Transcript SSTFI Judging Orientation - State Science & Technology

SSTFI Judging Orientation
Junior High
Welcome
• Thank you for taking your time and joining us to
create a great opportunity for SSTFI students.
• If morning judges can stay and help in the
afternoon session please see Vicki at registration
desk.
• You are the face of the fair and can really make a
difference.
• When students think of their fair experience they will think
of you.
• STEM pipeline: You are recruiting for STEM
Reasons for Judging
• Participants will have more contact with
judges than anyone else in the fair.
• Judge interaction with the participants is the
image left behind after the fair.
• Judging Quality ensures that proper winners
are rewarded and recognized.
• Judging Quality establishes and enhances the
quality of fairs in the future.
Benefits of Judging
•
•
•
•
•
Excellent opportunities for networking.
Enhance communication skills.
Opportunities to broaden knowledge.
Build and Enhance Self-Confidence in youth today.
Give back to the community by sharing your
knowledge.
• Most importantly, have fun while helping others.
Goal of Judging
• Help them understand:
– their research and how it could be improved
– the science process and how they can sharpen their work
– how to build strong claims and evidence
» Does the claim make sense
» Data interpretation into evidence
• Create a positive experience so they will come back
with a better project next year
Judging
• Multi-faceted:
– Relax presenters so they can tell their story
– Help the student to better understand their work
• Science
• Analysis
• Presentation
– Positive attitude towards science
– Improvement goals for future work
• Good question, good design, good data
= good claims and evidence
Judging Session:
• Introduction:
– Hello, my name is your name here
– Please give me a few moments to look over your
board
• Take 3-5 minutes to explain your project to me
• Questions:
– How did they arrive at this project?
– How did they design and conduct tests?
Judging Session (cont.)
• What kind of help did you have in your project
and why did you have this help?
• How confident are you in your claims? Why?
• What changes would you make?
• What questions do you have for me?
Things to look for
• Did they do the work and understand it?
• Did they try to use statistics and did they use
them correctly?
• Did they communicate clearly?
• If Team, were they truly a team? (team Score
sheet is different)
• If this is a top project, why?
Scoring <- Morning
• Bar Code: You will get bar coded stickers.
• Score stickers 1-12. You will rank the projects you
viewed best being 1.
• Make sure you put the score sticker on the bottom
right corner of the form in the space indicated.
• Comments are for students, scores are just to rank and
select top projects for awards. Do not put any scores in
the comment section.
• Team Judging has an extra component, teamwork (New
this year: teams will be ranked within the biological or
physical category, not as a separate category).
Sticker goes here
Comments
• Comments help the students reflect on your
conversations and process them later.
– Positive and constructive. This can be a challenge
but if you cannot make a comment in a positive or
constructive way, DO NOT comment at all.
– If n (sample size) is too low:
• + I think the results you reported would be either
stronger or different if you had more trials.
• - Your data is meaningless because you didn’t have
enough trials.
• Comments to motivate improvement
Overview
•
•
•
•
Be a role model
Be a motivator
Be an educator
Be polite and courteous. You are not in an equal
relationship. You are a scary, powerful person so use
gentle courteous language to relax and put them at
ease
• Stay on time
• Initial judging card at display to show
that you have judged that project
• Map and Schedule
Schedule
• You will have time to locate and review all of
your exhibits before judging.
• Come back, relax, get a snack and get
organized.
• 10-15 minutes per project. Make notes.
Complete the forms away from project.
• Do not discuss projects with other judges in
front of the students
• Ask if you have questions
Reminders
• Stay on time (10-15 min/project)
• Do not wait, move on and cycle back. Let the
information desk know if you cannot find a
project or a student is not there.
• Double check to make sure you are on the right
form
• Bring forms to Judging office and put in baskets
• Conflict: switch with another Judge
• Project Locations
– 7th & 8th <-floor
– 6th
<-concourse
Afternoon Judging
• Today there will be two types of judging.
– The projects that weren’t identified for being
judged for the top awards will be judged first,
comments only. Turn in sheets in baskets at
judging office.
– The projects identified for top awards will be
judged and ranked by category, Biological and
Physical.
Judging Teams
• The all-day judges will separate into teams at lunch and
select a leader (experience helps)
– By grade: 6, 7, and 8
– By Category: Biological and Physical
• Judging must be completed by 3:00
• Teams must identify top projects
• Top 6 for grades 6, 7, and 8 for both biological and
physical.
• Then select top 3 biological and physical overall
• In addition identify top 6 individual projects overall.
• Complete forms and turn in to Judging Chair by 3:30
Final Award Forms
• Teams will negotiate to agree upon final rankings.
• Please make sure team names are on form and
signed by team leader and make sure we have a
contact number for the team leader before the
award forms are turned in.
• This process can very often be interesting and
please be careful. It is possible for a 2nd place in
grade to get placed higher in overall. It is up to
the discretion of the lead judges.
Thank you
• Any Questions?
– Email
• Ethan Erickson: [email protected]
• Vicki Speake: [email protected]