JUDGES+BRIEFING+NOTES+2010

= COAST PROVINCE STUDENTS’ CONGRESS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY  = //** (Conducted under the Public Officer Ethics Act) **// 1. || BIG RESPONSIBILITY || Please do not be biased for or against; the referee must not score or trip a player. || || GREETINGS || Please greet the presenters as sign of civility and to put them at ease || 2. || CLERKING THE SCHEME || Please enter all the facts as indicated in the marking scheme. These shall not be accepted if incomplete or abbreviated needlessly || 3. || TIME || TALKS – 8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes questions to make 10 minutes || || ||  EXHIBITS – 13 minutes presentation, 2 minutes questions to make 15 minutes || 4. || TEAM LEADER || The judges in a subject area identify a team leader who will be the time keeper. The leader shall enter the start and stop time on his marking schemes for each presentation. || 6. || INDEPENDENCE  || The judges judge independently || 7. ||  THEMES || PRIMARY THEME - //science// || || ||  CONGRESS THEME – //science and technology for environmental improvement// || || ||  SUBJECT THEME – does the presentation belong, say, in physics or biology. Judge and enter as UNRANKED. || || ||  TALK- EXHIBIT THEME –should the presentation be a talk or an exhibit. Judge and enter as UNRANKED. || || ||  TALKS – let them not tell you how to make it or how to do it, they should have done it or made it and taken it to EXHIBITS. Judge and enter as UNRANKED. || || ||  EXHIBIT THEME – does this thing do what it is alleged to do || 8. || JUDGES SITTING || Talks judges sit at the centre back and the presenters present at the front against the black board. || 9. || JUDGES MOVING || Exhibit judges move to where the exhibit is laid out, NOT the exhibit moves… || 10. || 3 QUESTIONS || The judges must ask 3 questions at the end of the presentation. These must relate to the presentation. || 11. || TIE BREAKER || Please break the ties in position 1, 2 and 3 by consensus. || 12. || SCORING || Score the marks and do the totals for each marking scheme after all the judging of all the entries in the area has been done. || 13. || ADD || Add the judges’ marks for each presentation and get the average to get the ranking mark. || 14. || ABSTRACT || Please enter the abstract of the presentation in the rank list if it is not already entered or in conflict with what is entered. || 15. || JUDGE AND DO NOT RANK || # Soap making || ||  Where such entries are discovered, judge through but enter as UNRANKED. || 15. || REGISTERED PRESENTERS ONLY || Judge only those entries in the registration in your file or those forwarded officially to you. ||
 * 1) Making shoe polish
 * 2) Making herbal medicine
 * 3) Making insecticides
 * 4) Making mosquito coils
 * 5) Recycling plastics
 * 6) Making trigonometric meters
 * 7) Making clinometers
 * 8) Any talk that is not scientific. ||