Become a Judge!

Are you interested in evaluating quality technical communication? Are you an experienced technical communicator? Do you have 10 hours (spread over approximately a month) to volunteer your time to your local chapter? Consider volunteering to judge in the STC-TC annual competition.

It is no secret that the STC competitions remain the Society's premier professional development opportunity. Members and the community are invited to submit their best work for evaluation and possible awards. Judges receives entries and training in objective evaluation criteria. It is each judge's responsibility to evaluate one to three entries objectively and according to the criteria, communicate with the other judges on his or her team to reach a consensus, and complete all judging activity by agreed-upon dates.

We are currently seeking volunteer judges for the STC professional technical communication competition.

This year we are exchanging our submissions with the Texas Lone Star chapter. (Some chapters exchange entries with other chapters for judging. This practice improves the quality of judging and avoids conflict of interest within the chapter.)

Judging Forms

Click here to obtain the Judging Forms & Files.

(We use the international forms and files for our local competition. Click the above link and scroll down to the Judging Forms and Files section).

Judge Training

We put on a workshop to help our judges learn how to give appropriate and valuable feedback.

Saturday, October 10, 2009, 1-3PM

Location: TIES, Larpenteur Room

Consensus Judging

Teams get together to agree on ratings/awards and drop off judged entries.

Saturday, November 14, 2009; 10:30a to 12:30p

Location: Community Room at the Lunds in Uptown

If you have any questions, or to sign up to judge, contact Pat Overbo.