Welcome
Judges!

Thank you for volunteering to be a judge. Please familiarize yourself with the schedule and training modules in order for us to have a smooth and successful science fair. If you have any questions please contact the Director of Judging.

Nicholas Young

Director of Judging

Tatyana Borovina

Asst. Director of Judging

Interested in being a judge?

Judge Qualifications

In order to judge high school projects, judges must have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience or greater in the field they wish to judge.
In order to judge middle school projects, judges must have an Associate’s degree or 2 years towards a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience or greater in the field they wish to judge.
Exceptions to this are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the judging team (judge.acsef@gmail.com) prior to registration.

Judge Registration

Judge Registration is currently closed. If you are interested in judging ACSSEF 2024 please email us so we can notify you when judge registration for 2024 opens.

Judge Training 2023

Judge Training Slides

ACSEF 2023 Judge Schedule

Thank you to all of our 2023 Judges

Behind the scenes our category and special award judges have volunteered their time preparing to interview each of our student participants by viewing the deliverable items consisting of an abstract, research plan, lab notebook excerpts and additional application forms.

The 2023 judges hailed from various academic, medical, business and industrial sites throughout the Bay Area and nationwide!

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Judge Format 2023

Round 1:

Interview the student as normal, aiming for a 10 - 15 minute interview. Try to interview students who are not speaking with other judges. Once you've gotten all the information you need from a student, score the project, and pick another one from the list. We will remind you to make sure you are moving every 15 minutes, but feel free to work more quickly. This is a "shotgun" start - you do not need to go in any particular order, just find an available student. Judging ends at 11:30 AM and scores are locked in at 12 PM.

Round 2:

Similar to Round 1, there will be no scheduled interviews. You will select a project from your list with a student available, but this time, there might be other judges around. You will do each interview for 10 minutes, move on, and select another student. At the end of Round 2, you will move to supergroups to rank projects within your assigned category. You will only have 90 minutes to meet with all of your assigned students.