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May 2023 updates for Ms. Bensel

Published: May 24, 2023

Ms. Bensel writes:

My EXMASS team won the competition this year and so we are off to the conference in Maryland this summer.  Perhaps there is a chance we will do an oral presentation instead of a poster presentation.  My students were 7th, 8th,10th graders.  I had a very competent 11th grader as a student mentor since it was his second year in the program.  We felt good about our work.  The students, despite their age difference and the fact that it is a high school research program, felt very accomplished and definitely worked as a team.  If the team hadn't been so cohesive it would have been a different experience.  The students are homeschoolers.  Thanks to the parents for their diligence in their children's education.  Parents make a difference.
Here are our poster, abstract, and news release.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MOo6uYim13hsIv8WZVobT9ArSGg8dt8CWqCTjff8QeE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ing2j0E0VRiRNlbMpFMXnT-EEAvbelEa4bTg2nRD-jI/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yoOLanxVRpYq_nFKgMpCA70OLyckuufm-wkJLCpX7HE/edit?usp=sharing

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