Reminder of Judging Criteria

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Dear GVC Participants-

I hope this messages finds everyone well and hopefully most of us are getting a well-deserved break. I just wanted to remind everyone of the judging criteria that we use for the judging for the 2009/2010 contest.

Consistent with the goals of our sponsoring organization - the Give Something Back International Foundation – in 2008 we added a new criterion related to the "Helping Focus" of your websites. The breakdown of the now four criteria is as follows:

- Content (25%): To what degree is the website appealing to a worldwide audience?

- Presentation (25%): How well is the information presented? How well does it use the Web medium?

- NEW in 2008- Helping Focus (20%): To what extent does the website help users share cultural differences and/or understand environmental or social responsibilities and/or helps others and/or learn about key topics or issues?

- Collaboration (30%): How fully did the students participate in the project? How well did they work together to create their website?

As you can see, the Helping Focus criteria is an extension of the Content criteria, explicitly encouraging teams to include content related to advocacy or involvement in the topic of the site.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you for your hard work and participation in the GVC Contest.

Charles Elsey
GVC Program Manager