Dear Judge,

Thank you so much for volunteering to provide this valuable service to student members. This truly is an important contribution to the development and encouragement of young scientists. Please provide the following information and then press the submit button. Once you have done this we will assign each of you 2-3 posters or presentation to evaluate based upon the match between your areas of expertise and the topics of student presentations and posters.

The student competition has been changed to make it more efficient and fairer this year. These changes include new restrictions on student eligibility that should reduce the number of student participants to a manageable number. The other change is that the form the judges use to evaluate the students presentation for the competition will only be used to select the winner of the competition and will not be shared with the students. Instead, a program has been established by Jennifer Fraterrigo (IALE Student Rep) that is designed to provide a formal structure for students to seek feed back from scientists on their presentation independent of the competitive program. We strongly encourage all of you to also help with that program but wish to make clear that these are now two separate programs. One with a goal of recognizing the best presentation by a student at the meeting and the other with a goal of providing valuable feedback to students on their presentations. Your assistance with both of these programs will be greatly appreciated.