General Judging Points
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Recruit Team Members
Bring Team member list
Community Judges will be added to your team
Paper with what to do when- on clip board for team leaders
Final Number of Projects by category
Please wear name tag at all times while judging
Dress Appropriately
Careful with paperwork
Careful with conversations
Do not ask personal questions
Conflict of Interest
Okay if school/ name is on project
Sign/comment/initial project Hang Tag
For categories with large number of projects- Start from each end of
tables
Participants get better with each interview
Turn in paperwork to coordinator at front office in a timely manner,
especially forms with quick turn-around requirement
General Schedule
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12:30 PM Mandatory Judge Meeting for all
judges
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Move Projects
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Organization for Judging
Projects may be in the wrong category
Preliminary judging of boards and papers
7:00 PM Nominations due for Best Papers
Display team can begin judging for the best
designed board
Moving Projects
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Moving projects -Thursday only
Only team leaders may make the decision to
move projects
Talk to the receiving team leader
Add to project move list at the office front desk
Put out project move form
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Attach to place project was originally located
Designate someone if you can’t be there for the
project move time
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Front office needs to be told who the designee is
Project Hang tags
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Make sure all judges sign
or initial
Constructive comments
only
Black out any negative
comments, regardless of
who made them
Display
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Team can Begin Judging for the best
designed board
General Judging Form
Math & Computer Science
Judging Form
Elementary Form
Junior/Senior Form
Paper Nominations
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From category team
Nominate best 3-5 papers in
each category and division
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Projects may not have a
paper
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Each division for the paper
team to evaluate
Friday morning
Write the project number
and title from board
If no paper is present, paper
cannot be nominated
Participants may bring
paper for interview Friday.
Ask for the paper.
One award from each
division
General Schedule
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8:00am Paper Team Begins
9:00am Oral Team Begins
9:00 am -12:00 Junior Senior Division Interviews
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9:00 am -10:45am Elementary Interviews
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Place Award Decisions
Nominations for Oral Awards
For Biomed, Earth Science, Zoology, Botany, Environmental Science, &
Physics.
Place Award Decisions
Nominations for Oral Awards
Nominations for Most Enthusiastic Speakers
11-12:45 Elementary Interviews
For Behavioral & Social Science, Chemistry, Consumer, Environmental Math &
Comp
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Place Award Decisions
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Nominations for Oral Awards
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Nominations for Most Enthusiastic Speakers
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1:00-2:45 Junior, Senior Team Leader Return for Big Awards
2-2:45 Elementary Team Leaders Return for Big Awards
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All awards due by 3:30pm
Oral Award Nominations
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As a team, each category nominates the best
3-5 speakers in each category
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Next, Oral Awards team will evaluate and
make a decision
After interviewing is complete for the
category, nominations should be turned in to
the front office
Oral award team chooses one project from
each division
Oral Award Form
Most Enthusiastic Speaker
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Nominated by category team
After interviewing is complete for the
category, nominations should be turned in
to the front office
Oral Awards team will then evaluate
Elementary Only
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Two awards
Purpose- Radio interview
Novice Newton Awards
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Encouragement awards- for projects with
good creative projects, not everything is
together for a place award.
Elementary Level only
No more than 2 from each category
Category Team Decision
Middle School Principals Award
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Applies only to Junior Division
Encouragement award
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for good creative projects
not quite a place award
2 from each category?
Category Team Decision
Pioneers of Science
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Encouragement award
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for good creative projects
not quite a place award
Elementary Level only
2 from each category?
Category Team Decision
Grand Awards
Possibilities1st, 2nd, 3rd, Honorable mention(s).
Need to write project number and title
Sign and date the form
Junior / Senior
Do not need to fill all spots (Quality)
Need paperwork in by 12:30 Friday
Elementary
Usually try to fill all spots,
Need paperwork in by 1:30 Friday
Intel International Science &
Engineering Fair Award (ISEF)
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Applies to Senior Division only
2 student & 1 Alternate to go to ISEF
Must be 1st place project
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or 1st and 2nd from the same category
Team Leaders’ Decision
Student Observer to Intel
International Science & Engineering
Fair (ISEF)
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Team Leaders’ Decision
This award should come from the Junior
Division, but could come from the Senior
Division if student is a freshman or
sophomore
Student should have a project that has
won a grand award
Colorado State Science &
Engineering Fair Award (CSEF)
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20 Positions
Must be from Junior/Senior Divisions only
Normally from 1st and Second Places in
category awards
Do not send a 2nd Place over a 1st Place in
the same category
Team Leaders’ Decision
Most Original Project Awards
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1 Senior Division
1 Junior Division
1 Elementary Division
Must be from a project that has won a category
award
Creativity
Team Leaders’ Decision
Best Overall Project
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1 Senior Division
1 Junior Division
1 Elementary Division
Must come from 1st place Projects
Team Leaders’ Decision
Notes
 (judging
forms)—add to presentation
 <Paper with what to do when- on clip
board for team leaders>
 Final Number of Projects By category
 Both before for the team leader meeting
and after