Judges Handbook

This handbook provides information about the fair for judges. Check out the main fair handbook for additional information. 

Getting Started

Looking to help out with the Mercer Science and Engineering Fair? If so, we can use your expertise as a judge. 

Sign up for a Fair Judge account. You will need the account as part of the judging process. We will get in contact soon thereafter. 

Contact us if you have questions. We can be reached via phone and email.

A Quick Judge Overview

All judges should sign up for an account on this website. Please include contact information including your phone number. Ignore the school field since this is for students and teachers. As part of the account creation process you may indicate that you want to be a Judge (the other option is teacher). The account creation is automatic but the judge approval is done manually so it may take us a little while (a day or two at most) to respond. Contact Bob if you do not get a response or have issues creating an account.

Once you have been approved as a judge you can enter additional information when you log in. This information is about your background and what types of projects you can judge. Please enter this information as soon as possible because we use it for assigning judges just before the fair. You should also indicate if you can judge this year. Normally this will be the only item you need to change after your first year of judging.

Judges will also have access to all the research plans and abstracts for projects entered in the fair. This will allow judges to prepare before they arrive at the fair.

The following sections provide additional information about judging.