CEW has a student presentation competition with monetary prizes for first, second, and third place. Students can enter a poster or platform presentation in this competition. Volunteer non-student attendees (judges) are needed to evaluate these presentations. Three judges are needed for each presentation, so please consider volunteering.

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Students indicate their interest in participating in the competition during abstract submission. To become a judge, non-student attendees indicate their interest in evaluating student presentations during conference registration.

Prior to the conference, conflicts of interest (i.e. supervisors, co-authors) between judges and student presenters are identified to the best of the committee’s knowledge. Then, excluding conflicts of interest, judges are randomly assigned to student presentations. The judges are notified of their assigned student presentations ahead of the conference so there is time to indicate further conflict of interest. While judging assignments are organized by the student program sub-committee, these students are not involved in the actual judging or tallying of scores for presentations.

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During the conference, standard forms are provided (choice of digital or physical) for judges to score student presentations. The forms are constructed based on input from previous students and judges and are intended to help standardize the evaluation of presentations by providing a detailed scoring guide. When judges have completed and submitted their forms, scores are tallied by designated non-student members of the organizing committee. Following the last student presentation, all student scores are tallied and the scores from multiple judges are averaged to tabulate a mean score for each student. The mean scores are used to determine a first, second, and third place for both poster and platform presentations.