applications of classroom learning. This year, her students won all three places in the Grades 7–9 category:
- First Place: Annaliese Germundson and Tessa Goldun, “Which Gender Feels Safer When Walking Alone?”
- Second Place: Malissa Hiller and Sabrina Grove, “Do High-School Students Spend Their Free Time Wisely?”
- Third Place: Anastasia Misson and Kaitlyn Goretski, “Favorite Dogs”
Kushler and Roberts, along with ASA Council of Chapters Representative to the Board of Directors Anamaria Kazanis, also held an awards ceremony in June (Jinx) Cooke’s classroom at Uriah Lawton Elementary in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Fourth-grader Paavani Tewari won awards for the second year in a row. She won first place in both the Michigan Statistical Poster Competition and the ASA Data Visualization Poster Competition in the Grades 4–6 category with her poster, “How Does My Body Temperature Vary?”
Paavani presented her extracurricular project, and Cooke emphasized how rewarding external activities can be.
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