RISE as a Judge
As a RISE Judge, you gain exclusive access to:
As a RISE Judge, you gain exclusive access to:
Access abounds at RISE, the largest university expo of its kind.
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
Round II
Friday, April 15
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.
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:
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