RISE as a Judge
As a RISE Judge, you gain exclusive access to:
- Top tier, use-inspired innovation
- Networking with students, faculty/staff, Alumni, and University lab directors
- Northeastern decision makers
- Potential investment opportunities
- Ambitious, enlightened and goal-oriented students
- Fellow elite industry representatives
Access abounds at RISE, the largest university expo of its kind.
Instructions for Judges
We’ll be hosting RISE 2022 virtually again this year. On the day of RISE, judges will have live video conversations with their assigned presenters. Only after speaking with students over video should judges enter their scores.
Judges can select one of two time periods for speaking with students: 10:00 AM ET – 12:00 PM ET or 2:00 PM ET to 4:00 PM ET. We will assign judges as best we can to their areas of interest — but RISE is an interdisciplinary event where we’ve asked students to speak outside of their fields. With this in mind, judges can expect to also review projects a bit farther afield. The schedule is below.
Thursday, April 14
Round I
- 8:30 AM ET- 9:30 AM ET: Judge Log-On and Question Period
- 9:30 AM ET – 9:45 AM ET: Round I, Welcome and Kick-Off
- 10:00 AM ET – 12:00 PM ET: Round I, Live Question and Answer
- 12:00 PM ET – 1:00 PM ET: Round I, Scores Entered and Finalized
Round II
- 1:00 PM ET – 1:30 PM ET: Judge Log-On and Question Period
- 1:30 PM ET – 1:45 PM ET: Round II, Welcome and Kick-Off
- 2:00 PM ET – 4:00 PM ET: Round II, Live Questions and Answers
- 4:00 PM ET – 5:00 PM ET: Round II, Scores Finalized
Friday, April 15
- 12:00 PM ET- 1:00 PM ET: RISE Awards Announced
Last year, we had judges review 5-6 presentations, spending about 12-15 minutes total looking over the presentations, engaging in conversation with the presenters, and entering their scores.
We’re actively recruiting new judges — particularly those from outside of Northeastern to participate in this year’s RISE.
If you’d like to judge, let us know by filling out our RISE Expo Judge Interest Form. We’ll review your information and forward an invitation to register as a judge on our RISE Presentation Gallery site.
If you served as a judge last year, we’d love to have you back. We’ll be using a new and very simple RISE Presentation Gallery this year. We’ll forward an invitation to participate to all previous judges.
For RISE 2022 the students will share pre-recorded video presentations on our RISE Presentation Platform. Judges will then do Live Video Question and Answer sessions with their assigned presenters on the day of RISE through the Presentation Platform.
We’ve designed this system to be as simple as possible! Judges will be invited to register on our platform using their email and then, on the day of the event, all you will need to do is log-in. The system for reviewing presentations, judging and participating in all facets of the event, though, will be seamless — and very intuitive.
Prior to the live event, we hope to open the exhibit hall so judges will be able to view the presentations. You must, however, be logged in to participate in the required video interview and score the presentation!
RISE Project Presentations are evaluated using criteria detailed in the RISE Evaluation rubric.
All aspects of judging — from creating your profile to viewing presentation to speaking directly with presenters to judging — will happen directly on the RISE 2022 Presentation Platform.
RISE Judging is a two stage process: Preliminary Review & Day of RISE Live Discussion and Evaluation
- Preliminary Review. We hope to open the Virtual Exhibit Hall prior to the live event. During the lead up to RISE, if possible, be sure to review your assigned presentations in our RISE 2022 Presentation Platform. The presentations are short, three-minute, pre-recorded videos intended to be video introductions to the presenters projects. You’ll be able to text chat the presenters in advance of the live conversation and they can answer any preliminary questions you might want to ask.
Please note that you must attend RISE and speak with presenters during the Live Video Question and Answer.
On April 14, we’ll ask Judges to be speak directly with their assigned presenters during a designated two-hour window. You must speak with the student presenter to make your evaluation.
You will review presentations and have live conversations during Round I (10:00 AM ET – 12:00 PM ET) or Round II (2:00 PM ET – 4:00 PM ET) of RISE Judging
On RISE Day, you will will login to the RISE Presentation Platform and have conversations with the students whose work you are judging.
FINDING YOUR JUDGING ASSIGNMENTS
Once the event is launched (we hope to launch it a week prior to April 14), all judges will see a new tab “Judging” when they log-in to the RISE Presentation Platform.
When judges go to this tab, they will see a table with five columns:
- The title of every presentation they’ve been assigned
- Links to go to the presentations directly
- Links to the evaluation form for each presentation
- The status of each evaluation
- A time stamp for completed evaluation submissions
EVALUATING PRESENTATIONS AND ENTERING SCORES
After navigating to the “Judging” tab, click the Presentation button to head to the pre-recorded video and to speak directly with the student. Once you have spoken to the student, hit the Evaluate button and you will see the evaluation form assigned to that presentation.
You must speak with each presenter.
Once you’ve completed the evaluation, hit “Submit” and you will see a confirmation screen and be re-directed back to the evaluation page.
Join us after the RISE Expo to celebrate winners and accomplishments!
All judges will receive a lunch voucher for their generous service to our students.
On April 15 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET join us during the lunch hour as we announce the RISE Awards.
Click here to learn more about The RISE Awards.
“RISE is a great experience and it is very inspiring to see all of the creative thinking that is going on … It is great to network with other judges and expand your own horizons. I would definitely come back to judge and would highly recommended it to others.”
Richard Lucash, Side Car Angels