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Competition Guidelines

Projects will be judged and awards made once each academic year.

1. The awards will be made for the first, second, and the third places at the discretion of the judges.
2. Projects will be judged using the following system:
   1. Preliminary review of all entries.
      The Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division (IGSD) will appoint a faculty screening panel to read and review the project executive summaries and reports. This committee will select the best five or six projects as finalists.
   2. The Final judging
      1. The Awards Committee, which includes external judges, will read the summaries and review the project reports of the finalists.
      2. In Term C, the authors of the selected projects will be invited to make a 20 minute presentation of their project during the final judging.
      3. The competition winners will be announced by the judges at a reception following the oral presentations.
   3. The competition presentation this year will be on Friday, January 28^th, 2011 in the Campus Center Odeum.