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Fashion Trends in a Middle School


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Content Inside: The Mystery Behind the Addiction to Cigarettes Supercomputing Challenge Final Report Capshaw Middle School Team 28 Area of Science: health Team Members: Mercedes Downing Emily Durham Nathan Rees Kaegan Schultz Teacher: Ms. Monese Sponsor: Ms. Monese 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary . 3 Introduction.4 Project Proposal.4 Project Description .5 Math Model...5 Research 6 Results/Conclusions 9 StarLogo. 10 Works Cited12 3 Executive Summary: Teenage is the most vulnerable stage among the different stages of human growth and development. It is a time when people are unsure of themselves and look for role models to emulate. Teens want both to conform to different trends in their environment and to be recognized as individuals. This tug of war affects self esteem and increase vulnerability. Teens like to fit in or to become socially accepted. When people are teens they try many things including smoking. In this project we wanted to find out why teens smoke even when they know the harms of cigarette smoking. In order to investigate this behavior we read books and internet articles about smoking. We also interviewed our peers at school about cigarette smoking and why they think teens smoke. Based on this information we built a StarLogo program to model to test different variables that contribute to smoking. The results of our investigation showed that teens smoke because of the need to belong and for the immediate social gain smoking provides. These were major themes influencing teen smoking decisions. We also found out that exposure to cigarettes mattered teens that were exposed to cigarettes either by family members media or friends seemed to try smoking more than those who did not. Most go on to become addicted. We ran trials manipulating the number of times a teen is exposed to cigarettes smokers and the probability that they would try smoking. This model imitates the real- teen environment. As a teen comes in contact with those who smoke ...



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