With the results for the STEM project out, is it possible to get a copy of the rubric to see what we missed?
I’ve already sent an email to REC asking if it’s possible to get a copy of it.
This is our entry, btw: https://challenges.robotevents.com/challenge/165/viqc-elementary-school-stem-research-project-biomimicry-in-engineering/entry/10287
Thanks for your time.
If it’s anything like the Engineering Journal + Interview rubrics they destroy them afterwards. 
But it doesn’t hurt to ask. 
Part of the Judge Advisor role is to destroy all of the scoring sheets used at the event. So they would be long gone at this point.
I do wish there was some sort of feedback mechanism that could guide the students on how to improve.
I tried for years with zero success. 
Seeing this referance made me incredibly happy. I dont know why.
The rubric is on the challenge page (VIQC Middle School - STEM Research Project: Biomimicry in Engineering | Online Challenges) under Technical Details and Judging Information. Have someone else check your entry against the listed criteria, and see if they can give you feedback. All of the OC judges are volunteers, so your simulation should get you pretty close to the real outcome.
There’s a possibility that you didn’t miss anything… let me explain: at some high-level events there can be multiple “perfect” scores on the rubric. For example, a few years ago I was judging design award at the world championship, and we had to make our decision between 6 teams that all had “perfect” rubric scores on their engineering notebooks. While the rubric is an important tool that judges used to help make their decision, it it’s not the mechanism that analytically makes the decision on an award. (mostly, the rubric scores narrow the field). There is the human factor, the judges conducting the interview or reading the project, that the final award is based upon.
This advice is spot-on. You really won’t get any different results seeing the rubric used for your project.
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