Meghan Howes
Virginia Tech
Emma Moran
VT-WFU SBES
Arun Kailasan
University of Virginia
Tracye Lawyer
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Angelia Garner
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jillian Urban
Wake Forest University
Elizabeth Fievesohn
VT-WFU SBES
Thomas Ruscher
Virginia Tech
Christina Seimetz
Virginia Tech
Matthew Dowden
Virginia Tech
Karen Joyce
Wake Forest University
Nick Johnson
VT-WFU SBES
Vanessa Alphonse
Virginia Tech
11 professionals participated in the contest, with one professional presenting two papers. For the written competition, the same criteria as the student's written competitions applied.
At the symposium, 6 presentations and 4 posters were judged (two professionals could not attend the conference and were excluded from the competition and one professional presented two posters). 4 students expressed their preferences in the professional presentation competition and 3 in the professional poster competition. The scores were again normalized for each student and the total score for each professional was the average of the normalized scores.
Alex Iwaskiw
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Alexis Wickwire
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Sri Kumar
RMBS
8 professionals participated in the contest. For the written competition, the same criteria as the student's written competitions applied.
At the symposium, 5 presentations and 2 posters were judged. Four students expressed their preferences in the professional competition. Not all professionals were evaluated by the same students and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each professional was judged by at least 2 students. The scores were again normalized for each judge and the total score for each professional was the average of the normalized scores. Since the number of professionals participating in the contest was very small, the presentation and poster awards were combined in one oral award.