JSHS Competition
Cashton High School Competes for Scholarships
The Junior Science and Humanities Symposium is a scholarship program for motivated high school students. The goal of JSHS is for students to complete an independent research project on a science or humanity topic of their choice. It should be stressed that these projects are independent of any science class. While guidance and resources will be offered to those who participate, the majority of the project is student-driven. No class time will be given for working on the project. Most students who take projects to present at JSHS work independently throughout the summer and fall to complete their project. At the regional level, JSHS offers several scholarships (up to $2000) to a university of choice for the top 3 winners. For more information, go to the National JSHS website at www.jshs.org
Regionals 2017
On January 6th-7th, 2017, a group of Cashton High School science students attended the annual Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, at Treehaven Learning Center in Tomahawk, WI. Here, students had the opportunity to present a science research project to a group of judges. The two presenters did a fantastic job this year preparing for the competition- writing a large, comprehensive paper on their research project and giving a 12 minute presentation on their results. Emily Swenson presented her research on validating nitrogen management technologies for agricultural corn yields and Autumn Ritter researched crop yields by planting within seedcorn maggot populations. Holly Adams, Lily Adams and Sam Freiberg were participants at the symposium, and hope to present projects next year.
Cashton presenters were very successful this year. Autumn earned 5th place and an all expense paid trip to the national competition in San Diego, CA in April. Emily earned 2nd place and a $1500 scholarship to the university of her choice. This also allows her to compete at the national competition for additional scholarship money. In addition, both competitors received $250 scholarships to UW LaCrosse.
Along with the presentations, Cashton students had the opportunity to experience dormitory style living and meet students from several other schools around the state. On Sunday, students explored the outdoors on snow shoes and skis and learned about signs of winter wildlife and habitats. The north woods setting also gave the students an opportunity to howl for wolves and stargaze with experts. A video of our trip and more information about JSHS can be found at bit.ly/cashtonscience.
This trip is sponsored by UW-La Crosse and a partnership with the United States Army, Navy and Air Force. If you know a student who would be
interested in this opportunity to earn scholarship money, please contact Mrs. Julie Lundeen at extension 219.
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