Tag: Poster Spring 10

Elise Gray

Adolescent Addiction

Over 23 million Americans struggle with addiction every day. But the statistic I’m really looking for is how many of these 23 million are adolescents. Kids every day are faced with obstacles getting in their way of growing up, whether it is a peer forcing them to use because it’s cool or they are faced with a close family member abusing a substance. Either way these adolescents are victims and what we need to look at is how we can help them face their struggles with addiction.

SOC 499, Senior Capstone

Beth Aydelott

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Emily Gray

The Importance of Social Emotional Learning and Counselors in School

School counseling is an important part of learning in schools today. It promotes Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and that is vital to a student’s life. In the schools, the bigwigs feel that SEL is secondary to other learning processes that go on in K-12. The school counselor is one of the first programs to get cut in schools today. These counselors play an important role in these kids’ lives and really have to stress SEL to these children. SEL can improve the classroom quality of a student, help those with aggressive tendencies, as well as be effective in the long run of life for that student. SEL is an important part of schools today. In order to teach that to children we need to have school counselors who can advise this and stress its importance in life skills.

SOC 499, Senior Capstone

Beth Aydelott

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Kayla Hansen, Sierra Schorer-Noll & Amy Stanton

Adding Sugar to Snapdragon Plants

This experiment was designed to see the effects that different kinds of sugars had on the photosynthesis of snapdragon plants. The control plant received water. The experimental plants were given a sugar or sugar substitute mixed into water. The second plant received brown sugar, the third received regular sugar, and the fourth plant received sucralose. We predicted that the sugars would improve plant growth and that the sucralose would inhibit plant growth. Plant growth in order of most to least occurred with the brown sugar sucralose (unexpected), water, and finally the regular sugar.

BIOL 200

Tracy Mullins

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Jeneca Hoidal

NCU women’s Soccer – Are Shooting Specific Drills Resulting in more Goals Scored in a Given Week?

Each Friday, our coach holds a “shooting” practice at Hayward on the U of O campus. I would like to measure our improvement as individuals each week. I am also going to track whether or not our shooting during normal practices is improving to see if there’s a connection between the two.

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Cameron Marshall

Life with Prostate Cancer

Poster will include information about what prostate cancer is. It will talk about the causes and treatments. It will discuss what happens physiologically to the body when prostate cancer is present. It will also address how Christian attitudes are toward diseases and the importance of family support.

BIOL 312

Tracy Mullins

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Derek Miller

Langston Hughes: The Moments He Captured

My presentation (poster) will be looking into Langston Hughes’ style of writing as well as uncovering hidden themes throughout his poetry. My poster will consist of Hughes’ works (poetry) as well as highlighted pieces of his poetry that support my theme. A collection of his works will also be on hand.

ENG 499, Senior Capstone

Beth Aydelott

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Crystal Rutherford

The American Genocide

It’s a survey of whether students from the U of O, NCU or people from the community have heard of the Armenian Genocide, if they think it should be called that, and if they think that the American government should be getting involved.

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Joshua Samples

Shareholder’s Final Debrief

This presentation will include a CapSim business owner final debrief. The debrief will include a mission statement, summary of strategy, marketing strategy, my competitors, a balanced scorecard, and my proposed changes to the company.

BUS 499, Senior Capstone

Steve Andersen

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Charolene Somatis

Applying Statistics: The Relationship Between Hours Spent Studying and Test Scores

The examination of the results of a survey taken from a class here at NCU. Survey includes questions on hours spent studying for a test and their test scores, plus demographics. The presentation includes statistical information that shows the relationship of hours studying and test scores and their interdependence if any. The results of the survey are compared with the results of similar surveys done elsewhere.

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Riley Swanson, Lindsey Young & Blair Wilkinson

Lactic Acid Fermentation

The focus of this experiment is to investigate the rate at which different sugar solutions will digest and turn acidic the quickest when introduced to the bacterium. The four sugar solutions used consist of glucose, sucrose, lactose, and maltose, along with a positive and negative control group. Within each sugar solution is bacteria (yogurt), base, pH indicator, and KOH. After each solution is made they are placed in an incubator for 48 hours to ferment. The final result of this experiment showed that sucrose was the most active sugar compared to glucose, lactose, or maltose. The negative and positive controls changed as they should have.

BIOL 200

Tracy Mullins

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Ryan Thamm

Insomnia

Insomnia is defined as having difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep. Sleep deprivation is a huge problem throughout America because without sleep the body doesn’t function as well as it could. Approximately 60 million adults in the United States have this condition. There are three kinds of insomnia: transient, acute, and chronic. Also, there are different patterns of insomnia. Some causes can be from the diet the person is eating, a hormone shift in their body, mental disorders, or some drugs. There are some treatments available to treat insomnia. It is a growing issue in the United States because of how busy our society is and when people can’t sleep they lose performance the next day.

BIOL 312

Tracy Mullins

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Ryan Thamm & Brittney Yip

Effects of Fluid Supplementation on Plant Growth

The goal was to study the growth of plants using different drinks (vitamin enriched water, black coffee, and a water protein supplement). We had a positive control and negative control group and three other groups. We did different tests, one that lasted one week and another that lasted two weeks. Both of the control groups died, and out of the three other groups we had, two outlasted the control groups. They were coffee and vitamin water.

BIOL 200

Tracy Mullins

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Michael Van Loon

Effective Methods of Teaching Mathematics

Mathematics is widely known as one of the most difficult subjects to learn. Imagine teaching it! I am a math major and have been through many classes in my education career. Through my own experiences and through that of many resources I have developed a presentation/paper and poster to help you understand how effective, successful, and happy math instructors teach, guide, and help their students through the highest levels of achievement.

MATH 499, Senior Capstone

Connie Wilmarth

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Chris Wilgus

Shareholder’s Final Debrief

This presentation will include a CapSim business owner final debrief. The debrief will include a mission statement, summary of strategy, marketing strategy, my competitors, a balanced scorecard, and my proposed changes to the company.

BUS 499, Senior Capstone

Steve Andersen

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM