CHAPTER NEWS
Project Competition Sees
47% Increase in Entries
T
he Southern California Chapter held its fourth annual
Project Competition for AP Statistics Students on
May 30 at the City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte,
California. The competition attracted 47 teams from seven
schools—a 47% increase in entries from last year.
Head judge Jim Bentley of the University of Redlands coor-
dinated the pool of 26 judges, made up of college professors,
graduate students, and statisticians from business and industry.
The judges conducted poster session–style interviews of the
teams, and each team received three interviews. The competi-
tion chair, Rodney Jee of Fair Isaac Corporation, announced
10 winners at the awards luncheon, which immediately fol-
lowed the judging. Winning teams received a $40 cash prize
and T-shirts donated by Minitab.
For the first time, the chapter split the competition from
its pairing with the long-standing Career Day to allow the
Lee Kucera (top) with teachers attending the teachers’ session
two events to develop separately and focus on their respec-
tive core participants. This permitted the competition to hold
its first formal teachers’ session for those teachers who came
with their students. While the students were being inter-
viewed, the teachers benefited from talks given by two chapter
members. Lee Kucera, an AP Statistics teacher at Capistrano
Movie Statistics
Valley High and past judge for the ASA’s Project Competition,
Michael Bina and Brenda Arianpour of Beverly Hills High
gave a demonstration of Texas Instruments’ Nspire calcula-
School, Beverly Hills
tor. Jessica Utts, who is at the University of California,
Irvine and has been formally involved with the AP Statistics
Herbaholics Anonymous
exam from its beginning, showed how Minitab can be used
Ben Manko and Michael Best of Capistrano Valley High
for teaching.
School, Mission Viejo
Minitab and Key Curriculum Press each donat-
ed a copy of their software for door prizes, while Texas
The Cost of the Future
Instruments donated a hardware/software bundle
Yarden Eisenberg and Weihang Zhao of Beverly Hills High
of Nspire.
School, Beverly Hills
Winning Entries from the 2009 AP Statistics Shopping Trendencies
Project Competition
Lahari Surapaneni, Connie Jao, and Nakia Sarad of Troy
Examining the Accuracy of the Windows XP Installation
High School, Fullerton
Time Prediction and How to Improve It
Samuel Carson of Scripps Ranch High School, San Diego
Are Teenagers Now Truly the Technological Generation?
Nicole Tague and Francis Vu of Capistrano Valley High
Does Birth Month Affect Test Scores?
School, Mission Viejo
Yvonne Tat and Carmen Tan of Temple City High School,
Temple City
The Randomness of Roshambo
Jean Guo and Nina Gao of Troy High School, Fullerton
Predicting Hotel Room Rates Based on Occupancy
Cody Aros, Joyce Chuang, Stacy Suh, and Emile Young of
M&Ms
Troy High School, Fullerton
Jenny Fang, Brandon Wong, Amy Zhang, and Johnny Zhou
of Temple City High School, Temple City n
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