The definition for Fully Developed in the judges guide is "An evaluation state for Engineering Notebooks. All notebooks with a score of two points or higher in the first four criteria of the Engineering Notebook Rubric should be considered Fully Developed as this would outline a single iteration of the Engineering Design Process." As it is written, the definition states that all notebooks that have a 2 or higher in the first four criteria of the notebook rubric should be deemed fully developed, but it doesn't necessarily say that a 2 or higher is REQUIRED in the first four criteria in order to be deemed fully developed. Another EP stated to me that fully developed notebooks are not required to have a 2 or higher on the first 4 criteria of the notebook. The claim was that, according to the grammatical wording, they must be counted as FD if they are 2 or higher, but can be considered FD if they don't have 2 or higher on the first four criteria. Question: Is a 2 or higher on the first four criteria of the notebook rubric required in order for a notebook to be considered fully developed?
Judging
2615: Fully developed notebooks (clarification of Q&A 2610)
Answered by Competition Judging Committee
The idea of "Fully Developed" is that at minimum, the notebook describes a single iteration of the engineering design process (defined by the first 4 criteria on the Engineering Notebook Rubric).
With the way the rubric is written, teams scoring a 0-1 score in the first 4 criteria are lacking evidence of any documentation related to that step of the Engineering Design Process.
As such teams who are not able to score at least 2 points in each of these steps cannot be considered to have a complete documentation of an iteration engineering design process, and thus cannot be considered "Fully Developed".