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Advisor: Mark Nebzydoski, room C12, ext.
7005
PJAS Goals
The Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, as an Affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is organized with the following objectives:
 To promote greater participation in science and mathematics activities among the youth of Pennsylvania. - To improve the quality of achievement in mathematics and science by encouraging students to participate in research and develop original ideas.
- To develop an understanding of the scientific community through close association with leaders in the sciences.
- To seek the improvement of science clubs activities through the cooperative regional and
state meetings.
- To inculcate among its members true scientific attitudes and humanistic ideals that shall lead to the greater development of service to man.
Student Participation
Student participants in the PJAS program are encouraged to follow the scientific method to select a project, research the background, formulate a hypothesis, develop an experiment to prove or disprove the hypothesis, and to collect and analyze data from their experiment. The students then prepare a written report and give an oral presentation with audio visuals to their sponsor. Group projects are not permitted.
Students who are selected at the school level then are registered to present their project at the regional meeting. The regional meetings are usually in February or early March each year. The students at the regional meeting are divided into units of around ten students who are all in the same area of scientific research, such as chemistry. A panel of two or more judges then evaluates the student's project presentation against set criteria. The students can receive a first, second or third award on their project. Each unit can have more than one first award. Students who receive a first award are then eligible to go to the State Meeting at Penn State University the third weekend in May.
The judges at the regional and state meetings are sponsors, graduate students, college professors, and scientists from industry. PJAS has developed a set of guidelines for judging the student presenters along with a briefing format to assure that the judging is consistent throughout the state.
Downloads
The following files are in Microsoft Word format for PJAS participant
reference.
2006 Sponsor Handbook
Science Rubric Appendix
Math Rubric Appendix
Computer Science Rubric Appendix
Links
DV World-
News: DV Students Blinded with Science
PJAS Region 2 Website
PJAS Website
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