Results of the RMBS Contest 2024

All students and professionals were included in the contest. And everybody attending the conference was invited to judge both presentations and posters, regardless of whether the presenter or the judge were a student.

Due to some issues still present with the digital interface of the journal review process, again no written competition was run this year.

At the symposium, there were 10 posters, but only one student was there presenting her work. Therefore, the poster contest was canceled and the student poster together with the eight student presentations (presented by 12 students) were combined into a single student oral competition with just a best winner. For the professional contest, 27 presentations were judged.

20 judges expressed their preferences in the competition. Not all presenters were evaluated by the same judges and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each presenter was judged by at least 10 judges. The scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each presentation was the average of the normalized scores. After the scores were tallied up, the participants were divided into student and professional groups and the winners decided.

For the special awards, four judges were involved. Each judge subjectively selected and ranked up to five students as the possible winners of their special award.