The Scholar Honor’s Program went to the third annual research conference held at UCI on Mar. 1.

The Honors Transfer Council of California presented the conference. The purpose of the conference was for other students to showcase their research to students from two or four-year college’s all over southern California and receive feedback from the audience. The cost to go was $25.

Two groups of students from Cerritos College went to the conference to present their research on psychology, sociology, economics, and health/physical education.

Students who wanted to attend had to write a proposal on what they wanted to demonstrate. All members that attended were undergraduate students.

Most students who went were in the Scholars’ Honors Program and were completing their honor’s project.

Some of the topics covered included child abuse, relationships with self-esteem and aggression, genetics of fruit flies and self-esteem stereotypes of obese women to name a few. The sessions were organized under subjects.

Speeches were about 15 minutes each and had to written out first before it was shared with the audience.

Other presentations which lasted about 75 minutes each were from professor Mark Pursley, L.A. Mission College and HTCC president; Dr. James Waldron, Program Director, Honors Outreach, UCI; Dr. Francisco Lara, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Director, Center for Educational Partnerships, UCI. These speakers spoke in the morning and a video presentation followed before student presentations started.

The whole conference lasted from 8-3:30 p.m. with over 100 projects presented.

Faculty from Cerritos College also attended such as Linda Waldman, Chemistry; Carrie Gleckner, P.E; Dr. John Madden, Philosophy and director of the Scholars’ Honor Program.

Dr. John Madden says about the conference, “This conference looks good on a student’s resume because collages look for publications and oral presentations counts as a publication.”

Students who spoke showed their findings in a classroom of the assigned subject.

After all the students showed their work, an awards assembly followed. Other fun things were raffles and drawings. UCI gave prizes such as $400 to their bookstore.

The conference is held once a year in the springtime and the amount of people that go has grown each time.

Any student is welcome to go as long as they show Dr. John Madden their proposal and what they want to present and then they are on their way.

Students who have good ideas and research to prove it are encouraged to go. Kimberly Duff, professor of psychology said, “It’s great opportunity to show their research and ideas in front of an audience. Students can get great feedback.”