Though none of the plans are ideal as they stand today (and some of them represent only the germ of an idea), evaluated and addressed together as part of a coordinated effort, they could begin to form a blueprint for making our cities more efficient, sustainable and livable.
But what has been lost, proponents of local science fairs say, is the potential to expose a much broader swath of American teenagers to the scientific process: to test an idea, evaluate evidence, ask a question about how the world works -- and perhaps discover how difficult it can be to find an answer.
For a peer review, a wise step to take is to have your idea evaluated by others.
This will include offering up the city of Birmingham as a 'testing ground' for trailing new ideas, evaluating existing initiatives or providing excellent engagement opportunities at neighbourhood, local or city-region level.
But it also lets designers speed through ideas, evaluating but skipping wild ones without wasting time: "You can look at all these weird corner cases, and explore those very quickly".
ALUMNI EXPERTISE Hamilton College uses a team of alumni to come up with investment ideas, evaluate managers and plead the endowment's cause.
The outputs of FFE are the ideas evaluated and are the input of NPD.
These 60 finalists get a full day with judges to be asked in-depth questions and have their ideas evaluated.
This research work offers a first review of implemented methodologies for the categorisation of detected oil spills, together with the proposal of explorative ideas evaluated by the European Group of Experts on satellite Monitoring of sea-based oil Pollution (EGEMP).
Such gatherings may be aimed at identifying priorities and concerns, generating new policy or other ideas, and evaluating existing ideas for policy change [ 84].
Balk at the idea of evaluating or firing someone?
