JUDGING AND SCORING

• Judges are 3-4 unbiased anonymous faculty/staff/administrators of HIS that are not parents of STEM participants nor associated with STEM. Names will be provided after the event.

• Judges will reach a consensus and rank all entries from N to 1 where N is the number of entries. Highest number is the strongest entry. Ties may be given. 

  • If 5 teams are ranked and there are ties at the top and bottom, a sample might look like the following: 5, 5, 3, 2, 2.

• Coaches (1 representative from each STEM team) will view all entries and submit rankings of these entries. 

• For coaches, rankings are from N-2 or N-1  to 1. This is because coaches cannot rank their own students’ entries. 

• The best entry would be given a rank of 14 or 15 (if 16 entries exist).

• Coaches and judges do not rank based on the rubric. They give rankings based on difficulty level, elegant mathematics, efficient structure, creativity, originality, and professionalism of the submitted entry. 

• Coaches’ scores are all submitted and averaged to achieve a final Coaches’ Score. This is ranked from N to 1.

Total Score = points rank + coaches' rank + judges' rank