Students Spend Money Shopping in St. Joe
by: RaeAnn Hullman, Alex Lindstrom, and Molly Davies
April 13, 2008
Students in Computer Applications class at Hiawatha High School were asked to survey the student body about a unique topic to work with their database project.
The group of RaeAnn Hullman, Alex Lindstrom, and Molly Davies interviewed 107 fellow students about shopping. Out of the 107 people this group interviewed: 21 were freshmen, 24 were sophomores, 39 were juniors, and 23 were seniors. 70 of these polled were girls and 37 were boys. After the survey was complete, queries were made in a database program and used to relate this topic to topics of other groups in the class such as: your favorite candy color, movies, traits you're attracted to, and favorite athlete.
The questions that students were asked in this study were: what store do they like to shop at the most, what is their style type, what color do they wear the most , and what town do they go to shop. The results found were: American Eagle was the place most people enjoyed shopping at, casual was the popular style type, blue was the color most people wore, and most people travel to St. Joe to do their shopping.
The group created queries in the database program to create unique questions about the topic, and to find out the most popular answers. The questions asked were: where do most guys go to shop, what color do junior girls wear the most, and do most guys have the same style type? It was found that most guys go to St. Joe to shop, junior girls wear blue the most, and most guys have the same style type, which is casual.
Then, queries were made to make unique questions that could relate one study to other group topics. The unique questions were: what is the color worn the most by people who prefer to drink Pepsi, did the girls' favorite skittle color end up being their favorite color worn, and of the students who shop at American Eagle who is their favorite basketball player. The end results show that the girls' favorite skittle color did not end up being their color they like to wear the most, people who drink Pepsi wear blue the most, and the students who shop at American Eagle also liked Ray Allen, Michael Jordan, and Iverson.
After conducting the survey the group found out that students at Hiawatha High have similar interests when it comes to shopping. Overall, most of the students like to wear comfortable clothing. As for this small group, they learned about queries and databases. Most of all they learned about fellow students at Hiawatha High School.
