Competition Assessment Process

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• Competition Assessment Process

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Assessment Process

• 2-step judging process
• Preliminary assessment
• Final assessment
• Preliminary assessment is undertaken at
  participating school.
• Finalists from preliminary assessment go into
  final assessment round.
• Final assessment is an open forum in neutral
  venue.

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Preliminary Assessment

• Participating team will be notified via the
  school principal of the date time of visit by
  3-man assessment judges.
• Participating team may choose essay, written
  report, ppt, photograph, video, drawing and/or
  exhibit to showcase to Preliminary Assessment
  Judges.
• Participating team has 30 min max to present and
  another 30 min max to showcase with exhibit, if
  any.
• Judges will assess based on a set of evaluation
  criteria.

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Final Assessment

• The best 3-5 teams from each school category
  shall be selected to go into final open contest
• Selection of finalist is purely based on best
  aggregate scores collected from all PATs.
• Finalists must re-submit a final report and
  present their report to a panel of judges from
  the Advisory Committee in open forum
  presentation. Winners are picked based on their
  report presentation.

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Assessment Criteria

• Originality Creativity
• Relevance to Objectives
• Data originality and Assimilation Process
• Substance/Depth
• Work planning and Organisation
• Analytical Processes
• Problem solving Skills
• Co-operation / Teamwork
• Relevance to Community
• Possible connection to global climate change

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Final Assessment Judging Procedure

• Three groups of finalists will give presentations
  to the Panel of Judges in an Open Forum session.
• Each team will give 15 min presentation.
• A Question and Answer session will follow each
  presentation.
• Winners of the competition are selected.

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Other Competitive Categories

• Beside project report presentation format,
  other submission format
• Project Exhibit
• Essay
• Video recording
• Drawing
• Best maintained mini-weather station (2007
  onward)
• Grading for 1st, 2nd, 3rd position only if no. of
  such submission exceeds 15 for each (Pri, Sec
  JC) school category. Only merit prizes will be
  given if submission is less than 15.

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Finalist Project Presentation Exhibit

• Notification of finalists Fri 28th April
• Receipt of finalist reports Thu 11th May
• Despatch of finalist reports assessment
  criteria to Advisory Committee members Fri 12th
  May
• Finalist assessment Thu 18th May
• No. of teams 5 Pri, 5 Sec, 3 JCs
• Award presentation Fri 26th May

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Recognition

• Finally
• Notification of the winners, the finalists the
  participating team/school.
• All participating teams/schools will be invited
  to an Award Ceremony.
• Every participating team member school will
  receive a certificate.
• Finalists will receive memento and vouchers.
• Winners will receive trophies, vouchers and
  overseas travel (for 1st place winner).

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Potential Places

• Winning teams will travel overseas to attend
  climate change or environmental related
  conferences/seminars/workshops where they will
  have the opportunity to showcase their projects.
• Primary School Winners will travel to Asia or
  Australia
• Secondary School Winners will travel to Europe
• Junior College Winners will travel to U.S or
  Europe