Tuesday 20 May
Danielle Baker – 4 to 5 p.m.
Topic: Education
Focus: My research focuses on the teacher’s ability to invite student motivation to learn using simple techniques to grab students’ attention: using a variety of presentation techniques, personal clothing choice, behavior management styles, student self-discipline. Interviewing students from 3 high schools, one junior high and one elementary school, I asked questions regarding favorite teachers and why, grades in these classes, and specific classes. Each teacher was interviewed and reported on student behavior, clothing style, presentation skills, in-class behavior management, and how well they know their students on a personal level.
Morgan Wainio – 5 to 6 p.m.
Topic: Obese youth in America and how exercise can make a difference.
Focus: My senior paper is about comparing surgical weight loss to the old fashion way of working out in the gym. I’ve worked with many youth and tried everything I could to encourage them to work out and have a fun time. For my senior presentation I’m going to make a workout book for everyone to have for a good reference. The main point of my paper is to tell America that our youth is getting fatter when its harder to take off.
Miriam Hershberg – 6 to 7 p.m.
Topic: Holocaust testimonies and their use in genocide education.
Focus: The main thing my paper talks about is the importance of documenting the past to educate youth today and prevent genocide in the future. The goal of my paper is to promote an understanding of the Holocaust and what we can do to stop genocide like it. Educating the youth with personal accounts and artifacts, movie and books on the Holocaust is a positive way to promote tolerance and end violence around the world.
Matt Baran-Mickle – 7 to 8 p.m.
Topic: Physical Education in the United States.
Focus: The link between physical education and obesity: how they are connected and how we can better use physical education to combat obesity. Schools are an under-utilized tool in the fight against obesity, and we need to take advantage of captive audiences in classrooms in order to avoid a health-care crises. Not only is there not enough mandatory P.E. required by almost all states, but the time that is used for P.E. is poorly utilized and current P.E. models are generally ineffective.
Wednesday 21 May
Spencer Coplan – 5 to 6 p.m.
Topic: The Western World’s Influence on Developing Countries Through Imports and Exports of Food
Dorian Goettler – 6 to 7 p.m.
Topic: Diamonds – The Black Stone
Focus: Diamonds are made from one of the most common elements on this world and the cause of so much strife. Starting out looking no more elegant than any other crystalline structure, with the one exception of its hardness, the value of a diamond is mostly that of an artificial inflation in the cut of the stone. It is this value that has lead fortune seekers to the very ends of the earth looking for signs; this value leading to the funding of wars; this value leading to the economic support of whole nations, which makes western obsession with no more than a carbon crystal that has been cut, a self defeating fantasy.
Peter Crabtree – 7 to 8 p.m.
Topic: Social Entrepreneurship. "A New Corporate Paradigm"
Focus: Creating positive social change now has a new pathway: social entrepreneurs. Using lessons learned from free market enterprise systems, we can create sustainable social enterprise ventures that cause lasting positive change.
Thursday 22 May
Lisa Jackson-Nickel – 5 to 6 p.m.
Topic: The bored Adolescent in a Substance Abuse world.
Focus: The main point of my paper is explaining why teens abuse, how they get caught up in it, the physical affects of substances, the prevention programs and the point of view of some teens that think there is nothing wrong with drug use. It’s basically the story of teen substance use.
Priscilla Mullins – 6 to 7 p.m.
Topic: Controversies in the treatment of autism: Controversies within Controversies
Focus: My senior project is mostly about the treatment of autism. I have done a lot of research on the cause of autism. But even the cause is still unknown. It’s still a very young subject with a lot of controversy surrounding it. Because autism is not fully understood the treatments are just as unknown as well.
Sidney Mattocks – 7 to 8 p.m.
Topic: Comparative Planetology
Focus: Some of the harshest environments on earth, volcanoes, deep-sea and ice-caps, mimic uncharted areas of our closest celestial neighbors. My topic is the scientific field of comparative planetology which started around the 1970s with a professor Victor Baker. His research in planetary geology began the theory that our planet’s geology may hold the answers to unidentifiable patterns on the surfaces of our neighbors.
Tuesday 27 May
Zachary Peterson – 5 to 6 p.m.
Topic: Salmon Farming in the Pacific Northwest a threat to wild salmon
Focus: My topic is on salmon farming and how salmon farming is an environmental disaster and also a threat to the survival of wild salmon populations. My paper focuses on the environmental impact of the off shore fish pens used in salmon farms and how overfeeding, disease, waste and parasites from the pens endanger wild salmon.
Madeline Reeves – 6 to 7 p.m.
Topic: Man vs. Wild: The Relationship Between Humans and Raccoons in Kitsap County
Focus: My topic looks at the interactions between humans and raccoons within the Pacific Northwest. Specifically I am presenting the flaws within the current relationship between humans and raccoons and how the relationship could be altered to work towards positive coexistence. I also presenting the idea or 'thinking globally, acting locally' as a model for sparking global change, and using raccoons as an example of this. The idea is that be altering the human/raccoon relationship within Kitsap County we could create a model for bettering human/animal relationships worldwide.
Chris Baran-Mickle – 7 to 8 p.m.
Topic: Water Rights and Politics in the Southwest: The Colorado River Basin
Focus: My paper is about the state of water politics. I start with the first exploration of the Southwest's rivers by John Wesley Powell, and his warning to the US government that the area would not be suitable for mass settlement. From that statement comes my thesis, in essence: JWP was right, the southwest is not fit for supporting a large population, and although it didn't happen immediately, the area's water supply is running out and it's effects are being felt.
Wednesday 28 May
Lila Burns – 5 to 6 p.m.
Topic: Lithuanian National Identity: Oppressive Past, Resilient Nature, Hopeful Future
Focus: Even after several centuries of cultural and political carnage, Lithuania’s resilient nature has allowed them to persevere through it all. Lithuania has always been a sort of European anomaly and their pride allowed them to fight for their culture against the USSR, the Nazis, and most of their geographical neighbors. They are currently independent, but are still recovering from half a century of Soviet oppression. Still, they highly value their heritage and their identity, and are working to sustain their European and world presence.
Stephanie Guy – 6 to 7 p.m.
Topic: Civil Liberties vs. National Security: Comparing the McCarthy era to the Post-9/11 era.
Focus: To compare the two eras, I am mostly focusing on the balance between civil liberties and national security in times of crisis. I talk about how these two eras overstepped the bounds of acceptable and constitutional government conduct, and refer to four Amendments from the Bill of Rights (I, IV, V, and VI) that these administrations disregarded in favor of national security.
Alex van Gelder – 7 to 8 p.m.
Topic: The War on Democracy
Focus: My senor project is on the US’s pattern of overthrowing democratically elected foreign governments and replacing them with dictators. I focus on Iran, Guatemala, and Chile.
Thursday 29 May
Rory Cauthers-Knox – 5 to 6 p.m.
Topic: Uncovering the Ghosts of Conflict: Forensic Anthropology in the Mass Graves of Post-Genocidal Countries
Focus: I discuss the usefulness of forensic anthropology (the study of human skeletons primarily for the purpose of identification) in situations of genocide. I use Guatemala and the former Yugoslavia as examples and I also talk about future forensic work in Sudan. Thanks so much for all your effort in putting this together.
Sarah Browning – 6 to 7 p.m.
Topic: Education and Art
Focus: My senior project is on the importance of art education in our society. I talk about the importance of art in our schools, especially in high school and how it help us in every aspect in our future lives. I also have devised my own education plan to incorporate art into our schools.
Michael Barker – 7 to 8 p.m.
Topic: Adolescent Psychology: Examining Early Parental Loss
Focus: My project is looking at the effects of early parental loss on the adolescent mind and it’s effects on the adolescent later on in life. I will explain how the loss of a parent on the already turbulent life of an adolescent can be either detrimental or beneficial. I will also cover why the adolescent brain is susceptible to increased trauma.
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