YICTE Judging Criteria
This page contains information about the judging criteria for YICTE. Knowing how your project will be judged will help you to think about the important information that should be on your poster displays and in your project video if you are making one. It will also help you to prepare for the questions that the judges might ask you on the day.
The Judges will be friendly and will be looking to try to give you as many points as possible. You can make their job of giving you points easier by being clear about how great your project is and how it meets these criteria.
The Judges will be friendly and will be looking to try to give you as many points as possible. You can make their job of giving you points easier by being clear about how great your project is and how it meets these criteria.
1. Creativity and Innovation – How unique and imaginative is your idea?
- Is it new and innovative? Analyze the situation, identify a need, propose and develop a solution for the defined need.
- Develop a brief that identifies a simple criteria relating to requirements that make it useful and attractive.
- Consider labeled drawings, modeling, storyboarding, using digital technologies and multimedia for presentations.
2. Quality and Completeness – how well does the project do what it is proposed to do?
- Justify and apply methodical approaches to planning, designing or implementing solutions.
- Demonstrate competency in a range of practical skills appropriate to the project.
- Apply and explain an understanding of the nature and function of Digital Technologies/ICT in
your project. - Are objectives in the project met and functions as a working product?
3. Level of Difficulty – how difficult is your work?
- For example, materials, tools, software and equipment used in conducting investigations.
- Develop and apply a plan and sequence for production taking into account, time, resources
and correct techniques. - Implementation of a working product.
4. Documentation – how much effort you have put into your report, posters and your presentation?
- Investigate questions and predictions by collecting and analyzing data, suggest explanations for findings and reflect on the processes undertaken.
- Use methods to thoroughly document the development of the project.
- Use creative thinking techniques including brainstorming, sketching and modeling.
Creativity and Innovation
You are trying to show that you have found a real problem in the world or in your own life that needs solving. You are also trying to prove that the solution you have come up with is exciting, or unique, or special in some way.
If your problem is based on a real world problem (such as litter, global warming, children's health or another big issue) then try to explain why the problem is important by including some statistics. You might do your own survey or research and make a graph to show the problem or you might find statistics online that you can use. Don't forget to say where the statistics come from as this will add credibility to your case.
If your problem is more of a personal challenge, try framing your problem as a question. An example might be:
How can we make a fun computer game for kids?
You need to develop a brief with "criteria" that will be able to be used to show if you have been successful or not. This might be a description of what you have been trying to create with a checklist of the features you think it should have. You can include your "big dream" ideas in the list to show that you are still hoping to improve your project in the future if you are still not completely finished.
If your problem is based on a real world problem (such as litter, global warming, children's health or another big issue) then try to explain why the problem is important by including some statistics. You might do your own survey or research and make a graph to show the problem or you might find statistics online that you can use. Don't forget to say where the statistics come from as this will add credibility to your case.
If your problem is more of a personal challenge, try framing your problem as a question. An example might be:
How can we make a fun computer game for kids?
You need to develop a brief with "criteria" that will be able to be used to show if you have been successful or not. This might be a description of what you have been trying to create with a checklist of the features you think it should have. You can include your "big dream" ideas in the list to show that you are still hoping to improve your project in the future if you are still not completely finished.
Poster or presentation ideas for Creativity and Innovation:
- A large poster that clearly states the problem you are trying to solve
- Data and statistics about the problem
- Graphs you have made in a spreadsheet
- Infographics you have created to illustrate the problem
- A design brief or description of your (proposed) solution.
- A checklist of the things that you have included (or would like to include) in your solution that make it a successful solution to the problem.
- Reasons why you think your solution is a creative or innovative idea and why you think it is a good solution.
Quality and Completeness
You are trying to prove that you have worked really hard on your project and that you have had some successes along the way. You might like to tell the story of how you created your solution and the problems you had to overcome along the way.
Poster or presentation ideas to show Quality and Completeness:
- A demo video of your product that includes screenshots or a screen cast
- A summary of what your project achieved
- A labelled diagram that highlights the features of the product
- A completed checklist of your criteria
Level of Difficulty
As this is a digital technology competition, the judges will be looking at the level of technical skills you have used to create your product. Make sure you highlight all of the technology (hardware and software) that you have used so the judges can see the full range of skills you have applied during the process.
Poster or presentation ideas to demonstrate Level of Difficulty:
- List of hardware and software used
- A mini-poster that shows how you have used each technology within your project
- Showcase the challenges you have overcome (Did you have to learn to use new software or learn to code? What were the hardest parts of the challenge?)
- Show a timeline of the process you went through in solving the problem from coming up with the idea, learning new skills, overcoming challenges, responding to feedback to improve your project, to completion.
Documentation
The posters you create or videos you produce to tell about your project and the process you have been through will be judged as well. When making your posters, plan out your ideas to make sure you have addressed all the big ideas.
Think about using a colour scheme or a recurring symbol or logo to make your display look more organised. The quality of your display will help get people interested enough to come and look at your hard work more closely.
It is a good idea to print the writing onto one colour paper and then to mount it on a second colour to really make it stand out. Any writing needs to be clear and able to be read from a distance. Don't overcrowd your posters.
Think about using a colour scheme or a recurring symbol or logo to make your display look more organised. The quality of your display will help get people interested enough to come and look at your hard work more closely.
It is a good idea to print the writing onto one colour paper and then to mount it on a second colour to really make it stand out. Any writing needs to be clear and able to be read from a distance. Don't overcrowd your posters.
Poster or presentation ideas for Documentation:
- Use headings to clearly identify what each poster is about (e.g. Problem, Process, Solution, Design Brief, Technologies used etc)
- Use the "Launch" Cycle to help guide your presentation. Try to document each step of the process in some way.
- Think of engaging and creative ways to document your work.