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GPS Poster Day Winners

Congratulations to the 2021 Great Problems Seminars Poster Day winners! This Fall, more than 200 students participated in the intense, two-term program. Their work was highlighted at poster day on December 7, 2021. Thank you to faculty, staff, and judges who helped our first year students complete this course and helped make the poster day event a success!

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 This Fall also marks the 15th anniversary of the Great Problems Seminar

 

 

GPS Poster Day Winners

Fall 2021

   

Poster #

Title

   

Shelter the World

5

Post Disaster Mindoro, Philippines

Alexse LaGuerre, Keanna Bruce, Andrew Mesa, Ligia Portugal

   

Extinctions: Who Will Survive?

16

Plastic is forever. Dolphins are not:  What causes microplastics to be ingested by bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay and Tampa Bay, Florida?

Marissa Burati, Juliana Fox, Sona Hansila, Nicolas Valentino

   

Climate Change

22

Don't Let Solar Go To Waste

Mackenzie Appleyard, Vera Close, Sofia Eckerson, Madison Quattlander

28

Coastal Catastrophe: Rising Sea Level and Effects on Coastal Regions

Benjamin Brooks, Jordan Heffernan, Nicholas Ishigami, Megan Jordan

   

Recover, Reuse, Recycle

39

Plastic Waste

Allen Cheung, Jameson Courtney, Andrew Cunningham, Marcel Guzik

   

Seeking Sustainability

41

C.L.A.W.: Can Lobstering Annihilate Waste

Lucy Bosch, Andrew Kovacs, Seamus O'Connor, Jonah Potter, Nicholas Sirota

44

G.O.M.P.E.I: Girls On a Mission Preventing Education Inequality

Nylah Andrews, Ashleigh Perez, Ava Labik, Meghan Doane

 

   
   

People's Choice

Session 1

 

18

Wildfires and Specialists: A Deadly Connection

Class: Extinctions: Who Will Survive?

Alyson Crawford, Sean Maguire, Lindsay Masamery, Mickey Mikitarian, Jack Pszeniczny

Session 2

 

44

G.O.M.P.E.I: Girls On a Mission Preventing Education Inequality

Class: Seeking Sustainability

Nylah Andrews, Ashleigh Perez, Ava Labik, Meghan Doane