Badges
2023 IVSS: Badges
In order to develop STEM professional skills and be entered in the stipend drawing for the GLOBE Annual Meeting, students need to earn a minimum of two of the optional/additional virtual badges. To earn these badges, you can select up to three badges listed below and write about how you earned them in your IVSS report.
In order to receive these virtual badges, you must display the relevant skills associated with each badge and show evidence of these skills in your IVSS report. To demonstrate these skills, you can include a summary of how you earned each badge in your report.
I AM A STUDENT RESEARCHER
All students who submit a report to the IVSS receive an "I am a Student Researcher" badge. As such, students can earn up to four badges total.
Note: The "I am a Student Researcher" badge does not count towards the two badges needed for the Earth Day drawing at IVSS. In order to be entered into the drawing, you need to earn at least two of the "Optional Badges" listed below.
Optional International Virtual Science Symposium Badges
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I AM A COLLABORATOR All team members are listed including students from the same school or schools from around the world, along with clearly defined roles, how these roles support one another, and descriptions of each student's contribution. The descriptions clearly indicate the advantages of the collaboration. If the students collaborated with students from another school, describe how working with other schools improved the research.
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I MAKE AN IMPACT The report clearly describes how a local issue led to the research questions or makes connections between local and global impacts. The students need to clearly describe or show how the research contributed to a positive impact on their community through making recommendations or taking action based on findings.
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I AM A STEM PROFESSIONAL The report clearly describes collaboration with a STEM professional that enhanced the research methods, contributed to improved precision, and supported more sophisticated analyses and interpretations of results.
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I AM AN ENGINEER The report uses student-generated sources of evidence to describe an engineering problem, looks at solutions through engineering, or optimizes a design to address a real-world problem, and describes the potential impact of the engineering principles on the environment.
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I AM A DATA SCIENTIST The report includes in-depth analysis of students' own data as well as other data sources. Students discuss limitations of these data, make inferences about past, present, or future events, or use data to answer questions or solve problems in the represented system. Consider data from other schools or data available from other databases.
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I AM A STEM STORYTELLER The report describes or shows how the students shared the story of their research in a creative way. This could be via a dramatic interpretation, a blog, Instagram post, artist rendering, or any other way to creatively share what the students learned.
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