ESKOM CAPE TOWN EXPO

FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS

JUDGING ATCAPE TOWN EXPO

2015

JUDGING

Two parts:

1. Prejudging of content – Evenin/Morning Your creative thought Your file, journal, and poster The judges think of questions to ask you

2. Interview - Afternoon You tell the judges about your project Judges ask questions and you answer

them

JUDGING

Various Judges!

3 Medal JudgesConvener (judge team leader)Chief Judges (see all projects and moderate all

results)Maybe Special Judges

CHIEF JUDGES DECISION IS FINAL!

JUDGES ASSESSMENT

Judges will evaluate your project like this:

Scientific ability & creative thought – 50%

Display: Your poster, file, and journal – 30%

Interview: The way you explain your project and answer questions – 20%

TOTAL : 100

PART A: SCIENTIFIC ABILITY

TO EVALUATE YOUR SCIENTIFIC ABILITY,

THEY WILL LOOK OUT FOR:

Good command of the scientific method Scope / range of investigation Aim Method Results Analysis Conclusions

PART A:CREATIVITY, ORIGINALITY

TO EVALUATE CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY,

THEY WILL LOOK OUT FOR: The amount of research you did The originality of your approach – how you did it Your use of resources – books, internet,

professionals Your depth of planning and execution of

investigation

PART B:WRITTEN COMMUNICATION(POSTER, REPORT, JOURNAL)

Display of project is bright and eye-catching Poster summarises project and is neatly

organised Report file neatly and logically organised Written language on poster and in report Evidence of background research done Aim of project reflected on poster and in report Methods (and materials) used or technologies

used

PART B:WRITTEN COMMUNICATION(POSTER, REPORT, JOURNAL)

Results on poster and in report Analysis / Discussion of results Interpretation Conclusions reached are reflected on poster

and in report Other authentic material included in file or

display Sketches, diagrams, graphs and tables References in report Acknowledgments

JOURNAL and REPORT

Journal:Record of ALL your work – no matter how rough

it is!Each page should have the date when you did it!Report:Neat file – contents page, dividers, logical

arrangementAT THE FRONT OF YOUR REPORT:DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY AND

ABSTRACTAim or introduction (Why)Method (How)

JOURNAL and REPORT

Results (What happened – tables & graphs)Interpretations (Describing what happened in

words)Discussion of results – patterns and trends and

why they may have happenedConclusions (refer directly to aim / hypothesis)Extras – errors and modifications (what went

wrong and what could you have done to improve your project if you had time)

References and Acknowledgments (which books and websites and people you referred to and who helped you)

Rough work in the appendix

PART C : INTERVIEW SEE SEPARATE POWER POINT