APEGA Science Olympics Scoring System

The APEGA Science Olympics is an annual competition that relies on a large volunteer base to evaluate student teams. Currently, the events use a paper-based judging process, distributing clipboards and scoring sheets to more than 100 judges to assess approximately 300 teams. After the event, all paper forms must be collected and manually entered and processed, resulting in significant administrative overhead and delays in producing results and providing feedback to students.
The manual review process introduces several challenges beyond inefficiency. Judges have limited ability to review or correct scores once submitted, making error correction difficult and time consuming, at the limited points where it’s available at all. Additionally, last-minute changes (such as a volunteer no-showing on the day) require manual reassignment of judges to teams, creating confusion and further increasing administrative burden. These issues all together lead to delayed feedback, increased risk of data errors (including missed teams), and overall, a process that does not scale well as the competition grows.

Faculty Supervisor:

Mahmoud Elsaadany;Shokry Shamseldin

Student:

Partner:

Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

MacEwan University

Program: