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SRS Judging & Award Criteria

Award Categories 

Typically, Student Research Symposium judges award three students with certificates for outstanding presentations. The award categories are:

  • Outstanding Bachelor’s Poster Presentation
  • Outstanding Master’s Poster Presentation
  • Outstanding Doctoral Poster Presentation  

Judging Criteria 

  • Adherence to presentation format requirements 
  • Command of information or depth of knowledge on the topic 
  • Strength and quality of research elements (e.g. problem, methods, conclusion, impact, etc.) 
  • Presentation organization and flow 
  • Professional delivery of presentation (e.g. verbal articulation, pace, inflection, etc.) 
  • Aesthetics of presentation 
  • Overall presentation
View the CEHD Student Research Symposium rubric

Award Announcement

After SRS, each award recipient will receive direct communication notifying them of their award through their George Mason (Office 365) email. The Office of Student and Academic Affairs also shares an official announcement of the award recipients via: