Name: Ayman M.

Mangangarig Section: 12 – STEM A Date: November 13, 2020

Research topic: How STEM Students can affect their academic performance in sports clinic?

Research title: The Correlation Between Sports Clinic Participation and Academic Performance

Background of the Study

Sport and physical activity positively impact academic performance as it encourages the

enhancement of brain function and cognition. Playing sports can make you stronger and

healthier (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). Most of the people nowadays

are not actively engaged to sports. Students are more engaged to playing gadgets than playing

sports. People that are not active in sports often has the greater risk of having diseases (BBC

WORD Services, 2012).

Sports festival is an event in Cagayan de Oro National High School Senior High School

that let students play any sports they want. This event will bring different experiences to

students that play competitive sports like basketball, volleyball, chess, table tennis, sepak

takraw, badminton, larong-lahi, and dance revolution.

The researchers observed that most of the students playing sport are more focused to

sports than their studies but most students think that sports are district that shows us to

academic goals and responsibilities (Guillermo, 2015). The researchers aim to inquire the

students experience on sports clinic and if they will be able to balance their physical and mental

abilities.