High School Competition/Judging Criteria

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For the iGEM jamboree judges will use the following guidelines to judge each team.

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Lab Standards

  This prize will be based on what your lab accomplishes for the field of synthetic biology.  
  Synthetic biology is a  field of collaboration between labs.  Each lab submits new parts or identifies 
  existing biological parts, these parts will be added to the growing registry.  
  If your lab produces a new part, identifies existing parts, or alters an existing part your lab will 
  receive a standard based on your work.

Specials

  The judges can award a special prize to a team.  
  The specials are:
      Best poster
      Best presentation
      Best natural biobrick
      Best biobrick assembly
      Best Wiki

Tracks

  All teams participating in iGEM will have to declare a track for their project.  
  The tracks for the high school division are the same for the collegiate division.  
  They are:
      Environment
      Food and Energy
      Foundational Advance
      Health/Medicine
      Information Processing
      Manufactoring
      New Application
      Software     

Grand Prize

  At the end of the presentations and the poster judging the judges will choose teams as finalists. 
  During the jamboree the finalist will present and the judges will choose the grand winner of the jamboree.