Team Leader Judge Training Powerpoint

2. General Judging Points
o Recruit Team Members
o Bring Team member list
o Community Judges will be added to your team
o Paper with what to do when- on clip board for team leaders
o Final Number of Projects by category
o Please wear name tag at all times while judging
o Dress Appropriately
o Careful with paperwork
o Careful with conversations
o Do not ask personal questions
o Conflict of Interest
o Okay if school/ name is on project
o Sign/comment/initial project Hang Tag
o For categories with large number of projects- Start from each end of tables
o Participants get better with each interview
o Turn in paperwork to coordinator at front office in a timely manner, especially
forms with quick turn-around requirement

3. General Schedule
 12:30 PM Mandatory Judge Meeting for all
judges
o Organization for Judging
 Move Projects
 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

4. Moving Projects
 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
 Attach to place project was originally located
 Designate someone if you can’t be there for the project
move time
 Front office needs to be told who the designee is

5. Project Hang tags
 Make sure all judges sign or
initial
 Constructive comments only
 Black out any negative
comments, regardless of
who made them

6. Display
 Display Team can Begin Judging for the best designed
board

7. General Judging Form

8. Math & Computer Science
Judging Form
Elementary Form Junior/Senior Form

9. Paper Nominations
o From category team
o Nominate best 3-5 papers in
each category and division
o Each division for the paper
team to evaluate
o Friday morning
o Write the project number and
title from board
o Projects may not have a paper
o If no paper is present, paper
cannot be nominated
o Participants may bring paper
for interview Friday. Ask for the
paper.
o One award from each division

10. General Schedule
 8:00am Paper Team Begins
 9:00am Oral Team Begins
 9:00 am -12:00 Junior Senior Division Interviews
 Place Award Decisions
 Nominations for Oral Awards
 9:00 am -10:45am Elementary Interviews
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
 Place Award Decisions
 Nominations for Oral Awards
 Nominations for Most Enthusiastic Speakers
 1:00-2:45 Junior, Senior Team Leader Return for Big Awards
 2-2:45 Elementary Team Leaders Return for Big Awards
 All awards due by 3:30pm

11. Oral Award Nominations
• As a team, each category nominates the best 3-5
speakers in each category
• 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

12. Oral Award Form

13. Most Enthusiastic Speaker
 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
 Two awards
 Purpose- Radio interview

14. Novice Newton Awards
o Encouragement awards- for projects with
good creative projects, not everything is
together for a place award.
o Elementary Level only
o No more than 2 from each category
o Category Team Decision

15. Middle School Principals Award
• Applies only to Junior Division
 Encouragement award-
 for good creative projects
 not quite a place award
• 2 from each category?
• Category Team Decision

16. Pioneers of Science
 Encouragement award-
 for good creative projects
 not quite a place award
 Elementary Level only
 2 from each category?
 Category Team Decision

17. Grand Awards
Possibilities-
1st, 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

18. Intel International Science &
Engineering Fair Award (ISEF)
 Applies to Senior Division only
 2 student & 1 Alternate to go to ISEF
 Must be 1st place project
 or 1st and 2nd from the same category
 Team Leaders’ Decision

19. Student Observer to Intel International
Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF)
 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

20. Colorado State Science & Engineering
Fair Award (CSEF)
 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

21. Most Original Project Awards
 1 Senior Division
 1 Junior Division
 1 Elementary Division
 Must be from a project that has won a category award
 Creativity
 Team Leaders’ Decision

22. Best Overall Project
 1 Senior Division
 1 Junior Division
 1 Elementary Division
 Must come from 1st place Projects
 Team Leaders’ Decision

23. 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