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| + | To make it easier for judges to find relevant documentation on your team wiki, we have created Standard URL Pages in your wiki template for the medal criteria and some of the special prizes. If your team wants to be evaluated for a medal and/or special prize, you must document your work related to the medal criteria and/or special prize on these Standard URL Pages. You can learn more about this on our Standard URLs page.</p> | ||
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Revision as of 15:27, 12 January 2021
Introduction to Judging
Judging in iGEM is an essential component to the iGEM Competition. During the judging process, teams earn medals, prizes, and awards that help to acknowledge and celebrate their months of hard work. Judges are entrusted with evaluating the team projects. Through their work, judges help the iGEM community celebrate the teams’ accomplishments during the Giant Jamboree.
iGEM teams can compete for medals, prizes, and awards based on the work the team has carried out throughout the iGEM season. During the Giant Jamboree, each team’s work is evaluated by a panel of judges and teams are awarded medals, prizes, and/or awards based on that evaluation.
When judges evaluate your team, they will look at your wiki, Registry Pages (if applicable), watch your presentation video, view your poster, and ask you questions during your assigned judging session at the Giant Jamboree. All of this information is used during your evaluation.
Judging Workflow for Teams
There are two major parts of the judging workflow for teams: first, teams need to learn about the medals, prizes, and awards that they can achieve this year, and, second, teams need to document their projects and highlight the work they carried out towards earning those medals, prizes, and awards.
Learning
Together with each of your teammates and instructors, you need to learn about the judging criteria that you will be evaluated on by your panel of judges. This is done by reading through all of the content provided for the Medals, Awards, and Rubric as you begin your iGEM project. By reviewing this material at the start of your project, this ensures that you can ask questions as early as possible. Learning about and understanding this material should be the responsibility of the entire team and not a single person.
Medals
Medals celebrate the accomplishments of all our iGEM teams. Teams only compete with themselves for a medal. The three levels of medals, from lowest to highest are Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Through the bronze we appreciate the hard work and effort you have put into participating in iGEM, the silver celebrates your accomplishments, and with the gold we delight in your excellence. You can learn about this on the Medals page.
Awards
In iGEM, awards and prizes are selective and celebrate excellence in a given area. We have three major categories of awards and prizes: (1) Grand Prizes, (2) Track Awards, and (3) Special Prizes, which also includes Community Prizes. You can learn more about this on our Awards page.
Rubric
The judges use a scoring rubric to evaluate your team’s overall projects and any special prizes that you have nominated your team for on the judging form. Scoring rubrics are a common tool used to ensure consistent evaluation is taking place. The questions are posted publicly so both teams and judges can see the rubric questions, which helps keep the communication of expectations clear to everyone. You can learn more about this on the Rubric page.
Documenting
Through documenting your work, it is your responsibility to convince the judges that your team has achieved the medal and/or awards you are working towards. This means that all of your documentation must be clear and thorough. The documentation that has the biggest impact on judging This includes your entire team wiki (which includes the Standard URL Pages), Registry Part Pages (if applicable to your team), and the judging form. Other ways you will document your work include your team videos and your team poster, which are also evaluated by the judges. Information about team videos and posters can be found on the Deliverables page.
Standard URL Pages
To make it easier for judges to find relevant documentation on your team wiki, we have created Standard URL Pages in your wiki template for the medal criteria and some of the special prizes. If your team wants to be evaluated for a medal and/or special prize, you must document your work related to the medal criteria and/or special prize on these Standard URL Pages. You can learn more about this on our Standard URLs page.
Registry Pages (if applicable)
If your team is working with Parts this year, you must clearly document your work on the Part's Main Pages on the Registry. This includes the background information about the part as well as the modeling data and/or experimental data you collected. Judges will only evaluate the work shown on these Registry Pages for your Parts. You can learn more about this on the Add a Part to the Registry page.
Judging Form
The Judging Form is the primary way you will communicate your team's achievements with the judges. Judging Forms include the criteria for medals and allow teams to nominate themselves for Special Prizes. The Judging Form will be linked directly to the Standard URL pages, so if the URL address is altered then the page will not be linked correctly. You can learn more about this on the Judging Form page.
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