One of my least favorite activities is judging the entries to these competitions. It's also a great joy when you find great ideas and you get to work with the kids and parents. But before that happens, you have to eliminate hundreds of entries.
And I really am a softie. I hate judging especially when the entries are bad. "Scale of 1 to 10 kid, you get a zero for commercial viability and one for originality. Thanks for the 4 pages of sketches and the pictures of the prototype you sent. You seem to have worked very hard on something that already exists. Well done."
So I end up dawdling about it. Doing one at a time. Giving kinder scores than they deserve. And then I go back and have to adjust sometimes (for the paper ones anyway) so I don't create a problem where an entry that has been done before and has zero chance of winning is scored 10 points below something that is actually exceptional.
In any case. Now that I have given myself 5 breaks from the 17 entries I needed to judge this morning, I'm done.
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