The Department of Statistics at Grand Valley State University (GVSU), the Regional Math and Science Center at GVSU, and the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics are pleased to announce the 2022 Michigan Statistics Poster Competition for K-12. 

A statistics poster tells the story of a data set through numbers and graphs.  A series of four articles that explain the process used to create a statistics poster and photos of last year’s winning entries are available at the MSPC website at https://www.gvsu.edu/stat/poster.  A sample lesson plan introducing the competition, alignments of statistics posters and the standards, and videos of the winning posters are available as well.  All students in K through 12 residing in Michigan are eligible to submit statistics posters to the competition.

Entries will be judged in four different grade level categories: K-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12. Students may work individually or in teams. For the K-3 category, there is no restriction on the size of the team; it may be as large as the entire class. For the other three categories, the team may have up to four students.

There is no entry fee. All posters must be registered through the competition website https://www.gvsu.edu/stat/poster any time before they are submitted.  There are two options for submitting the posters: either physical or electronic. “Physical” means mailing or dropping off the actual paper poster and “electronic” means uploading a file (either a high-quality picture of a paper poster or a digitally created poster) to the online registration system.  Guidelines for making a digital poster can also be found on the competition website.

The deadline is April 1, 2022 and prize winners will be notified by May 9, 2022.  First, second, and third place prizes in the amounts of $72, $48, and $36, respectively, will be awarded in each of the grade level categories, and winning entrants' schools will receive plaques signifying the honor. Honorable mention certificates will be awarded, as well.  All posters become the property of the Department of Statistics at GVSU.  Winning posters are also sent to the national competition hosted by the American Statistical Association, where they are eligible to win further prizes.

For more information, please contact event organizer Dan Adrian at [email protected].