In the senior year, each student conducts a capstone research project under the mentorship of a professional scientist, mathematician, or engineer.
Junior Year
March/April: Staff works on matching students with mentors
May/June: Student-mentor matches are finalized. Begin to discuss interests and share knowledge and competencies.
Summer: Shadow and receive technical training
Senior Year
August: Review of professional literature summaries and background research skills
September: Submit research proposal, including methods, hypothesis, proposed statistical analysis or display of data, approximate timeline with milestone markers (as applicable)
October - March: Data collection, construction, problem solving, and ongoing literature summaries
April: Data analysis, results, presentations
May: Prepare posters for the SMA Research Symposium (aka Gallery Walk) - usually the second or third Tuesday in May
**From September - May students are working two to three days per week from 11 am - 2 pm on their project.
Resources
Proposal form- Article summary template
Requisition form- Student agreement form
- Parent agreement form
- Mentor agreement form
- Mentor supervisor form
- Mentor agreement form (APG only)
- Vector graphics - use these when ever you are gonig to print the logo (to use, right click and select "Save Target As")
- Dark Blue
- RGB
- R: 17
- G: 82
- B: 126
- RGB
- Yellow
- RGB
- R: 236
- G: 178
- B: 42
- RGB
- Light Blue
- RGB
- R: 92
- G: 116
- B: 153
- RGB
- Creating poster tutorials
- Presentation skills
Mr. Sloan (3:56)- Optimize content - clarity (5:02)
- Optimize content - plots (4:28)
- Relevance (7:26)
- Animations (7:38)
- Contrast (3:54)
- Mr. Davis (10:44)