The number of judges that a school must provide is outlined in the SUBMISSIONS section of this website.
To become a judge, you must be willing and able to:
provide an email address in order to receive, read, and write comments on the stories in an electronic format. Judges may print copies of the stories if they wish.
provide specific feedback (recommended: at least three comments in both the “liked/admired “ and “suggestions-for-improvement” segments of the feedback template) on an assigned batch (up to 10 stories) in Round 1 of Judging. No comments are written after Round 1.
For all Rounds (1, 2, and 3), each judge is asked to:
rank the stories of the assigned batch in a vertical list, in order of merit (most to least admired, with 1 being the top-ranked story, and 10 being bottom-ranked).
recommend which stories in that vertical list should qualify for the next round of judging, by drawing a horizontal line AFTER the ranking number of the last story deemed worthy to proceed in the contest.
In Round 2, judges receive a different batch of stories (again, up to 10 stories) to read and rank.
In Round 3, a short list of approximately 20-25 stories must be read and ranked before Judging Day
Because this academic year has been organized for all schools into quadmesters, we have multiple entry dates, to accommodate the shifting academic landscape. Judging will still go through three rounds, but not all judges will necessarily be judging at the same time for Rounds 1 and 2. This is particularly important for judges who are teaching, since their workload will shift considerably, and teachers carrying two courses in a quadmester will not be expected to judge in that time frame.