Judging Expectations

Understanding and fairly evaluating the various aspects of the projects that iGEM teams carry out can be difficult for both novice and experienced judges. We therefore provide judges with a Judging Handbook to provide some guidance on how to navigate this process. For 2016, we will also provide a range of example projects from previous years that judges are welcome to look through before and during the main competition months. Our goal is to provide this content by January 2016, so please check back for updates!

Judging Handbook

The iGEM 2015 Judging Handbook is now available to download (click on image below). We encourage everyone, iGEMers and judges alike to download and read this document to become familiar with evaluation in our competition:

Previous Projects

We recommend that judges look at previous years' results to get a sense of the types of projects iGEM teams work on. Judges can easily look at 2015 Results as well as the results from 2008 to 2014 online.

A Range of Projects

As you look through previous years' results, you'll notice that there is a large range of projects that the teams work hard on during the summer months. Below are a few examples of previous projects you can look through if you find looking through all of the results a little daunting. We have not included the Grand Prizer Winners, as those are easy to find on our Results page.