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The public will see the presentation and they will be able to post to the general discussion.
During the competition days, only the judges assigned to your judging group will be able to see the judges’ queries and your replies. However, after the competition is over, the site will be archived and judges’ queries and presenter replies will be visible to all visitors of the site.
Visit their presentations and post comments throughout the days of the event.
Our panel of judges will select winners for Best Poster, Best Video, and Overall Best Solution. In addition, we will have a Public Choice winner based on the solution that is most liked on Facebook.
Yes! It is our hope that this competition will be successful in engaging the public in this work. To encourage this, there will be a “Public Choice” winner to be given to the presentation that has been “liked” most frequently by the public on Facebook during the days of the event. If you have a Facebook account, please participate by “liking” your presentation and sharing it with your friends so that they can vote too! All votes (“likes”) must be in by midnight EST Thursday February 26th, 2015.
Facebook’s Graph API is a data resource which can be used to retrieve current statistics for Facebook activity. Our system connects to this API to take regular snapshots of “like”-ing activity for each presentation in the competition; “like”-ing activity is different from “share”-ing or “comment”-ing activity; only “liking” activity counts towards choosing the Public Choice winner.
In addition, we do not track the “liking” of posts or comments, only the “like’s” associated with the actual presentation URL. We monitor these snapshots for unusual activity, and treat this data as canonical, taking the final snapshot once voting has ended at midnight EST on Thursday February 26th, 2015.
Another source of confusion is that the counter on the Facebook “like” button does not actually display the number of “like’s”. Instead, it provides the total sharing activity for a given URL, which is not what we are using for our selection criteria. More information can be found by reading the Facebook Like Plugin FAQ .
Click on Presentations in the top navigation. This will bring you to a page where you can view all of the presentations. In the left navigation, select the “By Judging Group” filter. Your judging group’s name will be displayed along with all of the presentations in your group.
During the competition, only you and the judges can see these queries and replies. Guests can only see and post to the general discussion area. After the competition is over, however, the judges’ queries and replies will be made visible to visitors of the site.
No, judges’ scores will not be shared with you. However, we will send a compilation of their comments to you after the competition.
The Competition website will be archived and available for guests to view once the competition is over. Participants retain all copyright and equivalent rights, but, upon submission of materials, particpants agree to license their submissions under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
During the competition days, only the presenters and judges assigned to that presentation will be able to see judges’ queries and presenter replies. However, after the competition is over, the site will be archived and judges’ queries and presenter replies will be visible to all visitors of the site.
Please send an email to innovate_mitigate@terc.edu.
Please send an email to innovate_mitigate@terc.edu.
The schedule is as follows:
Day 1:Visit each presentation and ask each team a question in the Judges Queries section.
Day 2-3:Presenters should respond to your query, and you can ask for more information or further clarification.
Day 2-4:Review all presentations and score them using the provided rubric. Scores will not count until the entire rubric is complete.
The winners will be announced online here on the competition website on Friday February 27th, 2015.
At the top of your screen in the black bar, you will see a shortcut to “My Presentations.” This link is present at the top of every page on the site when you are logged in.
At the very top of every page in the black bar, you will see a link to the “Control Panel.” The Control Panel provides a link to a summary of your scores so that you can keep track of the presentations that you have partially or fully completed. You will also see a link in the Control Panel to other judges’ scores within your judging group.
Yes. You can save what you have done as you go through the rubric so that you can leave and return, as necessary. To return to scoring rubrics that you have started, click “My Scores” in the top bar of any page.
Once you have completed judging a presentation and have entered scores for each item on the scoring rubric, be sure to click “submit” so that they can be tallied with the others. You must score all presentations within your group. If you only score some, none of your scores will be counted! This judging must be completed by midnight on Thursday, February 26th, 2015.
From the Home page, you can navigate to the My Scores summary page. Here you will see which presentations you have completed and which you have yet to do. You must score all presentations within your group. If you only score some, none of your scores will be counted! The Home page will also help you to keep track of how many queries you have sent, as well as how many unread replies you have received from the presenters.
The judging must be complete by midnight on Thursday February 26th, 2015.
The emails of the judges in your group are available in your Control Panel and you should feel free to email each other as needed. You can also email the entire group by clicking “Email Group.”
It is our hope that this competition will be successful in engaging the public in this work. To encourage this, we will have one “Public Choice” winner to be given to the presentation that has been “liked” most frequently by the public on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, please participate by “liking” your favorite presentation. All votes (“likes”) must be in by midnight EST Thursday February 26th, 2015.
Click “Download Poster” underneath the poster (bottom right-hand corner). You can then print this PDF as you would print other files from your computer.
Click the “Fullscreen” icon in the toolbar that displays across the top of each poster. This “screen” icon is next to the % Scale bar. You can click it again to escape back to the page size view. We encourage you to use fullscreen for the best view of a poster.
Guests and interested members of the public are invited to browse the presentations and watch the videos provided by the presenters. Guests are encouraged to contribute to the discussion for each presentation, and to vote for their favorite presentations using their Facebook account for “Public Choice” voting.
You can ask questions in the discussion area and the team will be notified.
It is our hope that this competition will be successful in engaging the public in this work. To encourage this, we will have one “Public Choice” winner to be given to the presentation that has been “liked” most frequently by the public on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, please participate by “liking” your favorite presentation. All votes (“likes”) must be in by midnight EST Thursday February 26th, 2015.
Yes, all guests visiting the presentations can post questions and feedback to presenters by posting to the discussion area on their presentation page. Presenters will be monitoring this area too, so be sure to check back to see replies that are posted to your questions.
Anyone visiting these presenters’ pages can see the questions and replies that are posted to these discussions.
Click the “Fullscreen” icon in the toolbar that displays across the top of each poster. This “screen” icon is next to the % Scale bar. You can click it again to escape back to the page size view. We encourage you to use fullscreen for the best view of a poster.
Click “Download Poster” underneath the poster (bottom right-hand corner). You can then print this PDF as you would print other files from your computer.
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