Judging/Application Form

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to the new iGEM 2015 judging application form. We've created this form to simplify the process of applying to be a judge in iGEM. Judging is an awesome way to see the Giant Jamboree and allows you to interact with other senior members of the community behind the scenes.

Judging in iGEM is a lot of fun, but it does require a strong commitment. iGEM teams work incredibly hard on their projects over the summer, so we need people who are also committed to work hard evaluating them. If you can spend time during the summer learning about the judging process, time the week before the Jamboree evaluating team wikis, and time coming to the Jamboree, we would love to have you on board!

We're making a few changes to judging this year. We're de-specializing judging to eliminate separate evaluation committees. This means we need people who understand iGEM or who are willing to learn about it. We will provide educational resources to help people learn how to evaluate teams, and we will help you get up to speed if you are selected.

We're looking for:

iGEM Instructors and Advisors
People who have judged iGEM in the past
People in the synthetic biology industry
Synthetic biology researchers who are new to iGEM
Past iGEM participants who have graduated and gone on to further study

If you have colleages who you think should apply, please send them the link to this form.

If you're a student on a 2015 iGEM team, you can't apply to be a judge this year. But if you work hard and finish your degree, you can apply next year!

Thank you for filling out this form. We look forward to picking a strong judging team for 2015!

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General

Full name: - (Username: -)

Email:

Gender:

Female
Male

Institution:

Institution type:

Academia
Industry
Government
Non-governmental organization (NGO)
Non-profit organization
Other:

Position:

Dean, or equivalent
Professor, or equivalent
PI (primary investigator), or equivalent
Post-doctoral researcher, or equivalent
PhD student, or equivalent
Masters student, or equivalent
Other:

Region (where you currently live/work): Asia Europe Latin America North America

Number of years of iGEM experience: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6+

Sweatshirt Size: XS S M L XL XXL XXXL

Dietary restrictions:

Vegetarian
Food Allergy (describe):
(If you have other dietary restrictions, please contact iGEM HQ.)

Are you available to attend the entire Giant Jamboree (September 24th-28th, 2015, in Boston)? If not, what are your schedule conflicts?

If you are selected as a judge, you need to attend the iGEM 2015 Giant Jamboree in Boston (September 24 – 28). iGEM cannot provide travel funding for judges to attend.

If you are registered as a Primary Contact, Instructor, or Advisor on the roster of a 2015 iGEM team, you will need to pay the Jamboree registration fee even if you are selected as a judge. (You should think of the Jamboree registration fee as the final part of the team registration fee and how we charge more for bigger teams.) If you are not on the roster of a 2015 iGEM team, you will not be charged to attend the Jamboree.

Team Affiliation and Conflicts of Interest

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Select any 2015 iGEM teams you are affiliated with: (you will be recused from judging these teams)	Select any 2015 iGEM teams for which you have a conflict of interest: (you will be recused from judging these teams)

(To select multiple teams, use Ctrl-click or Cmd-click. You may update your affiliations / conflicts of interest once team registration closes in May.)
Please describe any additional conflicts of interest:

Motivation

Why do you want to be a judge in iGEM?

What professional experience do you have that's relevant to iGEM (e.g., synthetic biology, hardware, software, human practices)?

Have you judged student competitions other than iGEM before? If so, which ones? (e.g. FIRST, BIOMOD)

What features of an iGEM team and their project make them worthy of recognition?

(New judges may want to familiarize themselves with the 2014 Judging Handbook Part 1. The 2015 Judging Handbook will be available later this year.)

Track Preferences

iGEM teams compete in several "tracks", based on the topics of their projects. Please see the Track page for more information on each track.

When we assign judges to teams, we will try to assign you your first preferences wherever possible. However, we can't anticipate how many teams will be in each track, so it may not always be possible to assign you your first choice. Therefore, you can indicate how you feel about each track. The more first choices you select, the more likely it is that you will be assigned teams in those tracks. If you are unable to evaluate teams in some track areas (software or measurement, for example), please put "Avoid" for those tracks.

Please indicate how highly you prefer each track. You may select multiple first, second, and third preferences.

Track	First	Second	Third	Neutral	Avoid
Art and Design
Community Labs
Energy
Environment
Food and Nutrition
Foundational Advance
Hardware
Health and Medicine
High School
Information Processing
Manufacturing
Measurement
New Application
Policy and Practices
Software

Specialist Knowledge Areas

We are de-specializing judging this year and eliminating subject-specific judging committees. This will require all judges to have a general level of knowledge about many areas of iGEM. For example, we will not have dedicated Human Practices judges. If you're not familiar with Human Practices, you'll need to learn more about this area in order to evaluate teams.

You will have help! We are creating educational materials to help you learn to evaluate these areas. We have more than a thousand previous projects to draw on for the best examples. We also have the judging committees who can help you and answer questions on these topics.

(See the Awards page for details about what each area means in iGEM.)

Please indicate your level of knowledge in each area:

Area	Expert	Great	Some knowledge	I'm prepared to learn	Not qualified
Applied Design
Entrepreneurship
Hardware
Measurement
Modeling
Parts
Human Practices
Poster
Software

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