Hosting a conference?
So, im a director of a research event. th clib president just told me to host a conference with the research projects that our club has (research club) we are all A-level students. most of them did not have any research experience. most of the team members feel like we should host this as a competition and open to all the other external schools and invite external prof/ judge for “review and connection”. In my opinion they only did this so that they can look better on your ECA and feel more achieving however from a research perspective I do not think this is the right move. I think it should only be a conference that held within schools for only school students. hear me out first I do not think that the research are original. they are mostly just patching work from here and there with no research gap n mostly just summarise content from different research papers. second of all they have no experience and most of them also did not contact any mentor or professors hence the levels are really unmatchedwith one or two team that has contacted professor successfully and actually obtained readings with proper guidance and technique. so all the problems are like unclear research structure, very weak and vague survey design, vague method and not original. If you were in my position would you host this as just a conference and open to only school members so students can have a platform to showcase their work or would you host this as a competition and invite external judges and students to gain connections and showcase their work to more students which I think would be quite a waste of time even for the external judges/ professors