Everyone's a winner!
The ThinkQuest competition generates lots of happy winners whose websites receive awards and prizes in recognition of their efforts.
But you do not have to be a prize winner to have your work recognised. All successful websites that meet the judging criteria are included in the Thinkquest Library for that year - a worthwhile reward in itself!
Judging Process
Once the competition is closed, all websites pass through an extensive round of international online judging, involving teachers or those involved in a learning resource capacity from locations around the world. On average, websites are marked and commented upon by 10 judges in the first round.
Sadly, some websites are judged not to be eligible for further judging if they are incomplete, suffering from technical glitches, hosting plagiarised content or devoid of citations [see the full evaluation criteria]. Websites must also be accompanied by a site and team profile providing background to the project, the team members and contingency planning.
All websites that pass through the first round of judging are eventually published in the ThinkQuest Library. The top scoring websites go on to be judged in the smaller second international round held at the Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores, California [pictured top right], from which the international winners are chosen.
Scores from the international first round determined which sites were judged in the UK competition's second round in London, by a panel invited from DCSF, Becta, TDA, General Teaching Council, FutureLab, Learning and Teaching Scotland and the SSAT.
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