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All teams can earn medals. Teams must nominate themselves using the Judging Form. Please see our <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Judging/Judging_Forms">Judging Form info page</a> for more information. Please note the deadline for judging forms will be the same as the wiki freeze, the <b>17th of October</b>. Please see the <a ahref="https://2015.igem.org/Calendar_of_Events">Calendar of events</a> for more information on iGEM deadlines.
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All teams can earn medals. Teams must nominate themselves using the Judging Form. Please see our <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Judging/Judging_Forms">Judging Form info page</a> for more information. Please note the deadline for judging forms will be the same as the wiki freeze, the <b>18th of September</b>. Please see the <a ahref="https://2015.igem.org/Calendar_of_Events">Calendar of events</a> for more information on iGEM deadlines.
 
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<li>Present a poster and a talk at the iGEM Jamboree. See our new 2015 poster guidelines <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Poster_Guidelines"> for more information. </a></li>
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<li>The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services. Please see the <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Imperial_College_London/Team">iGEM 2011 Imperial College Acknowledgements page</a> for an example. </li>
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<li>Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device used in your project/central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines). Please note you must submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry.  Please see the <a href="http://parts.igem.org/Help:Adding_Parts">Registry help page</a> on <a href="http://parts.igem.org/Help:Adding_Parts">adding new parts</a>. A new application and/or outstanding documentation (quantitative data showing the Part’s/ Device’s function) of a previously existing BioBrick part also counts. Please see the <a href="http://parts.igem.org/Help:Contributions">Registry help page</a> on <a href="http://parts.igem.org/Help:Contributions">how to document your contributions</a>. To fulfill this criteria, you will also need to submit the part with its original part name to the Registry, following the <a href="http://parts.igem.org/cgi/dna_transfer/index.cgi">submission guidelines</a>.</li></ol>
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<b>Silver</b>:</br> In addition to the Bronze Medal requirements, your team must convince the judges you have achieved the following 4 goals:<br>
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<li>iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. Articulate at least one <b>question</b> encountered by your team, and describe how your team considered the(se) question(s) within your project. Include attributions to all experts and stakeholders consulted.</li></ol>
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<li>iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. <b>Describe</b> an approach that your team used to address at least one of these questions. <b>Evaluate</b> your  approach, including whether it allowed you to answer your question(s), how it influenced the team’s scientific project, and how it might be adapted for others to use (within and beyond iGEM). We encourage thoughtful and creative approaches, and those that draw on past Policy & Practice (formerly Human Practices) activities.
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Revision as of 21:02, 27 March 2015

Please note that the information on this page is in final draft form.

The following is a list of Awards given by the iGEM Judges and some general information about how Award decisions are made. For examples of award-winning work, see the 2014 Jamboree Results.

iGEM Medals

All teams must convince the judges they have achieved each of the medal criteria. Simply ticking a box does not guarantee you will awarded a medal. For New Track teams, please see medal criteria specific to your track below for more details on what you need to accomplish to be awarded a medal.

All teams can earn medals. Teams must nominate themselves using the Judging Form. Please see our Judging Form info page for more information. Please note the deadline for judging forms will be the same as the wiki freeze, the 18th of September. Please see the Calendar of events for more information on iGEM deadlines.

The three levels of medals, from lowest to highest are Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Requirements for each medal are:

Bronze.
Your team must convince the judges you have achieved the following 6 goals:

  1. Register for iGEM, have a great summer, and attend the Giant Jamboree.
  2. Complete the Judging form.
  3. Create a Team Wiki.
  4. Present a poster and a talk at the iGEM Jamboree. See the 2015 poster guidelines for more information.
  5. Create a page on your team wiki with clear attribution of each aspect of your project. This page must clearly attribute work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services.
  6. Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines). You may also document a new application of a BioBrick part from a previous iGEM year, adding that documentation to the part main page.

Silver:
In addition to the Bronze Medal requirements, your team must convince the judges you have achieved the following 3 goals:

  1. Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected. Document the characterization of this part in the Main Page section of that Part’s/Device’s Registry entry. This working part must be different to the part documented in bronze medal criteria #6.
  2. Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry. Your part must be different to the submission for Bronze medal criteria #6 (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines [insert link here]).
  3. iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, and intellectual property rights. Demonstrate how your team has identified, investigated and addressed one or more of these issues in the context of your project. Your activity could center around education, public engagement, public policy issues, public perception or other activities (See the human practices hub for more information and examples of previous teams exemplary work).

Gold:
In addition to the Bronze and Silver Medal requirements, your team must convince the judges you have achieved at least two of the following goals:

  1. iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, and intellectual property rights. Expand on your silver medal activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the design and/or execution of your project OR demonstrate an innovative human practices activity that relates to your project (this typically involves educational, public engagement, and/or public perception activities; see the human practices hub for information and examples of previous teams comprehensive and innovative activities).
  2. Convince the judges you have helped any registered iGEM team from a high-school, different track, another university, or institution in a significant way by, for example, mentoring a new team, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, modeling/simulating their system or helping validate a software/hardware solution to a synbio problem.
  3. Improve the function OR characterization of an previously existing BioBrick Part or Device (created by another team or your own institution in a previous year of the iGEM competition) and enter this information in the Registry. Please see the Registry help page on how to document a contribution to an existing part. This part must not come from your 2015 part range.
  4. Demonstrate a functional prototype of your project. Your prototype can derive from a previous project (that was not demonstrated to work) by your team or by another team. Show this system working under real-world conditions (biological materials may not be taken outside the lab).

New Tracks

Art and Design

Coming soon!

Community Labs

Coming soon!

Hardware

Coming soon!

High School

Coming soon!

Measurement

Coming soon!

Software

Coming soon!

Please send us any comments or suggestions for awards and judging by email to the judging committee at judging AT igem DOT org.