How did this project develop?
All three on this team went to a science and math middle school, Winterhaven. During middle school, they all seperately did science fair projects that were required for science class each year, and often went to the state level. Once they came into high school, Annelise and Alexander attending the same neighborhood high school while Mariah attended a different, private all-girls school.
Being close friends, they created a graduation video together to be displayed at the middle school graduation cerimony, and worked well together on it. Because of this, Annelise asked if Alexander and Mariah would like to work on a team science fair project for 2010 as freshmen. No one else in there high schools decided to submit a project for the fair. They proceeded to get together almost every weekend once the idea was introduced in the beginning on 2010. They finished just in time for the regional PPSSE fair.
They then proceeded to get best in fair, launching them up past state, and directly towards internationals!
Team Member Biographies
Here is a little background into each team member:
- Annelise Cummings
Annelise is the team leader of this group, organizing and sorting out many aspects to the project, as well as coming up with the pilot idea for Ask P.E.A.T. She creates all the art for the project.
- Mariah Bruns
Mariah is a 15 year old freshmen.The most organized member, she specializes in the medical aspects of the project along with the tenical information involving statistics.
- Alexander Harding
Alexander is a 15 year old freshmen [not related to Graham Harding; it's just a weird coincidence ;) ]. He is the techie of the group, specializing in all of the computer aspects of the project, such as how P.E.A.T. analyzes each clip, and also created the 'screen-in-a-board' idea. Additionally, he manages this website.
Acknowledgments
We would like to take a minute to thank a couple companies & organizations, people, parents and teachers, for all of the wonderful help, mentoring and support they have given us throughout this ongoing project:
Companies:
- Thanks Modagrafics for the sponsored printout of our latest presentation board that you spent so much employee time, materials and shipping cost on! It looks so professional and unique.
- Thank you TRACE Center for your encouraging and ongoing support (knowledge and financially) in our project! We especially look forward to working with you guys in later years our project could lead us to.
- The incredible amount of interest the Epilepsy Foundation Northwest has with us is invaluable! Thank you so much for the meeting you're setting up for us to talk with young people with epileptic conditions, and interest of putting our research onto your own website.
Family:
- Annelise Cummings
- Ronda Royal; For being our adult sponsor, for all the paperwork, suggestions, help, support, and food ;).
- Paul Cummings; For the support, photography, and helping with using a couple programs for our project.
- Mariah Bruns
- Rebecca Bruns; For the support and comments on our research paper.
- Mike Bruns; For the editing and perspective on our research paper, and driving.
- Alex Harding
- Kimberly Harding; For the connections of working for Modagrafics which printed out our board for free!
- Simon Harding; For the incredible amount of suggestions on editing our research paper.
Teachers:
- Mr. Tom Bright; for our first serious introduction into science fairs and pushing Mariah and Annelise into NWSE.
- Mrs. Wendy Archibald; for the contiuation of inspiration in the science field throughout 7th and 8th grade, and pushing all of us to NWSE.
- Mr. James Avison; our beginning onto CPM Mathematics for 7th and 8th grade, a critical aspect to understanding the backend of PEAT.