Students who present posters in the Student Competition for the President's Prize will be evaluated in the following areas:
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Scientific Content (60%)
- Introduction and background with pertinent literature cited (5 points)
- Title appropriate for presentation content (5 points)
- Judges will score the title given on the poster, not what is listed in the program.
- Abstract informative, well written, correlates with poster content, and printed on poster. (10 points)
- Objectives clearly stated and concise (10 points)
- Materials and methods (study design) clear, concise, and appropriate to the problem (10 points)
- Results, analysis, and discussion are clear, concise, and accurate (10 points)
- Significance of results to field of study (10 points)
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Poster Display (40%)
- Organization
- Logical order, minimum redundancy (5 points)
- Effective use of space; smooth transitions between sections (5 points)
- Text, Figures, and Tables
- Legible with large fonts, color contrast, no conflicting backgrounds (10 points)
- Text without grammatical errors; not excessively wordy (10 points)
- Effective use of figures and/or tables; coordinated with text (10 points)
- Organization