Madeline Yang
Writer '20
You decided to meet up with your friend at the commons after a long day of school. But, when you walk into the commons, you find gigantic poster boards decorated with graphs, tables, and other sciencey-mathy things that you do not even want to try to read. Sadly, your after school plans are ruined, and you missed the bus to go home.
Well, that day just happened to be Monday, March 13th. The sophomores’ and juniors’ International Science Exposition has occurred once again at Great Neck North High School, and you can blame all the students that take Research Project class. Not only were there guest teachers that judged the Juniors’ and Sophomores’ projects, but there were also Senior and Freshman research students judged the projects as well. To be completely fair to the freshman, they were forced into judging since it was a course requirement to go judge the fair.
Anyway, each judge was given four papers, an index card and pins to wear. The judges were instructed to fill out and grade each project on a scale of 0-100 based on a rubric they were given. After all the grading, each judge was instructed to rank each of the projects that they saw on the index card. From these rankings, each person was given an average based on the rankings they received from the judges. These averages could range from one to four, with four being the lowest, and one being the highest.
Students were categorized into two groups, institutional studies and in school studies. Students who did research over the summer were considered as ‘institutional studies’ and were only able to place first or fourth place while students who were categorized as ‘in school studies’ were able to place from 1-4. Amy Shteyman, an institutional studies student, scored a notable 1.0 average, making all her first place alongside with Niva Haber. Carolina Carniero placed second after Amy Shteyman and Niva Haber, and Natasha Dilimani placed third after Carolina. Joshua Rothbaum and Aviya Litman both placed fourth, as Aviya was an institutional studies student.
Many students, however, did not finish their projects or obtain results from their project since this competition was really a “Pre-fair” as Mr. Schorn, a science research seminar teacher, called it. Students that had finished analyzing and obtaining data had a default head start since around one third of the grading rubric was on the results and discussion section. Those who wanted to go to the commons, heads up, this will happen again next year as well, and once again, you’ll be kicked out!
Writer '20
You decided to meet up with your friend at the commons after a long day of school. But, when you walk into the commons, you find gigantic poster boards decorated with graphs, tables, and other sciencey-mathy things that you do not even want to try to read. Sadly, your after school plans are ruined, and you missed the bus to go home.
Well, that day just happened to be Monday, March 13th. The sophomores’ and juniors’ International Science Exposition has occurred once again at Great Neck North High School, and you can blame all the students that take Research Project class. Not only were there guest teachers that judged the Juniors’ and Sophomores’ projects, but there were also Senior and Freshman research students judged the projects as well. To be completely fair to the freshman, they were forced into judging since it was a course requirement to go judge the fair.
Anyway, each judge was given four papers, an index card and pins to wear. The judges were instructed to fill out and grade each project on a scale of 0-100 based on a rubric they were given. After all the grading, each judge was instructed to rank each of the projects that they saw on the index card. From these rankings, each person was given an average based on the rankings they received from the judges. These averages could range from one to four, with four being the lowest, and one being the highest.
Students were categorized into two groups, institutional studies and in school studies. Students who did research over the summer were considered as ‘institutional studies’ and were only able to place first or fourth place while students who were categorized as ‘in school studies’ were able to place from 1-4. Amy Shteyman, an institutional studies student, scored a notable 1.0 average, making all her first place alongside with Niva Haber. Carolina Carniero placed second after Amy Shteyman and Niva Haber, and Natasha Dilimani placed third after Carolina. Joshua Rothbaum and Aviya Litman both placed fourth, as Aviya was an institutional studies student.
Many students, however, did not finish their projects or obtain results from their project since this competition was really a “Pre-fair” as Mr. Schorn, a science research seminar teacher, called it. Students that had finished analyzing and obtaining data had a default head start since around one third of the grading rubric was on the results and discussion section. Those who wanted to go to the commons, heads up, this will happen again next year as well, and once again, you’ll be kicked out!