For Judges
Serving as a judge in the Graduate Exhibition is an excellent way to learn about research and creative scholarship happening through the University while helping students build their communication skills. For the video category, judging can be done online remotely. For the other categories, judging takes place in person.
Registration for this year's competition has closed.
- On this Page
- How judging works
- Guidance
- Categories
- Important Dates
- Rubrics
- Contact
How Judging Works at the Exhibition
Judges will be emailed with assignments and instructions several days before the Exhibition. Each category has its own judging criteria, and we encourage judges to view the rubrics beforehand to prepare. For all categories except Performance, judging is assigned at random. The presentations are purposefully intended for a general audience. Please keep this in mind if you are an expert in the field of one of the exhibits you are judging.
Guidance for Judges
To make sure that your feedback to students is beneficial, we encourage all judges to be curious, be open, be respectful, and be constructive. Graduate students have spent months or years developing the projects and performances that they are presenting. They are also learning to communicate technical and scientific ideas to a general audience, which can be challenging. Our goal is to make the Graduate Exhibition a comfortable and safe space in which graduate students can share about their work and gain new perspectives from the judges.
Remember that all Exhibition attendees—presenters, judges, and others—are expected to uphold Penn State's values, which include integrity, respect, responsibility, discovery, excellence, and community.
Michael Verderame, senior associate dean in the Fox Graduate School, shares more tips:
Important Dates
View the 2025 Graduate Exhibition schedule below.
Deadlines
Monday, January 13, 2025
- Registration opens.
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Registration closes for all judging categories
Event Schedule
Monday, March 24 to Friday, March 28, 2025
- Video judging will take place online
Friday, March 28, 2025
- Poster Session and Visual Arts: 1:00-4:00 p.m., HUB-Robeson Center, Alumni Hall and Visual Arts Gallery
- Performance Night: 7:00-9:00 p.m., Recital Hall
Friday, March 28 to Sunday, April 27, 2025
- Visual arts exhibits will be displayed at the HUB-Robeson Gallery
Judging Categories
Rubrics
Review the rubrics below to understand the judging criteria.
Contact
