Dear fellow Hanoverians:
Hanover
High School’s Science Fair is scheduled for Thursday, February 3,
2011. More than 125 HHS students will conduct research this fall and
present their findings at the science fair. Judging is a critical element
of a science fair and we can only advance our top 15 projects to regional
competition if we have enough independent judges to participate in our
fair. Please consider volunteering as a judge. A general
description of what a judge is expected to do is shown below.
A judge should have some background in a science
related field (such as science, engineering, technology,
architecture, math, programming, manufacturing, or health or medicine)
Judges spend ten to fifteen minutes with an
individual student. The judge listens to the student present his or her
research and conclusions, and then the judge may ask the student
questions.
There is a simple scoring rubric that leads the
judge through a scoring of 1-10 on 5 different criteria (based on the
state guidelines)
Judges are usually assigned to 5 projects related
to the content area chosen by the judge
Each project is judged by 3 separate judges (your
score is only one of 3 required scores for a project)
The overall time commitment is typically less
than 2 hours and must be between 2:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on the day of the
fair (February 3rd, 2011)
Parents CAN BE judges – parents are not
assigned to their own child. Projects with any conflict of interest
will be avoided.
Please
consider supporting our fair by being a judge. The students need the
opportunity to be judged so that our fair will qualify to advance our top 15
projects to regional competition. Click
here to fill out the form to become a judge (takes less than 2 minutes to
complete the form). (If link does not work the website to paste into your
browser is https://spreadsheets.google.co m/a/hanoverschools.org/viewform?formkey=3DdE1CN01ObEkyckZtZHZ5WVBWbGdicmc 6MQ
). For more information, please contact sciencefair@hanoverschools .org
.
Thank
you, Renee Parry and Katharine McHenry, HHS Science Fair
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