Prejudging and Judging

Judging Summary

Expo judges will evaluate the following five project components. Students should considered these carefully when developing their project. All projects submit materials in advance for prejudging. Judges involved with the prejudging will also conduct the Expo interview.

1. Specific Category Criteria (30%) - To what extent did you follow the instructions for your specific category? Typically, winning entries follow instructions and then go beyond the minimum requirements.
(see category requirements page for details on each category)

2. Science Content (20%) - To what extent did you learn about the science related to your entry, and how accurately did you present that information? Your project should reflect your understanding of the science topic you chose.

3. Use of Resources/General Written Requirements (20%)
How much effort did you put into locating and using resources? To what extent did you us the appropriate paper format and submit an accurate annotated bibliography?

4 . Creativity (10%) - To what extent does your project demonstrate creativity in terms of the topic chosen or problem addressed?

5. Poster/Interview at Expo Event (20%) - To what extent does the presentation of the project enhance the information conveyed? Note that the main factors influencing the presentation will be the quality of the poster and materials presented, and the 5-minute interview with judges.

Prejudging

What the students must submit to their teachers:

In April 2012, all students need to register for the Student Bio Expo.

Students will need to submit an electronic copy of their project to their teacher using the Expo 2012 Submission Template when it becomes available, filling in each section of the template as needed. You can see an example of the 2011 template here.

If the student are participating in the Expo independently, they should register and then email a copy of your project to jgriswold@nwabr.org no later than April 20, 2012.

All pieces should together into ONE WORD DOCUMENT or compiled on a website.

The file should be labeled with the following code:

2-Letter Category Abbreviation_2-Letter School Abbreviation_YourLastName

(Do not use spaces or punctuation other than underscores, this makes it easier to upload winning projects to the website.)

CODES

Category	Category Abbreviation
Art	AR
Career/Industry	CI
Drama&Dance	DD
Global Health	GH
Lab Research	LR
Molecular Modeling	MO
Multimedia	ML
Music	MU
Teaching	TE
Website	WB
Writing - Creative	WC
Writing - Journalism	WJ

School	School Abbreviation
Attic Learning Community	AL
Ballard	BA
Cleveland	CL
Eastlake	EL
Eastside Catholic	EC
Garfield	GA
Glacier Peak	GP
Ingraham	IN
International Community	IC
Juanita	JA
Lynnwood	LW
Mercer Island	MI
Roosevelt	RO
Royal	RH
Shorecrest	SC
Shorewood	SW
TEC	TE
West Seattle	WS
Woodinville	WO
WF West	WFW

Example: Joey Jones, at Lynnwood High School, submitting a research project would label his file as LR_LW_Jones.

If the student's school is not listed, he or she should make up a two letter code that makes sense and is not already taken.