1 General Information

Full name: -

Username: -)

1. Email

2. Age

Note: To be eligible to become an iGEM judge, you must be at least 23 on the 31st of March 2017. Any applicants who do no meet this criteria will be evaluated on a case by case basis.

3. Gender

• Female
• Male

4. Institution

5. Institution type

• Academia
• Industry
• Government
• Non-governmental organization (NGO)
• Non-profit organization
• Other:

6. Position

• Dean, or equivalent
• Professor, or equivalent
• PI (primary investigator), or equivalent
• Post-doctoral researcher, or equivalent
• PhD student, or equivalent
• Masters student, or equivalent
• Other:

7. Region Where you currently live/work :

• Africa
• Asia
• Europe
• Latin America
• North America

8. Number of years of iGEM experience as a:

Judge: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6+

Instructor / PI: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6+

Advisor: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6+

Student: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6+

Volunteer: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6+

2 Jamboree Information

Please complete this section as well as you can. You will be asked to check or update this information prior to the Jamboree.

1. Sweatshirt Size:

• XS
• S
• M
• L
• XL
• XXL
• XXXL

2. Dietary restrictions If you have other dietary restrictions, please contact iGEM HQ

• Vegetarian
• Food Allergy

3. Are you available to attend the entire Giant Jamboree (November 9 - 11 2017, in Boston)?

• Yes
• No

3.1 If not, please indicate which days/times you are available to attend.

3 Conflicts of Interest

There are many possible reasons why you might be unable to judge some teams impartially. For example:

• If you are a PI or instructor for the team
• If the team comes from a school that you attended, or a school where you work
• If you mentored or advised the team informally

These situations could lead to a conflict of interest. iGEM takes conflicts of interests very seriously. Judges are not permitted to judge teams for which they have a conflict of interest. If you are a PI or instructor, your first responsibility is to your team, and we will schedule your judging assignment so that you are able to attend your team's presentation.

Please tell us about your conflicts of interest here.

If you have any other conflicts of interest that are not indicated above, please describe them:

4 Motivation

Please answer these questions in detail, especially if this is your first IGEM judging application.

Did you apply to judge last year? View your answers from last year.

1. Why do you want to be a judge in iGEM?

2. What professional experience do you have that's relevant to iGEM (e.g., synthetic biology, hardware, software, human practices)?

3. Have you judged student competitions other than iGEM before? If so, which ones? (e.g. FIRST, BIOMOD, Science Olympiad)

4. What features of an iGEM team and their project make them worthy of recognition?

(New judges may want to familiarize themselves with the 2015 Judging Handbook Part 1. The 2017 Judging Handbook will be available later this year.)

5 Track Preferences

iGEM teams compete in several "tracks", based on the topics of their projects. Please see the Track page for more information on each track.

When we assign judges to teams, we will try to assign you your first preferences wherever possible. However, we can't anticipate how many teams will be in each track, so it may not always be possible to assign you your first choice. Therefore, you can indicate how you feel about each track. The more first choices you select, the more likely it is that you will be assigned teams in those tracks. If you are unable to evaluate teams in some track areas (software or measurement, for example), please put "Avoid" for those tracks.

Please indicate how highly you prefer each track. You may select multiple first, second, and third preferences.