Katelynne
Marsan is a Girl Scout that is changing the world right here in the Central
Texas Council. Her great curiosity and enthusiasm for STEM led her to a second
place victory at the ExxonMobile Texas State Science and Engineering Fair. Her
project, “Effects of Biased Verbal Instructions on Student Performance and
Motivation”, used statistical methods Analysis of Covariance and the Pearson
Test of Bivariate Correlations to investigate the change in results when
different instructions were given before a test. Katelynne enlisted the help of
three eighth grade science teachers, two-thirds of the eighth grade class, a
professor, and three doctoral students at the University of Texas to complete
and fully analyze her project.
To participate in the ExxonMobile
Texas State Science and Engineering Fair Katelynne had to compete in several
regional fairs before that. From these regional fairs only three projects
advance from each category. This means that Katelynne’s second place statewide
victory is an enormous accomplishment that many don’t achieve. She knows that
the STEM field holds a lot of promise and is excited for her early start.
Katelynne is a freshman at Dripping
Springs High School where she belongs to troop 2009. She plans to become a
neuropsychologist, a career that is very closely related to her project. She is
plans on earning her Gold Award and is also an amazing candidate for Young
Women of Distinction. To top it all off, she also participates in band and
drill team at school.
Congratulations
from GSCTX on this amazing accomplishment, Katelynne! We can’t wait to see all
the ways in which you’ll change the world!
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