Lexi Rager, senior Mathematics and Psychology major at Youngstown State University, won beginning of the process within the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference earlier this year in Boston, besting 300 other students from about the country.
Rager won due to her poster depicting her research project titled, “A data driven analysis of counseling services at Youngstown State University,” advised by associate professor of Mathematics Alicia Prieto Langarica. Rager’s research advisor is Alicia Prieto Langarica, associate professor of Mathematics and Statistics at YSU.
More than 400 students submitted research ideas, and approximately 300 presented their findings along at the conference.
Other YSU students presenting were Jordan Zackasee, senior, Chemistry; Hunter Thomas, senior, Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Intervention Specialist; Gianna DeToro, senior, Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Intervention Specialist. Students sharing in idea exchange were Rager and Nick Tancabel, senior, Mathematics. Student moderators were Noor Khalayleh, junior, Psychology, and Sarah Elizabeth Oddidika, junior, Biology. And other YSU attendees were David Gessler, sophomore, Chemical Engineering; Alanis Chew, junior, Business, Economics and Mathematics; and Hannah Crites, senior, Exercise Science and Psychology.
The NCHC conference draws together students, faculty and administrators from across the world to collaborate and inspire new ideas along with into honors education. YSU students were attending the conference since 2008. In the past decade, YSU students have gotten three top awards. Ten YSU students attended this coming year with four presenting during the poster competition, two sharing best practices from the idea exchange and a couple moderating sessions.
Students attending NCHC described the ability as eye opening.
“Walking around other poster sessions, I enjoyed reaching see what else might be presented. Our discipline doesn’t typically impart us with opportunity to research and gives, but NCHC opened that door,” said Hunter Thomas, a senior majoring when people are young Education and Early Childhood Intervention Specialist.
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