Information for Judges and Moderators

Judges and moderators are incredibly value members of the SDSU Student Symposium. We encourage faculty, staff, and community members to participate in the event as judges and/or moderators. The success of S3 is realized when the entire university community comes together to demonstrate their commitment, investment, and enthusiasm.

We are incredibly grateful to the mentors and judges and who have participated in the Symposium for several years in a row.

Judges

Judges help identify winners for awards and provide constructive feedback for student presenters to grow professionally and improve their projects.

Judges will register on the Symposium/ForagerOne platform and will provide information about their subject matter expertise, preferred presentation type and any conflicts of interest of students who they cannot judge without bias.

Each presentation type has a different scoring rubric that will be completed within the Symposium/ForagerOne platform.

Oral Presentations Scoring Guidance

Poster Presentations Scoring Guidance

Oral Presentations Scoring Rubric

Poster Presentations Scoring Rubric

Performance Visual Arts Scoring Guidance

Performance Visual Arts Rubric

Please Note: Faculty members cannot judge and score their mentees' presentation(s). This presents a conflict of interest and scores from faculty mentors will not be included in the final scoring summary from the other judges.

 

Moderators

Moderators ensure the proper timing and conduct for presentation sessions. They assist in the transition between presenters and keep track of time remaining in a presentation so that presentations start and end when they are supposed to.

Information for how moderators can sign up to participate in the 2025 SDSU Student Symposium will be provided at a later date.