I signed up to be one. 9th and 10th grade. Have never been one before. Am looking for advice on what to look for. Proper execution of the the scientific method? Creative approaches? Good data analysis? Or perhaps how hard they worked?
When I did it, my primary evaluation standard was that they actually did science (ask a question and answer it through experimentation). So many were just copy this thing out of a book like making crystals.
I’ve done it a few times at two different schools, and the organizers have always given out rubric sheets, where you have a number of questions where you give each a score of 1-4 or so, and then total up all of the points.