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The following is a list of Awards given by the iGEM Judges and some general information about how Award decisions are made. For examples of award-winning work, see
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===REGIONAL JAMBOREES===
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====[https://2013.igem.org/Judging/Evaluation_at_iGEM A note to iGEMers on Evaluation at iGEM]====
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====[https://2013.igem.org/Judging/Transparency_at_iGEM A note on transparency, the judging process, and judge affiliations] ====
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There have been concerns on transparency in recent weeks, so we have written a statement to address some of the issues. We are also providing a list of judges in all regions.
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I. <u>iGEM Medals</u>: All teams can earn medals. Teams must nominate themselves using the Judging Form, which will be available later.<br>
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The three levels of medals, from lowest to highest are Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Requirements for each medal are:<br>
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Be sure to study the official iGEM [https://2013.igem.org/Calendar_of_Events calendar] to find out the final dates for different judging requirements.
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<b>Bronze. </b>The following 5 goals must be achieved:<br>
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Awards at iGEM are divided into medals and special awards. All teams are eligible for a medal if they meet the 2013 medal criteria. We have updated the medal criteria this year, so please read over the new requirements for silver and gold medals.  
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<li>Team registration</li>
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<li>Complete Judging form</li>
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<li>Present a poster and a talk at the iGEM Jamboree</li>
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<li>Document at least one new  standard BioBrick Part or Device used in your project/central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines). A new application of and outstanding documentation (quantitative data showing the Part’s/ Device’s function) of a previously existing BioBrick part in the “Experience” section of that BioBrick’s Registry entry also counts.</li></ol>
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<b>Silver</b>: In addition to the Bronze Medal requirements, the following 4 goals must be achieved:<br>
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While we can hand out medals to all teams, there is only one special award per Jamboree. Teams are competing with each other for special awards at iGEM. Please read over the [[Judging/Awards | Awards]] page for a detailed list of medal requirements and award details.
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<li>Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected</li>
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<li>Document the characterization of this part in the “Main Page” section of that Part’s/Device’s Registry entry.</li>
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<li>Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines).</li>
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<li>Your project may have implications for the environment, security, safety and ethics and/or ownership and sharing. Describe one or more ways in which these or other broader implications have been taken into consideration in the design and execution of your project.</li></ol>
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<b>Gold</b>: In addition to the Bronze and Silver Medal requirements, any one or more of the following: <br>
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Teams will be required to submit a judging form that outlines their accomplishments according to the [[Judging/Judging_Criteria | criteria]].  Details on where/how/when to fill out this form will be provided as they are available.
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<li>Improve the function of an existing BioBrick Part or Device (created by another team or your own institution in a previous year), enter this information in the Registry (in the “Experience” section of that BioBrick’s Registry entry), create a new registry page for the improved part, and submit this part to the iGEM Parts Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines).<br><i>The growth of the Registry depends on having a broad base of reliable parts. This is why the improvement of an existing part is just as important as the creation and documentation of a new part. An "improvement" is anything that improves the functionality and ease-of-use of a part, so that it is more likely to be used by the community. For instance: strengthening the expression of a part by mutating the DNA sequence; modifying one or a few parts in construct (Device) so that it performs its intended job better; improving a cloning or expression vector that can be easily used by the entire community; and of course, troubleshooting and fixing a part reported to be non-functional. Data from an experimental comparison between the original and improved part/ device is strongly recommended.</i></li>
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<li>Help any registered iGEM team from another school or institution by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system.</li>
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<li>Your project may have implications for the environment, security, safety and ethics and/or ownership and sharing. Describe a novel approach that your team has used to help you and others consider these aspects of the design and outcomes of synthetic biology efforts. Please justify its novelty and how this approach might be adapted and scaled for others to use.</li></ol>
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II. <u>Software Track Medals</u>: Special medals are awarded to teams in the Software Tools track. Teams must nominate themselves using the Judging Form.  
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====Poster judging guidelines====
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See the <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Software">Software page</a> for details on <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Software/Judging">Software Judging</a>.
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It is important that your poster convey all of the information necessary without the need for verbal explanation. Please read over the [https://2013.igem.org/Judging/Poster_Guidelines poster judging guidelines] for more information on how we are assessing the posters.
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III. <u>Special Prizes</u>: <br>
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<p>Special prizes are awarded to honor specific innovative and unique contributions to iGEM. The iGEM 2012 judging committee hopes to award the following Special prizes, conditional on the accomplishments presented by the teams.</p>
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To file an official complaint regarding iGEM 2013 judging you must send an email to complaints AT igem DOT org. Your email should include your real name, the real name of your school and team, and the real name and email address of your faculty advisor. Your email must also be copied to your faculty advisor.  In your email please clearly state your complaint and what you hope will happen as a result of filing your official complaint. The iGEM judging committee will work diligently to respond to all complaints as quickly as possible. Complaints that are sent to other email addresses, or that do not include the requested information will be ignored.  All decisions by the judges regarding complaints are final.
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<p>For the following special prizes, teams must nominate themselves using the online Judging Form.</p>
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<li><b>Best Human Practices Advance</b>: Will the world be a safe place if we make biology easy to engineer? How do the lessons of the past inform the discussion going forward? Think beyond just convincing people that “synthetic biology is good.” Find a new way to help human civilization consider, guide, and address the impacts of ongoing advances in biotechnology.</li>
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<li><b>Best BioBrick Measurement Approach</b>: There are a lot of exciting Parts in the Registry, but most of the Parts have never been characterized. Designing great measurement approaches for characterizing new parts or developing and implementing an efficient new method for characterizing thousands of parts are good examples.</li>
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<li><b>Best Model</b>: Mathematical models and computer simulations provide a great way to describe the functioning and operation of BioBrick Parts and Devices. </li>
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<li><b>Best New Standard</b>: Standards help to make sharing biological parts easier. For example, the BioBrick DNA assembly standard makes it easier to construct parts from pre-existing parts created by the entire BioBrick community. What other sorts of standards can you create? How about a standard system for measuring promoter activity, a standard method for reporting compatible/ incompatible parts, a standard to help describe and control post-translational modifications (such as phosphorylation), or chassis-specific standards (for instance, a system for describing and sharing transgenic yeast)?<br></li>
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<i>Your New Standard should be clearly presented and easy to find in your <b>Wiki</b>.</i></li>
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<p>The following prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the judges:</p>
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<li><b>Best New BioBrick Part, Natural</b>: Most genetically-encoded functions have not yet been converted to BioBrick parts. In fact, most genes in the natural environment have likely not ever been sequenced. Thus, there are *many* opportunities to find new, cool, and important genetically encoded functions, and refine and convert the DNA encoding these functions into BioBrick standard biological parts.<br>
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<i>Your best natural BioBrick Part(s) should be visible on your Wiki’s <b>Data Page</b> (see <a href="https://igem.org/Sample_Data_Page">https://igem.org/Sample_Data_Page</a>).</i></li>
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<li><b>Best New BioBrick Device, Engineered</b>: New BioBrick Devices can be made by combining existing BioBrick Parts. For example, Inverters, Amplifiers, Smell Generators, Protein Balloon Generators, Senders, Receivers, Actuators, and so on.<br>
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<i>Your best new BioBrick Device(s) should be visible on your Wiki’s <b>Data Page</b>.</i></li>
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<li><b>Best Wiki</b>: The team Wiki is the “face” of your iGEM project. The team Wikis serve as the main project information resource for future iGEM students and teams, as well as the rest of the world. This award honors the “model” Wiki page, which exemplifies what the following year’s Wikis should strive for.</li>
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<li><b>Best Poster, Regional Level</b>: Posters should be attractive, clear, and concisely present your team's work.</li>
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<p>Additional special prizes that may be awarded if the quality of work is sufficiently high: </p>
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The 2012 World Champinoship Jamboree [https://2012.igem.org/Information_for_Judges Information for Judges] page contains information on how to cast your ballot on teams, where the room locations can be found and where to find all the posters.  This page will be updated closer to the 2013 World Championship Jamboree.
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IV. <u>Advancement to the World Championship</u>: a small number of teams will be selected to advance to the World Championship at MIT.
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We have re-written the judging handbook for 2013. Please see the new version [https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/d/d9/IGEM_2013_Judging_Handbook.pdf here].
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I. <u>Grand Prizes</u><br>
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A small number of iGEM teams (between 3-10 teams) will be selected by the judges as iGEM Finalists. These teams will be selected based on the overall excellence of their entire project, from choice of project, to new Parts and Devices, to the quality of the Project Description, Poster, and Presentation, to the success and impact of the project, to consideration of issues of Human Practices, and so on.
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<li><b>Grand Prize</b>: also known as the aluminum BioBrick Trophy; best overall undergraduate team project</li>
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<li><b>Best Food & Energy Project</b>: People need to eat. Planes, trains, and automobiles need to eat too. Can biotechnology be responsibly used to produce food or energy without causing widespread shortages of either, and without harming the environment that future generations will inherit?</li>
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<li><b>Best Environment Project</b>: The quality of the air, water, and land, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies, limits the happiness of humans and other creatures. Can biotechnology be used to help clean the air, provide fresh drinking water, restore or enhance soil quality, terraform a near-Earth asteroid, or protect, preserve, or enhance natural biological diversity?</li>
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<li><b>Best Health & Medicine Project</b>: Many health and medical problems might best be addressed by improved biological technologies. What can synthetic biology do?</li>
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<li><b>Best Manufacturing Project</b>: Have you ever heard of nanotechnology? Well, biology is a nanotechnology that already exists, and that actually works. The ribosome is a programmable nanoassembler embedded within a reproducing machine. Could we responsibly use biology to manufacture useful products, from the nanoscale (atoms) to the decascale (buildings and bridges)? What can biology be programmed to manufacture?</li>
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<li><b>Best Foundational Advance</b>: Just thirty-five years ago, scientists could not cut and paste pre-existing fragments of genetic material like we can today. The discovery and application of DNA recombination allowed us to assemble new genes. The synthetic biology community needs other enabling technologies that help to make new accomplishments possible. What are other types of basic tricks does nature use? Have you discovered and applied one that could revolutionize synthetic biology?</li>
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Latest revision as of 22:06, 1 October 2013

Information for iGEMers

A note to iGEMers on Evaluation at iGEM

We have written a short statement for the 2013 season explaining a little more on evaluations at iGEM.

A note on transparency, the judging process, and judge affiliations

There have been concerns on transparency in recent weeks, so we have written a statement to address some of the issues. We are also providing a list of judges in all regions.

Important Dates

Be sure to study the official iGEM calendar to find out the final dates for different judging requirements.

2013 Awards

Awards at iGEM are divided into medals and special awards. All teams are eligible for a medal if they meet the 2013 medal criteria. We have updated the medal criteria this year, so please read over the new requirements for silver and gold medals.

While we can hand out medals to all teams, there is only one special award per Jamboree. Teams are competing with each other for special awards at iGEM. Please read over the Awards page for a detailed list of medal requirements and award details.

Judging Forms

Teams will be required to submit a judging form that outlines their accomplishments according to the criteria. Details on where/how/when to fill out this form will be provided as they are available.

Poster judging guidelines

It is important that your poster convey all of the information necessary without the need for verbal explanation. Please read over the poster judging guidelines for more information on how we are assessing the posters.

Complaints

To file an official complaint regarding iGEM 2013 judging you must send an email to complaints AT igem DOT org. Your email should include your real name, the real name of your school and team, and the real name and email address of your faculty advisor. Your email must also be copied to your faculty advisor. In your email please clearly state your complaint and what you hope will happen as a result of filing your official complaint. The iGEM judging committee will work diligently to respond to all complaints as quickly as possible. Complaints that are sent to other email addresses, or that do not include the requested information will be ignored. All decisions by the judges regarding complaints are final.

Information for Judges

Information for Judges page

The 2012 World Champinoship Jamboree Information for Judges page contains information on how to cast your ballot on teams, where the room locations can be found and where to find all the posters. This page will be updated closer to the 2013 World Championship Jamboree.

Judges Dashboard

Please login to your Dashboard to see the teams you have been assigned.

2013 Judging Handbook

We have re-written the judging handbook for 2013. Please see the new version here.

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