Research project

This week in class my group has been working on a research project. Our project was researching the difference between the amount of girls and boys involvement in sports at Stevenson. I originally went into the project with the thought that the number of boys in sports would be way higher than the amount of girls. Surprisingly, after going to the athletic department and getting some numbers, the amount of girls and the amount of boys that are involved in sports at Stevenson was pretty much the same. Although that research caught me off guard, I was even more surprised at the total number of kids that are involved in sports at Stevenson. The number was relatively low at about 1200 kids, boys and girls, participating in sports at SHS. I would think that for having such a large school that more kids would be involved. Of course we did not calculate if students are participating in sports outside of school and were not able to get information on the amount of students participating in clubs. But this research does makes me wonder if there is a reason why this number is so low. Nevertheless, our research was only to determine the difference in participation between boys and girls in sports and the research we found was different than what we previously predicted.