Every year the AP Statistics class has a “Stats Carnival.” It is a project where students can create their own scenarios and collect data from other students.

The AP Stats Carnival is an event that allows students to be very creative. There was a very wide variety of different experiments going on. They consisted of experiments like differences between Sprite or Sierra Mist or testing name brand versus off brand foods. The Knight Errant asked stats fair participants about their opinions on the carnival. “It’s super fun and it’s not entirely math related. We also can make up whatever experiment we want so it’s fun because we are choosing what we want to do and what we are interested in,” senior Maggie Amaris said.

The carnival lasts two days as people from different classes come in and become the test subjects for the different experiments and stations. When doing these experiments students are saying a lot of the results are unexpected. For example, senior Mitchell Dokman had something to say about the unexpected results of his experiment. “So my group did a blind test on which cereal was better between Fruity Pebbles and Fruity Dino Bites. We all as a group decided that we would hypothesize that more people would like Fruity Pebbles since it’s more expensive and more popular. That was the opposite result and way more people liked the Dino Bites better. We were all really surprised but that’s what makes it fun: the suspense,” Dokman said.

There was a fan favorite station that always had people lining up to test it out: the push up station. The experiment was to see which types of push-ups were harder: regular or wide. The station was run by Ryan Sever, Lucia Ament, and Maggie Amaris. Sever came up with the idea himself. “I personally came up with the idea because we were in class debating about how correct form push-ups are super easy and the wide stance was harder. That just didn’t make any sense to me at all so I was like, why don’t we just do an experiment on this for the stats fair. My group members agreed they thought it’d be a good idea so that’s how I came up with it and people seem to love it,” Sever said.

All in all the carnival is a great event and is recommended by students to participate in it. So for the younger grades, remember to pop in the stats class around this time next year to have some fun!