Junior Student Research Expo 20062007

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Junior Student Research Expo 2006-2007

• Providing Outstanding Learning Opportunity

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Last Year 2005-2006

• One of the few districts in the nation to provide
  research opportunities for all 6th, 7th and 8th
  graders. 1800 students
• Promotes research as a core value for a students
  academic success
• Research skills lead to real opportunity
• Intel Support District Support

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Participation

• Last Year - more projects submitted and approved
• 75 students district wide were selected to
  participate at the Regional Level
• 8th grader Catherine Mellon took 2nd place at
  Regionals and won a 2nd place award at the State
  Competition
• 2 student projects advance to State Competition

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Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

• Intel ISEF 2006
• 1300 top students from around the world
• 1 RRHS student selected to ISEF 2006
• 15 middle school teachers district wide attended
• Teachers see the value of research projects
• Future possibilities for students

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Its All About the Student

• Students are valued when professionals in the
  community talk with them about their projects
• Students accomplish something very difficult yet
  fun and rewarding
• Students critique their projects, talk about what
  they want to do next year or how to improve their
  project to be more competitive in the future

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Making Expo Sustainable

• Intel and District Support
• Bookkeepers brought into the loop to help manage
  site budget
• JSRE Manual promoting continuity and management
• Increase Recognition for Efforts of All Student
  Participants
• Maintaining High Level of Community Involvement
  and program exposure at Awards Ceremony

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New Staff

• New teachers taking vacant positions and
  contributing at each school
• MVMS Rebecca Clare New Site SRC Coordinator
• RRMH Ashley DeNardis New Site SRC Coordinator
• LMS Dorothy Satriana New Site Coordinator

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JSRE Site Teams

• Site Coordinator
• oversees entire program spending at their
  school
• Site SRC Coordinator
• Sees that all projects submit protocols and meet
  standards for safety
• Judge Coordinator
• Secures adequate number of quality community
  members to review all projects in the time
  allotted.
• Awards Scoring Coordinator
• Ensures that all participants review
  certificates that scoring process identifies top
  competitors and that they receive the specified
  cash awards
• Set up Coordinator
• Schedules the space for the Expo and organizes
  the space so that projects can be easily located.
• Regional/State Coordinator
• Collects entry fees and applications to attend
  Regionals State, chaperones participating
  students

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Site Coordinators

• Eagle Ridge Claudine Rood 3rd year
• Lincoln Dorothy Satriana 1st year
• Mountain View Judy Perez 3rd year
• Rio Rancho Mid-High
• Angelica Lopez 2nd year

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Expo Dates

• RRMH Jan. 17th
• ERMS Jan. 19th
• LMS Jan. 23rd
• MVMS Jan. 25th

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Meeting The Standards 5th 8th

• Science
• Strand I - Scientific Thinking and Practice
• Benchmark I Use scientific methods to develop
  questions, design and conduct experiments using
  and analyze and evaluate results, make
  predictions and COMMUNICATE FINDINGS
• Benchmark II understand the process of
  scientific investigation and how scientific
  inquiry results
• Benchmark III use mathematical ideas, tool,
  and techniques to understand scientific
  knowledge.

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Strand II

• Content of Science
• Students can choose to further their knowledge in
  any content area gaining a greater understanding
  of relevant principles and applications to real
  world situations, analyzing and interpreting
  their data.

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Strand III Science and Society

• Standard I
• Understand how scientific discoveries,
  inventions, practices and knowledge influence,
  and affect individuals and societies.
• Benchmark I Using computers to do research,
  make spread sheets, or find programs to model
  forces etc. gives students direct knowledge of
  how inventions and discoveries have changed our
  lives

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5-8 Mathematics Standards Addressed in Student
Research

• Strand Number and Operations, Standard 1,
  Benchmark 1 Students will understand numbers,
  ways of representing numbers, relationships among
  numbers and number systems
• Performance Standard
• 5-5 Use arithmetic operation and inverse
  relationships to represent and solve real world
  problems
• 61 Calculate multiplication and division
  problems using contextual situations
• 73 Calculate given percentages of quantities and
  use them to solve problems

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Strand 1, Standard 1, Benchmark 2

• Performance Standard
• 6-3 Determine if a problem situation call for an
  exact or approximate answer and perform the
  appropriate computation
• 7-4 Calculate percentage of increase and decrease
  of a quantity
• 8-2 Use a variety of computational methods to
  estimate quantities involving real numbers

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Strand Algebra, Standard Students will understand
algebraic concepts and applications

• Benchmark Understand patterns, relations, and
  functions
• Performances standards
• 6-5 make generalizations based on observed
  patterns and relationships
• 7-6 Solve problems involving rate, average speed,
  distance and time
• 8-2 Use variable to generalize pattern and
  information presented in tables, charts, and
  graphs
• Use mathematical models to represent and
  understand quantitative relationships
• 6-2 Create, explain and use math models such as
  graphs, tables, and charts to interpret and
  analyze data
• 7-3 Select and use and appropriate model for a
  particular situation
• 8-1 Generate different representations to model a
  specific relationship given one representation of
  data e.g. table, graph, equation or verbal
  description

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Strand Measurement, Standard Students will
understand measurement systems and applications

• Benchmark Understand measurable attributes of
  objects and the units, systems and processes of
  measurement
• 6-4 Use standard units of linear measurements to
  the nearest sixteenth of an inch metric
  measurements to the nearest millimeter
• 7-2 Select and use the appropriate size and type
  of unit for a given measurement situation
• Apply appropriate techniques tools and formulas
  to determine measurements
• 6-1 Apply various measurement techniques and
  tools, units and degrees of accuracy to find
  accurate rational number representations for
  length, liquid, weight, perimeter, temp. time

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Strand Data Analysis and Probability, Standard
Students will understand how to formulate
questions, analyze data and determine
probabilities

• Benchmark Formulate questions that can be
  addressed with data and collect, organize, and
  display relevant data to answer them
• Benchmark Select and use appropriate statistical
  methods to analyze data
• Benchmark Develop and evaluate inferences and
  predictions that re based on data

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The Future

• Central New Mexico Regional Science/Engineering
  Research Challenge
• Awards
• Awards totaling over 50,000 are given in the
  form of scholarships, savings bonds, cash awards,
  books, trips medals, and other prizes.
• Some of these awards include
• INGENIOUS RESEARCH AWARD. A cash award for the
  most fundamentally sound project involving
  testing or use of common materials.
• SENIOR DIVISION CATEGORY AWARDS. 1st place - 100
  and medal, 2nd place - 50 and medal, 3rd place -
  25 and medal.
• JUNIOR DIVISION CATEGORY AWARDS. 1st place - 100
  and medal, 2nd place - 50 and medal, 3rd place -
  25 and medal.

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New Mexico State Science and Engineering Fair

• About 200 participants will have the opportunity
  to compete at the New Mexico Institute of Mining
  and Technology, Socorro, NM.
• Senior Division - Up to 8 EXPENSE PAID TRIPS to
  the International Science and Engineering Fair in
  Cleveland, OH, for up to 4 individuals and 2
  teams along with their teacher/sponsors.
• In addition to the fair's awards, numerous
  special awards are given out each year. These
  awards are given by particular scientific
  organizations, professional groups, government
  agencies, educational institutions, individuals,
  and community businesses. In 2003, there were
  over one hundred donors of special awards. The
  following are some of the special awards given
  out last year
• Twenty 500 UNM scholarships
• Two 1,250 Association of Old Crows Scholarships
• 1000 W. Randolph Lovelace II Memorial
  Scholarship
• Three 250 General Electric Elfun Scholarships
• 500 UNM School of Engineering Scholarship
• 300 NM Educational Assistance Foundation
  Scholarship

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Intel ISEF 2007
Albuquerque, New MexicoMay 13 -19, 2007
The Intel International Science and Engineering
Fair 2007 (Intel ISEF) Presented by Agilent
Technologies is the premiere national and
international showcase for 1,500 student
Finalists. The 2007 competition will attract top
high school students representing all 50 U.S.
states and 47 countries, territories, and
regions. They will bring their cutting-edge
research to compete in areas such as
nanotechnology, genetics, fuel efficiency,
engineering, medicine and much more to the
Albuquerque Convention Center.