Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your topic?

• Skate Shop Management 

2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)

• "If your business has avoided exploring corporate sponsorship and cause marketing, thinking your marketing dollars are better spent on traditional advertising, you're missing valuable opportunities to"
• Bower, Gail S. "Too Small for Corporate Sponsorship? Think Again: How Your Business Benefits, Just like the Big Guys." Gailbower.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2012. <http://www.gailbower.com/pages/article_small.php>.

3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form.)

• If a manager of a skate shop goes to more events, has more knowledge on skateboarding, or college credibility their skate shop will be more profitable.

4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment.  Include the tools you plan on using.

• This experiment will be performed by going to 22 skate shops around LA county and San Bernardino County. I will ask the owner or manager of the shops if they go to events, how much they know about skateboarding, and if they went to college to study business. After I would ask them if I can see their profits and see how much they are gaining.

5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:

• Mathematics & Computer Science

Problem Statement

1) Skateshop Management 
2) Sometimes the customer service is not the greatest and could be very rude, leading in the clients in not wanting to purchase any items. Once I figure out a better solution in customer service and better away to attract customers to purchase items I will tell other local skateshops.
3) Sometimes some shops don't get the best quality items they can get and the boards are really bad. I will find out why the board is really bad and why the skateshop can't get the good quality board. After I will see the best solution on a material of a board.