| 1. |
Each student will be evaluated by a minimum of three evaluators. If the evaluators are faculty members they should not be affiliated with the student's university.
Evaluators can also be computing professionals who work in industry, government, etc.
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| 2. |
Judges will be assigned to a group
of student research projects. |
| 3. |
The following weights and measures
will be used by a particular judge to evaluate the abstract/research:
Scale for accepting the abstract:
Problem and motivation: 5 points
Background and related work: 5 points
Approach and uniqueness: 10 points
Results and contribution: 10 points
Scale
for evaluating the visual presentation of the research:
Oral presentation: 10 points
Visual presentation: 10 points
Research methods: 15 points
Significance of contribution: 10 points |
| 4. |
The top five students in each category
will advance to the semi-finals.
Scale
for evaluating the conference presentation of the research:
Knowledge of research area: 15 points
Contribution of research: 10 points
Presentation: 10 points |
| 5. |
A minimum of five judges will be assigned
to the semi-finals. Each judge will rank their evaluations
based on the assigned score. This ranking will be used to
determine the finalists. |
