Would You Like to Become a Judge?
Your commitment includes a full 8 hours on Friday, March 22 at LMC from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The day includes judge training, morning review of assigned student poster boards and afternoon interview with those same assigned students. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. The day’s commitment includes:
—Attend the “Logistics of Judging” and overview of the judging process 7:00 am to 8:00 am. provided.)
—Work with a team of 4 to 6 judges to view and score the student projects assigned to each team 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. This includes morning project board review and afternoon student interviews. (Lunch is provided.)
—Work with approximately 130 other judges to ensure an in-depth evaluation of each science fair project is completed including poster board review and afternoon interaction with every participating student.
—Adhere to the scoring metrics criteria provided by the Science Fair to ensure consistency in the judging process. (Click here to see Judging Criteria.)
—Work collaboratively with assigned judge team to discuss project scores, determine questions for interviews with students at their project boards to test the depth of student knowledge of their science experiment and background research and stay until all projects in the judging division category scores and ribbon assignments are finalized.
Would You Like To Be a Team Leader or Chief Judge?
To effectively manage 130+ judges and evaluate the quality of more than 350 expected science project, the Science Fair has established a structure which includes Team Leaders (up to 20 needed) and Chief Judges (up to 8 are needed). The responsibilities include:
Team Leader: In addition to judging projects with your assigned team, a Team Leader agrees to stay beyond 3 p.m. to work with Chief Judges to resolve any disputes. This may take up to an hour. A Team Leader serves as a facilitator of one team (usually about 5 judges) throughout the judging day. Team Leaders tabulate the team's final scoring of individual student projects; identifies judging anomalies and works with Chief Judges to resolve these anomalies; and submits the final Judging Sheet to the Science Fair Scoring Center.
Chief Judge: A Chief Judge agrees to stay beyond 3:00 p.m. and may need to stay through the evening hours of March 22nd until final awards have been determined. A Chief Judge is responsible for one of the six categories and oversees the Team Leaders (as many as 10). As Chief Judge, during the day you will be asked to briefly visit all projects in the assigned category; review project scores; and facilitate the luncheon discussion of judges within your category. In the afternoon, based upon scores, the Chief Judge will visit all possible first place projects and work with other Chief Judges (up to 6) to make final determinations of Grand Sweepstakes and other special awards after the judging day concludes.
If you are interested in becoming a judge, please click here.